This session will focus on the commercialization of community forestry, including the impact of forest management activities on socioeconomic systems, distribution of costs and benefits of forest management, appropriate institutions and policies to support SFM, adaptive management approaches, and the technical and managerial capacity of communities. This session will focus on the expectations and realities of forest certification as a conservation strategy. Issues to be addressed include the practice of certified forestry in tropical countries, certified products and the market, and the environmental and social benefits of certification. All individuals involved in tropical forest conservation, ecology, management or policy are strongly encouraged to submit an abstract for consideration as an oral or poster presentation. Oral presentations must address the session themes, and the number selected will be limited by time constraints of the sessions.
Poster presentations are open to any area within tropical forestry, broadly defined.
Abstracts MUST be submitted electronically via this web site. HERE for abstract instructions and submission. The registration fee includes a conference packet, abstract booklet, a Poster Reception, and refreshment breaks. To register , you can click here to register with a credit card online. Cancellation and Refunds Requests for registration refunds will be honored if a written notice of cancellation is received by the IFAS Office of Conferences and Institutes on or before January 25, 2002.