Workshop on Forests – Common Benefits, Shared Responsibilities, Multiple Policies

17-19 October, Riga, Latvia

Workshop documents

• Final Report
• Background Document
• Agenda

Presentations

• Major developments and changes outside and inside the forest sector and the necessity for increased cross-sectoral networking
  Carsten Thoroe, Institute for Economics, Federal Research Centre for Forestry
• EFSOS and the importance of the cross-sectoral dimension
  Kit Prins, Chief, UNECE/FAO Timber Branch
• Forestry, cross-sectoral issues and globalisation: Managing and adapting to change in a borderless world
  C.T.S. Nair, FAO Forestry Department
• Globalization and the Forest Sector - presentation and paper
  Sten Nilsson, IIASA
• Energy Policy – Interactions with Forestry Sector
  Jean-Christophe Füeg, UNECE Committee for Sustainable Energy, Swiss Federal Office of Energy
• Forests nurture water
  Sibylle Vermont, Swiss Agency for the Environment
• Forests & Rural Development Strategies
  David Baldock, Institute for European Environmental Policy
• Forest and Environment/Nature Conservation
  Tamás Marghescu, IUCN
• Forest Academy Communication concept for dialogue between forest & society
  Eeva Hellström, Forest Academy Finland
• Inter-sectoral coordination in European forest governance
  Evelien Verbij, Waheningen University