International Conference on Forest Landscape Restoration
Seoul, Korea: The objective of the Forest Landscape Restoration Conference is to examine the scientific basis for forest landscape restoration and its linkages to practice and policy.
The International Conference on Forest Landscape Restoration will be held 14-19 May 2007. Technical sessions will be held May 14-16, with 1- and 3-day post-conference field trips. The conference venue is the COEX Convention Center in downtown Seoul, Republic of Korea. The conference is held under the auspices of IUFRO Divisions 1, 6, and 8 and IUFRO Korea, hosted by the Korea Forest Research Institute and the Korean Forest Society, with sponsorship of the Korea Forest Service, USDA Forest Service, Seoul National University, Northeast Asian Forest Forum, Society for Ecological Restoration, and the IUCN Commission on Ecosystem Management. The Conference is being held in cooperation with the Global Partnership on Forest Landscape Restoration and member organizations IUCN and WWF.
Purpose of Conference
The objective of the Forest Landscape Restoration Conference is to examine the scientific basis for forest landscape restoration and its linkages to practice and policy. Forest Landscape Restoration is a process that aims to balance trade-offs between and improve ecological integrity and human well-being in degraded or deforested forest landscapes by fostering appropriate forms of restoration at strategically chosen locations. Simply put, forest landscape restoration brings people together to identify, negotiate and implement practices that restore an agreed optimal balance of the ecological, social and economic benefits of forests and trees within a broader pattern of land uses.
Online registration is now available at
http://www.kaltour.com/pco/ifr07/regWri.asp
