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Special Issue "Non-Wood Forest Products Management: Inventory, Planning, Governance, Marketing and Trade"

The International Union of Forest Research Organizations (IUFRO Units 4.04.04—Sustainable Forest Management Scheduling and 5.11-Non-Wood Forest Products, IUFRO Task Force on Unlocking the Bioeconomy and Non-Timber Forest Products) as well as the 19th Symposium on Systems Analysis in Forest Resources (SSAFR 2021) are sponsoring this Special Issue of Forests (http://www.mdpi.com/journal/forests).

We welcome the submission of manuscripts for publication in this Forests special issue (SI). There are a myriad of opportunities to unlock the full potential of NWFPs, such as creating new knowledge and tools to optimize the sustainable provision and profitability of NWFPs, fostering the development of market conditions for NWFPs, and developing economic and governance strategies for the better management of wild forest products—particularly in low-income countries. Thus, this SI aims at contributing to the dissemination of research endeavors involving the development of models, methods, processes, and decision support tools to address the inventory, planning, harvesting, governance, certification, marketing, and trade of NWFPs. This will be influential to strengthen the NWFP knowledge base and of research strategies to support the full encapsulation of NWFPs in the framework of the sustainable management of forest ecosystems. Papers submitted for publication in this Special Issue will undergo a rigorous peer review process with the aim of prompt and wide dissemination of research results and applications.

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 December 2022.

More information at:   https://www.mdpi.com/journal/forests/special_issues/nonwood_forest_products

Publications

• Borges, J. G., J. R. Gonzalez-Olabarria and Yu Wei (Eds.) 2022 Wildfire Management and Decision Support. Special Issue of Frontiers in Forests and Global Change
  https://www.frontiersin.org/research-topics/15410/wildfire-management-and-decision-support#overview
   
• Borges J.G., H. Vacik, K. M. Reynolds, L. C. E. Rodriguez, and E. Z. Baskent. (Eds.) 2020. Decision Support to Address Multiple Ecosystem Services in Forest Management PlanningSpecial Issue of Forests (ISSN: 1999-4907) -  https://www.mdpi.com/journal/forests/special_issues/Decision_Support_to_Ecosystem_Services
   
• Garcia-Gonzalo J., Borges J.G., Nordström E.M., Monsu, N. (Eds.) 2019. Models and tools for integrated forest management and policy analysis - Special Issue of Forest Policy and Economics (ISSN: 1389-9341) -  https://www.sciencedirect.com/journal/forest-policy-and-economics/vol/103  
   
• Borges, J.G., Nordström E.M., Rodriguez, L. C. E. and Seifert, T. (Eds. and Coords. of 4.04.04) 2017. Decision Support for Forest Ecosystem Management Sustainability - Special Issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050) - http://www.mdpi.com/journal/sustainability/special_issues/forest_ecosystem_management
   
• COST Action FP0804 Decision support systems for Sustainable Forest Management: FORSYS 2013 Conference; Umeå, Sweden, 24-26 April 2013. Units involved: 4.00.00, 4.04.04. Scandinavian Journal of Forest Research Volume 29, Supplement 1, November 2014. http://www.tandfonline.com/toc/sfor20/29/sup1#.VM0EwxFybcc
   
• Borges, J.G., Nordström E.M., Garcia-Gonzalo, J., Hujala T. and Trasobares, A. (Eds.) 2014. Computer-based tools for supporting forest management. The experience and the expertise world-wide. Dept of Forest Resource Management, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences. Umeå.  Sweden, 503 p. Link: http://pub.epsilon.slu.se/11417/
   
• Borges, J. G., L. Diaz-Balteiro, M. E. McDill and L. C. E. Rodriguez (Eds) 2014 The management of industrial forest plantations. Theoretical foundations and applications. Springer, Managing Forest Ecosystems Vol. 33, 543 p. - Link:
  http://www.amazon.com/The-Management-Industrial-Forest-Plantations/dp/9401788987/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1411216938&sr=8-3&keywords=the+management+of+industrial+plantations
   

Links to other information resources

• Community of Practice of Forest Management Decision Support Systems, http://www.forestdss.org/CoP/
   
• International Research Projects
  
  NOBEL - Novel business models and mechanisms for the sustainable supply of and payment for forest ecosystem services, https://nobel.boku.ac.at/
  ALTERFOR - Alternative models for future forest management, https://www.alterfor-project.eu/
  FORSYS – Forest Management Decision Support Systems, http://www.cost.eu/COST_Actions/fps/FP0804
  FIRE RES - Innovative technologies & socio-ecological-economic solutions forfire resilient territories in Europe, https://fire-res.eu/
  WILDFOOD - Eating the wild: Improving the value-chain of Mediterranean Wild Food Products, https://wildfood.ctfc.cat/the-project/
  
   
• International Education Projects
  
  MEDfOR – Mediterranean Forestry and Natural Resources Management, http://www.medfor.eu/
  SuFoRun - Models and decision SUpport tools for integrated FOrest policy development under global change and associated Risk and UNcertainty, http://suforun.ctfc.cat/
  DecisionES - Decision Support for the Supply of Ecosystem Services under Global Change, https://decisiones.ctfc.cat/