Topics and recommended contents of the conference:
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| 1. Climate change |
| - Climate change from local perspective to global threats |
| - Vulnerability of forests and forestry |
| - Benefits of carbon pools |
| - Adopting mitigation and adaptation management practices |
| - Accessing carbon markets by SSF and community forestry groups including CDM |
| - REDD and sustainable forest management |
| 2. Harvesting technologies and forest products |
| - Innovation and development in technologies and engineering for SSF |
| - SSF as a source of wood products and bioenergy |
| - Wood production chains |
| - Logistics and market |
| - Goods and services of SSF |
| - Environmental sound technologies |
| 3. Social development |
| - Forestry between social goals and owners’ demands |
| - Gender role in SSF management |
| - Small-scale forest from the sociological and psychological perspectives |
| - Heritage and nature conservation |
| - Intergenerational transfer of forestland and changing demographics |
| 4. Information technology |
| - Forestry–related decision support systems |
| - Remote access of data and knowledge |
| - Precision forestry |
| - Using electronic social networking to transfer knowledge for application |
| - Knowledge exchange through the effective use of collaborative technologies |
| 5. Knowledge transfer |
| - Forestry trainings, outreach programs and life-long learning for forest owners |
| - Optimization of knowledge uptake for owners |
| - Reaching different categories of forest owners |
| - Knowledge for innovation and development |
| - Incorporating contemporary issues into traditional programs |
| 6. Forest policy and economics |
| - Processes, instruments and strategies for SSF |
| - Socio-economic aspects of SSF |
| - Figures about private forests and forestry |
| - Extension as an unbiased facilitator in forest policy |
| - Identifying policy options |
| - Innovations for entrepreneurial activities and economic development |
| 7- Forest business in practice |
| - Competitiveness of SSF on the enlarging market |
| - Contracting in private forests |
| - Agroforestry |
| - Work safety |
| - Organisation of work and cooperation in SSF |
| - Training forest owners in best business practices |
