Bilbao, Spain, 3-7 October 2006
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. This is the subject of a major conference co-hosted by CIFOR in October this year. The conference will consider:
- How far plantations substitute or augment ecosystem goods and services from native forests
- How plantations can be managed to optimise the provision of such ecosystem goods and services as habitat, clean water and non-timber forest products
Presentations will address topics like the role of plantations in biodiversity conservation, markets for ecosystem goods and services from planted forests, interactions between plantations and other land uses and conversion of plantations to semi-natural forests.
CIFOR will publish keynote papers in a book and selected contributions will be published in the European Journal of Forest Research, the Canadian Journal of Forest Research, and Land Use and Water Resources Research. More information atwww.waldbau.uni-freiburg.de/bilbao.html
Sponsored by the Economic Cross Cultural Programme between the EU and India, the International Union of Forest Research Organisations (IUFRO), CIFOR, the World Conservation Union (IUCN), and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). Organised by Networking Forest Plantations in a Crowded World (NETFOP) through the Institute of Silviculture at Freiburg University and the European Institute of Cultivated Forests (IEFC). AF, JB