The final conference “Bioeconomy and ecosystem services, synergy or conflict? Horizontal and vertical policy analysis, modelling and orchestration in practice” of the COST Action ORCHESTRA will take place from 5-6 September 2016, in Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium and will focus on the interface between bioeconomy and ecosystem services. ORCHESTRA aims at supporting the coherence of forest-related policy targets and efficiency of policy measures.
The objective of the Eighth International Conference on Environmental Science and Technology (EST 2015) will be to provide a major interdisciplinary forum for presenting new approaches from relevant areas of environmental science, to foster integration of the latest developments in scientific research into engineering applications, and to facilitate technology transfer from well-tested ideas into practical products, waste management, remedial processes, and ecosystem restoration.
The 4th SMTDA conference will focus on new trends in theory, applications and software of Stochastic Modeling Techniques and Data Analysis. The SMTDA2016 will be held in Valletta, Malta from the 1st to the 4th of June, 2016. SMTDA 2016 is organized by the ASMDA International Society and the University of Malta.
The presentations of the 16th Symposium on Systems Analysis in Forest Resources (SSAFR 2015) are now online available. The Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences and Skogforsk hosted more than 100 participants from 22 countries. The keynotes speakers Alan Ager, Charlotte Bengtsson, Sten B. Nilsson and Mikael Rönnqvist gave an overview of the challenges facing the forest sector and in depth analyses of particularly pertinent Operations Research modelling issues. More than 65 presentations covering 12 different thematic areas and a number of posters were presented at the symposium.
From 7-9 July 2015 the conference "Mountain Forest Management in a Changing World" took place in Smokovce, High Tatra Mountains, Slovakia. The conference provided an opportunity to present and discuss the potentials and limitations of current and possible future approaches to mountain forest management for providing portfolios of ecosystem services under current and future climatic and socio-economic conditions. Organized as an open science conference in collaboration with the IUFRO groups 1.01.05 Mountain forest management & 4.03.03 Information management and information technologies the event brought together 130 participants including international researchers, international mountain forestry stakeholders and ARANGE consortium partners. The invited keynote speakers Bernhard Wolfslehner, Timo Pukkala and Peter Brang provided a conceptual framework for the conference. In total 48 oral and 31 poster presentations provided thought-provoking insights to the topic, whereas several presentations where related to decision support systems for forest management as well:
The Use of DSS Optimal for the conditions of Mountains Forests – Case Study by Róbert Marušák, Jan Kašpar
A multi-criteria decisio support system for the multifunctional management of forests on enterprise level by Clemens Blattert, Oliver Thees, Renato Lemm
Multifunctional forest management: An optimization approach under changing climate conditions by Fabian H. Härtl, Thomas Knoke
Value-based trade-offs between ecosystem services from European mountain forests by Alexandra Langner, Florian Irauschek, Susana Perez, Marta Pardos, Tzvetan Zlatanov, Manfred J Lexer
Evaluating participatory techniques to develop climate change adaptation plan of action: Nepal case study by Chiranjeewee Khadka, Anju Upadhyaya, Hima. D. Uprety, Keshav Aryal, Pavel Cudlin, Harald Vacik
Decision support toolkit for adaptive management of forest ecosystem services across borders in Europe by Brady J. Mattsson, Harald Vacik
Decision support tool for multidimensional evaluation of forest road networks and harvesting systems in European mountain forests by Adrian Enache, Martin Kühmaier, Karl Stampfer
Site-specific calibration of the forest dynamics model Sibyla in the Czech Republic by Tomáš Čihák, Tomáš Hlásny, Ivan Barka, Róbert Marušák, Marek Fabrika, Jiří Novák, Marian Slodičák
This conference of the IUFRO Unit 4.04.07 (Risk Analysis) will bring together leading experts from the international scientific community to discuss the risks posed to the forest resource by our changing climate, how these risks are perceived and predicted in the forest science and management community, and how risk and uncertainty can be incorporated in the decision-making process to increase the likelihood that the future realized ecosystem services match our stated goals.
This is the last call to submit your abstract for the IUFRO 2015 biennial Forest Landscape Ecology conference on "Sustaining Ecosystem Services in Forest Landscapes". Researchers are invited to submit a paper for an oral presentation to the symposium on “Ecosystem Services and the Need to be Incorporated into Forest Management Practices to Balance Multiple Uses at Different Scales”.
The International Conference on Operations Research (OR2015) is jointly organised by the German, Austrian and Swiss Operations Research Societies. The primary aim of the stream Simulation & Decision Support at OR2015 is to bring together interested people and to discuss the recent developments in these areas. The organizers are particularly interested in contributions on modeling, simulation and decision support in general or in applications using modeling, simulation and decision support systems in real applications. Contributions could be related to
7th International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies in Agriculture, Food and Environment (HAICTA 2015)
September 17-20, 2015, Kavala, Greece
The Conference is organised by the Hellenic Association for Information and Communication Technologies in Agriculture Food and Environment (HAICTA) with the support of it's Branch in Northern and Central Greece and in cooperation with a number of associated Institutions. HAICTA is the Greek Branch of European Federation for Information Technology in Agriculture (EFITA).
