Professors Sophie D’Amours and Mikael Rönnqvist would like to invite you to submit an abstract to the 15th Symposium for Systems Analysis in Forest Resources. The theme for this year’s conference is Analytics for Sustainable Forest Value Chains. The event will be held from August 19th to August 21th, 2013, at the Hôtel Château Laurier in Quebec City, Canada.

Please submit your 2-page abstract by March 1st, 2013 using the submission page on the conference website: http://www.ssafr2013.com. The 2nd call for papers is attached to this email.

You will find also attached to this email a call for the organization of special sessions aimed at junior researchers (PhDs, postdocs and research associates).

You are more than welcome to share this call for papers with your colleagues and students.

On behalf of the organizing committee,

Marc-André

Marc-André Carle
Coordonnateur // Coordinator
Chaire de recherche du Canada sur la planification de réseaux de création de valeur durable dans l’industrie forestière // Canada Research Chair in Planning Sustainable Forest Value Networks
Pavillon Adrien-Pouliot, bur. 3348
Université Laval
Tél. : (418) 656-2131 poste 7648
Courriel / Email: marc-andre.carle@forac.ulaval.ca
Social media : Twitter – @ORNinja // Blog : www.thequestforoptimality.com

CompSust’12

Location: Biocenter, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark

Date: July 5-6, 2012 (master class held July 4, 2012)

The conference focuses on computational methods for balancing environmental, economic, and societal needs for a sustainable future. Through talks, discussions, poster sessions, and invited talks, the conference program will investigate the major problem domains that impact global sustainability, those technologies and processes that offer the greatest opportunity to increase sustainability in these domains, and the fundamental computational methods that support these technologies and processes. Participants include representatives from national and international research institutions and government agencies. CompSust’12 will also introduce a new Master Class component, providing high level tutorials in mainstream computational sustainability research directions.

Scientific Conference IMPLEMENTATION OF DSS INTO THE FORESTRY PRACTICE

Deadline for abstract submission is 15.02.2012

/Ola Eriksson (chair)

6th International Congress on Environmental Modelling and Software (iEMSs), 1 – 5 July 2012, Leipzig, Germany. For more information, see http://www.iemss.org/sites/iemss2012/workshops_E.html.

From the COST Office:

The European Cooperation in Science and Technology (COST) and theEuropean Forest Institute (EFI) are coordinating “COST Strategic Workshops: Foresight on Future Demand for Forest-based Products and Services”. Part of the exercise in 2010-2011 is to collect expert perceptions about the futures of the forest-based sector in a long time horizon.

You have now a chance to contribute to the forest-based sector futures 2050 by giving your input to the Internet Survey “Foresight on Future Demand for Forest-based Products and Services” at www.edelphi.fi/en/groups/COSTforesight/.

This is an explorative exercise to challenge our thinking about the future and the different development pathways there might open in the future for forests and the forest-based sector as a whole. Although the forest sector has been active in forward looking studies and analyses – such as growth trends, market analysis etc. – there is a need for more demand-side oriented exercise involving actors and stakeholders also outside the core forest sector.

The Internet Survey is open until December 17, 2010 and there is open access for registrations. Please feel free to distribute this invitation to key organisations and individuals you want to participate in this exercise.

The survey results will be used for defining research needs for the forest-based sector and related sectors, and the results will be disseminated to policy and decision makers in two conferences in the autumn 2011. The data and information collected will be made available for those contributing to the survey. Please, see the short introduction at the Survey website – and if you have any further questions, do not hesitate to contact Ms. Paivi Pelli at EFI (paivi.pelli @ efi.int).

Share you perceptions and learn about how others see the future, the opportunities and challenges ahead us!

A cross-disciplinary dialogue on sustainable development of regional resources; see more on first circular.

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In preparations for the meeting information has been sent out by mail to participants of the FORSYS COST Action. This posting is to make you observe that deliveries of this kind sometimes end up in the junk mail box. In short the information contains the following:

• Registration to DSFM 2010 is open and should be  completed NO LATER THAN FRIDAY 19^th MARCH. This is because I would like to send out a notification as soon as possible on reimbursements.
• A reimbursement pre-notification has been sent out to ensure that reimbursements are allocated so that papers and posters can be presented. A “secure” frame of reimbursements is also allocated to each country to be coordinated by the MCs. That means that you should get in touch with your MC as soon as possible to announce your intention to register.

See you in Lisbon/Ola Eriksson, Action chair

Te international conference entitled ”Forestry: Bridge to the Future” is dedicated to the 85th anniversary of higher forestry education in Bulgaria and it will take place in Sofia during the period 13-15 May, 2010. You will there find topics related to FORSYS. The conference is organized  by the University of Forestry, Sofia. (For more information see Useful_Information-2.pdf, or contact Dr Tzvetan Zlatanov, E-mail: tmzlatanov@gmail.com.)