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Session: Human Health and Forests – New Positions and Increased Income in Integrative Forestry
Moderator:
Ann Merete Furuberg, Norway
email: merete.furuberg@hedmark.org
Content:
Invited Papers and Round table session of IUFRO Research Groups (6.08.01, 6.02.00)
Integrative management of natural resources, including forests, opens possibilities for new positions and increased income for forest owners and society as a whole. The effort to facilitate or promote such possibilities will also require greater cooperation between foresters and other disciplines. The interest of human health and forests is increasing worldwide. What is really human health and forests?
The session will start with invited speakers (10 mins) followed up by limited opportunities for oral presentations (10 mins). In addition poster presentations are accepted.
Invited speakers:
| Alves, Susana |
Research associate, OPENspace Research Centre, Edinburgh College of Art, Edinburgh, UK, s.alves@eca.ac.uk |
| Sugiyama, Takemi |
Research Fellow, Cancer Prevention Research Centre, School of Population Health, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia, t.sugiyama@sph.uq.edu.au |
| Ward Thompson, Catharine |
Professor, OPENspace Research Centre, Edinburgh College of Art, Edinburgh, UK, c.ward-thompson@eca.ac.uk |
| Aspinall, Peter |
Professor, OPENspace Research Centre, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, UK, petera@sbe.hw.ac.uk |
The round table session will discuss different means for action: networking, action research, action plans on different levels and areas in society etc. Is further research needed? The round table participants consist of invited speakers. The round table session is open for questions from the audience.
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