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Conferences and meetings 2004
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In June, the conference Monitoring and Management of Visitor Flows in Recreational and Protected Areas (MMV2) was held in Rovaniemi. The 130 delegates from 20 different countries consisted of researchers on recreational environment use, and planners and managers of conservation and recreational areas. The plenary speakers were the most distinguished specialists in the field from Canada, the United States and Finland.
The topics of the conference included discussions on, for example, how tourism and recreational use can be integrated with targets of conservation and what kind of controls are available to reconcile the different forms of use and the targets of different user groups. Other essential themes were prevention of possible conflicts, alternative choices for problem solving and methods of monitoring amounts of visitors.
The meeting in Rovaniemi followed the first international meeting on the corresponding topics held in Vienna in 2002. The fact that the organizing responsibility was assigned to Finland was a recognition of the cooperation that Metla and Metsähallitus have engaged in to develop visitor monitoring in the National Parks and recreational areas. The arrangements of the conference were made by Metla in cooperation with Metsähallitus, the University of Lapland, the Arctic Centre and Rovaniemi Polytechnic.
Concurrently with the MMV2 conference in Rovaniemi, Metsähallitus and Metla organized a Nordic-Baltic visitor monitoring meeting, and the work started in the meeting is being continued, supported by the Nordic Council of Ministers, aiming to create common methods and standards for visitor monitoring. All Nordic countries, together with Estonia and Lithuania are participating in the work. The presentations given in the MMV2 meeting are published as electronic versions on Metla's website at http://www.metla.fi/julkaisut/workingpapers/index-en.htm.
134 researchers and stakeholders from 15 countries participated in the International Conference on Arctic Microbiology, held in Rovaniemi in March.
The Scandinavian Society of Forest Economics assembled in May in Järvenpää.
Research into dendrology, i.e. the study of tree species, was the topic of the meeting held at Punkaharju on June 2-3. The major goals of the meeting were to exchange information, and to discuss the lines of future research.
YLE, the Finnish Broadcasting Company, recorded a seminar arranged by Metla at the Finnish Science Centre and the lectures were broadcast on the YLE Teema channel in the Science Forum program.
As part of the Argumenta series funded by the Finnish Cultural Foundation, the Koli Border Forum was followed with the forest theme. The idea of the event is to address socially current and significant themes through discussion and argumentation, with Koli National Park as the scene of the event.
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Updated: | 02.08.2005 / REsk | Metla : Annual Report : Annual Report 2004 |  |
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