Ecosystem Goods and Services from Planted Forests Conference


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3*-7 October, Bilbao, Spain
Papers invited, registration open

While the world’s total area of forests is declining, plantations are increasing rapidly. This has major implications for the future of ecosystem goods and services. These implications are the subject of a major conference CIFOR is co-hosting in October 2006.

As native forests disappear or become less accessible, people are becoming more reliant on plantations for ecosystem goods and services. The Ecosystem Goods and Services from Planted Forests conference will consider:

How far plantations substitute or augment ecosystem goods and services from native forest
How plantations can be managed to optimise the provision of such ecosystem goods and services as habitat, clean water and non-timber forest products?

People are invited to make oral presentations and posters about the following:

Ecosystem services from plantations
The role of plantations in biodiversity conservation
Plantations and rural livelihoods
Interactions between plantations and other land uses in the landscape
Assessment methods for ecosystem goods and services from plantations
Design and management principles to optimize the provision of ecosystem goods and services from plantation forests
Forest policies to enhance the provision of ecosystem goods and services from plantations
Conversion of plantations to semi-natural forests
Standards for sustainable plantation management
Markets for ecosystem services from plantation forests

CIFOR will publish keynote papers in a book and selected contributions will be published in the journals ‘European Journal of Forest Research’ and ‘Land Use and Water Resources Research’

Abstracts due: 15 May 2006
Deadline for early registration: 30 June 2006

Details for submissions and registration www.waldbau.uni-freiburg.de/bilbao.html

Part of a larger congress on the Role of Planted Forests in Sustainable Development, the conference is sponsored by the Economic Cross Cultural Programme between the EU and India, IUFRO (International Union of Forest Research Organisations), CIFOR and IUCN (The World Conservation Union). It is organised by the NETFOP project (Networking Forest Plantations in a Crowded World) through the Institute of Silviculture at Freiburg University and the European Institute of Cultivated Forests (IEFC - project centre of the European Forest Institute)

* Please note: the event will now start on October 3 not October 4

Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR)
CIFOR advances human wellbeing, environmental conservation and equity by conducting research to inform policies and practices that affect forests in developing countries. CIFOR is one of 15 centres within the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR).