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Hello from IUFRO Division 4!

Meet Your Division 4 Officers

Over the next few newsletters, we will introduce all of the Division 4 officers to you. A full list of your Division 4 officers can be downloaded for your convenience, or view the full list of units for Division 4.

Mariana Melnykovych  mariana.melnykovych(at)ukr.net Deputy Coordinator, 4.05.05, Social innovation and entrepreneurship Current Position: Guest Scientist, Economics and Social Sciences Research Unit, Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research, WSL, Switzerland Research Interests: multifunctional forestry, sustainable forest management, forest ecosystem services and participatory governance, innovations

Marco Marchetti marchettimarco(at)unimol.it Deputy Coordinator, 4.03.03 and 4.04.07 Current Position: Professor and Chair of Forest Management and Conservation, University of Molise, Campobasso, Italy Research Interests: multiresources inventory and forest mapping, forest management and land planning, fire monitoring, and biodiversity assessment

Lyudmyla Maksymiv lyudmyla.maksymiv(at)nltu.edu.ua Deputy Coordinator 4.05.00 Current Position: Associate Professor, Department of Ecological Economics, Ukrainian National Forestry University Research Interests: environmental accounting, environmental management, ecological economics

Peter Marshall peter.marshall(at)ubc.ca Coordinator, 4.01.03 Current Position: Professor and Director, Forest Resources Management Program, Department of Forest Resources Management, Faculty of Forestry, University of British Columbia, Canada Research Interests: forest measurements, sampling design, growth and yield

Maria Nijnik maria.nijnik(at)hutton.ac.uk Coordinator, 4.05.05, Social innovation and entrepreneurship Current position: Principal Scientist of the James Hutton Institute  Research Interests: multifunctional forestry, valuation of ecosystem services, resilience of socio-ecological systems, social innovation, and entrepreneurship

Virginia Morales Olmos vmolmos(at)gmail.com Deputy Coordinator, 4.05.03 Current Position: Adjunct Professor, Department of Economics, Northeast region, University of the Republic, Tacuarembó, Uruguay Research interests: Forest Economics, Forest Finance, Economic Impact

Davide Pettenella davide.pettenella(at)unipd.it Deputy Coordinator, 4.05.02 Current Position: Professor, Department Land, Environment, Agriculture and Forestry, University of Padova, Italy Research Interests: forest economics, forest products marketing, social and environmental responsibility in forestry

Arne Pommerening arne.pommerening(at)slu.se Coordinator, 4.01.06 Current Position: Professor in Mathematical Statistics Applied to Forest Sciences, Faculty of Forest Sciences, Department of Forest Ecology and Management, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Umeå, Sweden Research Interests: quantitative ecology, plant growth analysis, woodland structure, forest biometrics, theoretical forest science

Upcoming Division 4 Meetings

Ecosystems in the Conditions of Climate Change: Biological Productivity and Remote Sensing 28-29 September 2021 Volgatech University, Rusia Deadline for manuscripts: 31 July, 2021 IUFRO World Day - Digital Forest Science Forum 2021 Online 28-29 September, 2021 Managerial, Social and Environmental Aspects of the Forest-based Sector for Sustainable Development: 40th Anniversary Conference for 4.05.00 4-6 October, 2021 Brno, Czech Republic Conference details Socio-ecological Conflicts in Forest Management: Risks of (not) Adapting? 2-4 June, 2022 Nancy, France Division 4.04.07 19th Symposium on Systems Analysis in Forest Resources 24-27 July, 2022 Estes Park, Colorado Divisions 4.04.04, 3.04.00 ForestSAT 2020 12-16 September, 2022 Krakow, Poland Division 4.02.05

Scholarship & Job Opportunities

Assistant Professor of Forest Economics and Management, University of Tennessee PhD Graduate Research Assistantship in Forest Management and Economics, Mississippi State University MS Graduate Research Assistantship in Forest Biometrics, Mississippi State University Forest Biometrics Graduate Assistantships, Virginia Tech University MS Research Assistantship with USDA Forest Service FIA Tree Utilization Project, University of Tennessee PhD Research Assistantship, Climate Smart Forestry Fellow, University of Tennessee

Call for Papers

Call for submissions to a special issue of Forests: Spatial Decision Support for Forest Management and Policy Formulation. Deadline for manuscript submissions: 19 September, 2021

Recent Work

Unit 4.05.05, Social Innovation and Entrepreneurship, organized a session titled "The power of social innovation in mountain areas to steer a sustainable governance of nature" for an international scientific conference, the 6th Forum Carpaticup – Linking the Environmental, Political and Societal Aspects for Carpathian Sustainabilit". The conference will be held from 21-25 June, 2021, in the conference center of Mendel University in Brno, Czech Republic.

Submitted by Maria Nijnik

Is There a Scope for Social Innovation in Ukrainian Forestry? An Institutional Analysis and Reconfiguration Framework for Sustainability Research on Post-transition Forestry: a focus on Ukraine An assessment of the impact of social innovation in the context of community forestry in the Scottish Highlands Can social innovation make changes in European and Mediterranean marginalized areas? An impact assessment in agriculture, fisheries, forestry, and rural development Reconstructive Social Innovation Cycles in Women-Led Initiatives in Rural Areas

Submitted by Juergen Boehmer

Global patterns and climatic controls of forest structural complexity

Submitted by Vitor Hoeflich

Structure and conduct of the furniture market in the Municipality of Sena Madureira

Other Forestry News

Seminar #4 of the International Tree Mortality Network, an initiative of the IUFRO Task Force on Monitoring Trends and Patterns of Global Tree Mortality, is now available online. Watch the seminar on YouTube.

Congratulations! Virginia Morales Olmos has been named Delegate from the University of the Republic (Uruguay) in the timber development network of Rivera (REDEMA). Vitor Hoeflich has been named Head of the Rural Economics and Extension Department and a member of the research committee of the Agrarian Sciences Sector, Federal University of Parana.

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