UNU Update: Forestry symposium

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	HOME \| ARCHIVES \|	Issue 28: November-December 2003

New forest strategies for
countries in transition

The challenges faced by countries with economies in transition (CITs) in developing forest policy will be discussed at an international symposium in Belgrade November 21-23.

The first report on Forests in Transition, published by UNU Press and focusing on the role of research and higher education in developing national forest programmes in CITs, will be launched at the symposium.

The primary aim of the event is to discuss new strategies for developing the mechanisms and instruments to building a knowledge-based, innovative framework to formulate and implement forest policy in rapidly changing socio-economic and environmental conditions.

The need to incorporate science, research and capacity building in forest policy formulation and implementation at the national as well as the international level was emphasized at the Ministerial Conference on the Protection of Forests in
Europe (MCPFE) in April and at the third session of the United Nations Forum on Forests (UNUFF -3) in May.

The Belgrade symposium will address these issues within the context of the on-going rapid transformations in countries with economies in transition. Discussions will continue the dialogue among experts from transition
states and relevant international institutions initiated at the first joint symposium held in July 2002 in Kaunas.

The event is jointly organized by UN University, European Forestry Institute, University of Joensuu/Silva Network and the University of Natural Resources and Applied Life Sciences (BOKU). Local hosts are the Institute of Forestry, Faculty of Forestry and the State Enterprise for Forest Management.

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