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International Symposium and Workshop on Tropical Peatlands “Carbon-Climate-Human Interactions: Carbon Pools, Mitigation, Restoration and Wise Use” and Indonesian National Seminar on “Pressing Peatland Issues”.
August 23 - 1 September 2007, Indonesia
Call for Papers, Posters and Participants:
23-24 August 2007: Pre-symposium field excursion in Central Kalimantan, Indonesia to visit natural, degraded and developed peatland.
27-29 August 2007: International Symposium and Workshop in Hyatt Regency Hotel, Yogyakarta, Indonesia.
30-31 August 2007: Indonesian National Seminar and Workshop in Hyatt Regency Hotel, Yogyakarta.
31 August and 1 September 2007: Post-symposium field excursion in Riau Sumatra to visit pulp tree plantation on peatland.
Topics:
- Inventory and mapping
- Impacts of land use change and fire
- Monitoring land use change, fire and illegal logging
- Fire awareness, control and community fire management
- Carbon pools, greenhouse gas emissions and climate relations
- Carbon and Kyoto: peat carbon financing mechanisms
- Restoration of degraded peatland (e.g. the former Mega Rice Project area): options, constraints and problems
- Sustainable management - applying wise use principles
- Management for wildlife conservation
- Development for agriculture, forestry (including plantations) and settlement
- Hydrology and water management
- Natural resource utilization by local communities
Funding Sponsors:
- EU RESTORPEAT Project
- EU CARBOPEAT Project
- Embassy of Finland, Jakarta
- Embassy of the Netherlands, Jakarta
Organisers:
- Department of Soil Science, Faculty of Agriculture, Gadjah Mada University,
- Indonesian Peat Association (International Peat Society)
- BAPPENAS
Further information:
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