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XXIII IUFRO World Congress

23-28 August 2010 | Seoul, Republic of Korea
 
Highlights for Friday, 27 August 2010
 
Daily web highlights

IUFRO participants in a group discussion, with the Forest Aviation Headquarters' fire prevention helicopter in the background.
 
IUFRO XXIII World CongressBack in the COEX complex on Friday after a damp day of field trips, participants enthusiastically filled 20 early morning technical sessions before hearing the keynote speech by Nobel Laureate Elinor Ostrom in plenary, who also participated in a sub-plenary on new frontiers of forest economics. The two other sub-plenaries focused on agroforestry: the way forward, and enhancement of service life of wood in an environmentally conscious global society. Another 18 technical sessions met in the afternoon, as well as numerous side events and business events.
Plenary Session
 
   
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Elinor Ostrom, Indiana University and Arizona State University, 2009 Nobel Prize winner in economics, stressed that it was feasible to be multidisciplinary.
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Plenary Chair John Innes, University of British Columbia, emphasized it was time the natural and social sciences worked together.
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Elinor Ostrom accepting a token of appreciation from IUFRO President Don Koo Lee.
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Sub-Plenary Sessions
Agroforestry: the way forward
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Fergus Sinclair, ICRAF, stated that there is a variable level of local knowledge on farm timber.
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P.K. Ramachandran Nair, University of Florida, described development of agroforestry as an approach for poverty alleviation and attainment of Millennium Development Goals as well as for carbon sequestration.
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Shibu Jose, University of Missouri, presented on North American agroforestry practices.
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Urs Fischbacher, University of Konstanz, explaining benefits of how economic experiments can be used to help meet long-term forest objectives.
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Karl-Gustaf Löfgren, Umeå University, talking about how economic modeling in the forest sector may be able to overcome the typical "Lucas critique" pitfall.
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David Laband, Auburn University, presented on the effects of political rent seeking activities on the forests.
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L-R: Panelists fielding audience questions on common pool resource issues with Karl-Gustaf Löfgren, Umeå University; Urs Fischbacher, University of Konstanz; David Laband; Auburn University, and Elinor Ostrom, Indiana University and Arizona State University.
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Enhancement of service life of wood in an environmentally conscious global society
 
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Andrew Wong, Universiti Malaysia Sarawak, discussed ways to couple wood protection and wood durability, either via wood treatments or using naturally durable species.
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Gyu-Hyeok Kim, Korea University, discussed work on fungi capable of degrading wood treated with copper chromium arsenate.
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D. Pascal Kamdem, University of Michigan, reviewed the development of micronized copper preservatives, stressing their application requires careful attention to the pH of wood species.
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Technical Sessions
Competing roles of forests in climate change mitigation
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Hans Verkerk, European Forest Institute, said European forest sinks will decline under both baseline and increased harvesting scenarios.
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Dodik Ridho Nurrochmat, Bogor Agricultural University, explaining how a strong REDD scheme would create negative effects on communities associated with, but not directly practicing, logging.
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Lauri Valsta, Univeristy of Helsinki, talked about integrating forest management, wood products, and biofuels into climate change mitigation programs.
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Green forest products marketing and business management
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Lei Wang, University of Helsinki, introduced the non-western "harmony" approach to Corporate Social Responsibility.
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Francisco Aguilar, University of Missouri, detailed a study of how product origins, certification agencies, and timber prices affect market shares and UK and US consumer preferences.
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Masami Shiba, University of Kyoto, presented on the use of certification as a marketing tool for Japanese pulp and paper companies.
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Managing the data deluge: the challenge of emerging technologies
 
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Roger Mills, for Gillian Petrokofsky, Oxford University, discussed an evidence-based approach to forestry that involves systematic attention to defining questions, reviewing the relevant evidence, and disseminating of results.
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Vanda Santos, FAO, outlined an FAO web-based forestry education platform.
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Andrea Wirth, Oregon State University, discussed the Oregon Spatial Data Library, which provides access to GIS data created and managed by the State of Oregon.
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IUFRO 2010 Poster Award Winner
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Maija Faehnle, University of Helsinki, one of the winners of the IUFRO poster award.
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