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Digital Coverage/Summary
IISD Reporting Services (IISD RS) has produced daily web coverage, daily reports, and a summary report from this meeting. To download our repots, please click below on the HTML or PDF icons.
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XXIII IUFRO World Congress
23-28 August 2010 | Seoul, Republic of Korea |
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Highlights for Wednesday, 25 August 2010 |
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Daily web highlights |
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IUFRO delegates with the IUFRO Congress mascot mixing a giant serving of "Bibimbap".
Photo courtesy of Reem Hajjar. |
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On Wednesday, participants dug deep into technical issues following a plenary keynote speech by José Joaquín Campos Arce, Director General of Centro Agronómico Tropical de Investigación y Enseñanza (CATIE). The day continued with three sub-plenaries on forest genetic resources, forest monitoring for climate change, and forest biomass utilization. Thirty-nine technical sessions met, covering all nine Congress themes, along with multiple side and business events, as well as the final official poster session. |
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José Joaquín Campos Arce, CATIE presented on integrating scales and sectors to foster sustainable livelihood, landscapes and forests. |
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Sub-Plenary Sessions |
Conservation and sustainable use of forest genetic resources |
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L-R: Panel members representing different geographical perspectives include Mette Loyche Wilkie, FAO; Ben Chikamei, Kenya Forestry Research Institute; Peter Mayer, IUFRO; José Joaquín Campos Arce, CATIE; Joon Hwan Shin, Korea Forest Research Institute; Klaus-Hermann von Wilpert, Forest Research Institute Baden-Wüttemberg, Germany; George Foster, US Forest Service. |
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Forest biomass utilization for bio-energy: technology, economics and environment |
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Xueyong Ren, Beijing Forestry University, explains fast pyrolysis for the production of biochar, bio-oil, and combustible gas. |
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Deborah Page-Dumroese, Michigan Technological University, encourages greater attention on forest soil health during biomass harvesting. |
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Han-Sup Han, Humboldt State University, reviewed the U.S.' efficiency in collecting and transporting forest biomass |
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Technical Sessions |
Managing Asian bamboo forest in a changing world |
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Yueqin Shin, Zhejiang Forestry University, detailed an analysis of economic, employment and income-distribution effects of bamboo in China’s Zhejiang Province. |
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Ramasamy Yasodha, Institute of Forest Genetics and Tree Breeding, India, discussed micropropogation methods for bamboo, noting that continued high costs have limited commercial opportunities to date. |
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Masaharu Sakai, Forestry and Forest Products Research Institute, Japan, described research on bamboo’s encroachment on Japanese conifer forests. |
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To what extent can payments for forest environmental services be pro-poor? |
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Stephen Garnett, Charles Darwin University, on behalf of Pham Thu Thuy, discussing findings of a pro-poor payments for ecosystem services case study in Vietnam. |
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Lisa Petheram, Charles Darwin University, sharing lessons from community participation on design of payments for ecosystem services near a Vietnamese national park. |
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Terry Sunderland, CIFOR, moderated the session. |
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Advances in forest pest surveillance and monitoring |
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Identifying and monitoring old growth forests in boreal, temperate and Mediterranean environments |
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Rod J. Keenan, The University of Melbourne, discussed the events leading to Australia’s policies for old growth protection. |
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Jan Bannister, University of Freiburg, reviewed his work investigating the development of swamp and upland stands of old growth Pilgerodendron uviferum forests in Patagonia. |
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Grant Wardell-Johnson, Curtin University, discussed the conservation of tall open forests in south west and south east Australia, given the pressures of climate change. |
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Photos from the Poster session and around the Congress |
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