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Kick-off meeting of the IUFRO Task Force on Forests and Human Health
15th of August at 18.30-20.30, Saariselkä, Finland, in connection with IUFRO Division VI Symposium |
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Aim of the kick-off meeting:
to focus the scope of the TF and
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create ideas for the activities of the TF
Chair: Prof. Hannu Raitio, Director General, Finnish Forest Research Institute, Coordinator of the TF
Preliminary Programme
- Welcome
- Prof. Hannu Raitio, Finnish Forest Research Institute, Coordinator of the TF
- What is an IUFRO Task Force? (pdf)
- Prof. Risto Seppälä, Immediate Past President of IUFRO
- Forests and human health: Dialogue between research, practice and policy-making in the United States
- Prof. Steve Selin, West Virginia University, USA
- Forests and human health: Interactions between research, practice and policy-making in Africa
- Ms Danielle Lema Ngono, CIFOR, Cameroon
- The role of the TF from the point of view of the European network on Forests, trees and human health and well-being (COST E39) (pdf)
- Dr. Marcus Sangster, Forestry Commission, UK, Deputy Coordinator of the COST E39
- Preliminary plan for the Task Force on Forests, trees and human health and well-being (pdf)
- Prof. Hannu Raitio
- Comments on and ideas for the TF (pdf)
- Prof. Yoshifumi Miyazaki, Chiba National University, Japan
Dr. Vesa Virtanen, University of Oulu, Laboratory of Biotechnology, Finland
- Discussion: Ideas on, contributions to and expectations for the activities of the TF. Focus of the TF
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- Summary
- Prof. Hannu Raitio
Contacts:
Eeva Karjalainen, eeva.karjalainen@metla.fi
Finnish Forest Research Institute, Metla
http://www.iufro.org/science/task-forces/forests-trees-humans
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