Live-streamed conference: Governing and managing forests for multiple ecosystem services across the globe
Research Centre CAESAR, Bonn
February 26-28
The conference will discuss how major global challenges such as climate change and biodiversity loss affect forests globally, and what can forest governance and management do? How can we deal with rising and changing demands for forest products and ecosystem services due to global population and economic growth, and urbanization?
Contribute to the discussions by using the hashtag #4estEcoServices.
The future of forests managed for our manifold demands – an international perspective
Forests are among our planet’s most important human life-supporting ecosystems, and we have many expectations with regards to the ecosystem services they provide. But: how do major global challenges such as climate change and biodiversity loss affect forests globally, and what can forest governance and management do? How can we deal with rising and changing demands for forest products and ecosystem services due to global population and economic growth, and urbanization?
We will discuss these and more questions in the framework of the international conference “Governing and managing forests for multiple ecosystem services across the globe”, taking place on 26th-28th February Bonn, Germany.
The conference is organized by European Forest Institute in collaboration with SLU and several other international partners. It will bring together ca. 200 international policymakers, practitioners and researchers from different fields, promoting interdisciplinary and inter-generational dialogues.
Together we will explore how trade-offs and synergies between different forest ecosystem services are perceived, governed and managed across Europe and beyond. We will exchange distinct concepts for integrated forest management that tries to meet diverse societal demands. Furthermore, we will discuss how such management concepts impact both forest ecology and economics, and how these are linked to specific outcomes like biodiversity and ecosystem services.
The conference is livestreamed (above), and contributions to the discussions via Twitter using the hashtag #4estEcoServices are welcome.