IUFRO-UNRI Urban Forestry Research

13th EUROPEAN FORUM ON URBAN FORESTRY – ‘Urban Forests meet Urban People’
Tulln, Austria, 25-29 May, 2010

Click here the first announcement for the 13th EFUF, to be held in the Austrian town of Tulln near Vienna.  Abstracts of up to 250 words can be submitted until February 22, 2010, under the conference’s seven sub-themes.

These include:

1. Different urban forests for different urban people
2. Urban forests for locals and for newcomers
3. Children and teenagers as urban forest users
4. Quality of recreation experience in urban forests
5. Climate change and urban green
6. Managing urban forest conflicts
7. Developing opportunities for adventurous forest recreation in highly artificial urban environments

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URBAN FORESTRY AT THE IUFRO WORLD CONGRESS 2010
Seoul, Republic of Korea, 23-28 August 2010

IUFRO’s main congress will have as its theme ‘Forests for the Future –

Sustaining Society and the Environment’. You can read more about the event here: http://www.iufro2010.com/. Urban forestry will be well represented at the congress, with the following sessions/meetings:

– Subplenary session on ‘Promoting urban forest services in partnership between scientists and communities’ (hosted by IUFRO 6.14.00)

– Technical sessions (2) on ‘Urban Forestry Combating Poverty – Building a Collaborative Stakeholders Dialogue’ (contact persons: Prof. Giovanni Sanesi (sanesi@agr.uniba.it) and Michelle Gauthier of FAO (michelle.gauthier@fao.org).

– Business meeting of IUFRO’s Research Group on Urban Forestry

Unfortunately the deadline for submitting abstracts for IUFRO 2010 has passed, but you can expect a series of interesting sessions.

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INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE FOR URBAN FORESTRY IN CHALLENGING ENVIRONMENTS
Beijing, China, 29 August – 1 September 2010

To maintain sustainable urban forests in cities is the ultimate goal of urban forest management. However, this task can be very challenging for cities facing unfavorable natural or anthropogenic influences. In contrast to extensive studies and discussions on managing urban forests in cities under normal conditions, less information is available for urban foresters in those challenging environments. In Fall 2010, a conference organized by the IUFRO’s Research Group on Urban Forestry (6.14.00) and Beijing Forestry University will bring together scientists, policy makers, practitioners, and concerned citizens to share important findings, innovative science and technologies, and daily experience in dealing with various challenges now and in the future. Also, the benefits of urban forests to people living in challenging environments will be discussed.

Click here to download the first announcement and call for abstracts for this event, which will be organised immediately after the IUFRO World Congress in Seoul, Korea (see above). Deadline for submitting abstracts is April 20, 2009.

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INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE – MANAGING THE URBAN RURAL INTERFACE – STRATEGIES AND TOOLS FOR URBAN DEVELOPMENT AND SUSTAINBLE PERI-URBAN LAND USE
Copenhagen, Denmark, 18-21 October 2010

The conference is organized jointly by the PLUREL project; ASEM 4th Symposium on Urban Forestry; Landscape Tomorrow; Danish Association of Landscape Ecologists; & Danish Architecture Centre. The event is the final event of the PLUREL project: PERI-URBAN LAND USE RELATIONSHIPS – STRATEGIES AND SUSTAINABILITY ASSESSMENT TOOLS FOR URBAN-RURAL LINKAGES funded by the European Commission*s sixth Framework Programme for research (EC FP6 036921).

IUFRO’s Urban Forestry’s group also acts as co-organiser, specifically of the session ‘Urban Forestry and Urban Greening in Developing Countries’. You can read more about this event at www.plurel.net/conference. Abstracts can be submitted until May 1, 2010.