Meet Your Division 4 Officers
We are introducing you to all Division 4 officers, a handful at a time. A full list of your Division 4 officers can be downloaded for your convenience, or view the full list of units for Division 4.
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Jordi Garcia-Gonzalo
- j.garcia(at)ctfc.cat
- Deputy Coordinator, 4.04.06
- Current Position: Head of the Landscape Dynamics and Biodiversity Programme at the Forest Sciences and Technology Centre of Catalonia
- Research Interests: forest management, forest planning, development of forest ecosystem management models, and decision support systems
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Vasja Leban
- vasja.leban(at)bf.uni-lj.si
- Deputy Coordinator, 4.05.02
- Current Position: Assistant and specialist adviser, University of Ljubljana, Biotechnical Faculty, Department of Forestry and Renewable Forest Resources, Slovenia
- Research Interests: ecosystem services management and optimization, stakeholder perspectives, forest policy, mixed methods research
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Stjepan Posavec
- sposavec(at)sumfak.hr
- Coordinator, 4.05.02
- Current Position: Professor in Forest Economics, Faculty of Forestry and Wood Technology, University of Zagreb, Croatia, EU
- Research Interests: Forest economics and finance, ecosystem services, environmental economics, marketing in forestry
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Minna Räty
- minna.raty(at)luke.fi
- Deputy Coordinator, 4.03.01
- Current Position: Senior Scientist, Natural Resources Institute Finland (Luke), Helsinki, Finland
- Research Interests: Forest resources, forest management, scenario analysis, forest inventory
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Keith Reynolds
- keith.reynolds2(at)usda.gov
- Coordinator, 4.03.00
- Current Position: Research Forester with the US Department of Agriculture, Forest Service Research, Pacific Northwest Research Station, Corvallis, Oregon
- Research Interests: spatial decision support for environmental analysis and planning related to forest management
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Lydia Rosenkranz
- lydia.rosenkranz(at)thuenen.de
- Deputy Coordinator, 4.05.01
- Current Position: Scientist at Thuenen Institute of International Forestry and Forest Economics, Hamburg, Germany
- Research Interests: economic accounts for forestry, model-based analyses of changed political and economic conditions on the forest industry
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Svetlana Saarela
- svetlana.saarela(at)nmbu.no
- Coordinator, 4.02.06
- Current Position: Researcher, Faculty of Environmental Sciences and Natural Resource Management, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, Ås, Norway
- Research Interests: statistical inferences applied to natural resource surveys, forest biometrics, remote sensing-assisted forest inventories
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Simo Sarkki
- simo.sarkki(at)oulu.fi
- Deputy Coordinator, 4.05.05
- Current Position: Docentship, “anthropology of environmental governance” at University of Oulu, Finland
- Research Interests: science-policy-society interfaces, social innovations, land use in northern areas, qualitative scenarios, and participatory approaches under the broader theme of environmental governance
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Endre Schiberna
- minna.raty(at)luke.fi
- Deputy Coordinator, 4.05.02
- Current Position: Senior researcher, head of Department of Forest Economics, Forest Research Institute, University of Sopron, Hungary
- Research Interests: forest economics and finance, ecosystem services; wild game management economics
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Upcoming Division 4 Meetings
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2nd North American Mensurationists Conference
- 11-14 December 2022
- Portland, Oregon, United States
- Units 4.01.00 and 4.03.00
Forest Mensuration and Modeling Chats webinar
Close-to-Nature Silviculture: Experiments and Modeling for Forestry Practice
- 7-9 February 2023
- Online discussion conference
- Divisions 1.00.00, 4.00.00 and all Research Groups and Working Parties
International IUFRO 4.05 Conference
- 25-27 September 2023
- University of Ljubljana in Slovenia
- Unit 4.05
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Calls for Nominations
Calls for nominations for the XXVI IUFRO World Congress Awards
It will be held from 23 to 29 June 2024 in Stockholm, Sweden.
Deadline for submission of nominations: 15 May, 2023.
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Recent Work from Division 4
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Unit 04.05.00 held its conference in Sept. for managerial forest economics and accounting as a base for decision making in a changing world. If you missed it, the conference report is now available.
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Submitted by Manuela Hirschmugl
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Submitted by Maria Nijnik
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Submitted by Vitor Hoeflich
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Congratulations!
IUFRO Research Group 4.05.00 celebrated its 40th anniversary in 2021 and received recognition for the milestone by the IUFRO president.
You can learn more about its history here.
Unit 4.05.05 received the IUFRO letter of appreciation for its organized special sessions on social innovation and adaptive responses to challenges and social innovation in mountain areas to steer a sustainable governance of nature.
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