CONFERENCE PROGRAM
The Conference program will be developed along the following broad topics:
Innovative Forest Inventory, Remote Sensing and GIS
- Spatial technology
- Digital/precision forestry
- Remote sensing applications for forest inventories
- Forestry applications of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs)
Virgin, Old growth and Protected Forests
- Role in biodiversity conservation and ecosystem services
- Management and restoration of these special forests
- Ecology of primeval forests
Forest Landscapes and Restoration
- Forest restoration technologies for difficult terrain
- Greening and ecosystem restoration in arid and semi-arid areas
- Scope of assisted migration in landscape restoration and adaptive forest management
Sustainable Forest Management
- Forest certification
- Management of the Forests of Russia and Central Asia
- Sustainable forest management: plantations, operations, traditional knowledge, governance
- Ecosystem services assessment, management, trade-offs
- Protection and conservation of forest genetic resources
Forest Disturbance and Climate Change
- Climate-smart forestry
- Insects and pathogens — invasions, pandemics, causes, cures, forest diversity
- Urban and peri-urban forest health
- Climate change, megafires, and air pollution: impacts and resilience
- Forest landscape restoration after large scale disturbances
Social and Economic Factors
- Fragmentation, forest tenure, and other drivers of forest transition
- Social, cultural, spiritual values of forests
- Forest landscapes serving recreation, tourism, and urban users
- Illegal logging and illegal trade in timber, wildlife, and forest tree planting material
Technological Advances for Forest Management/Restoration
- Technological advances in forest industry
- Forest biotechnology: clonal plantations, genomic selection
- Wood and wood-based materials: machining, drying, quality, properties
- Decision support models for management decisions and landscape restoration