IUFRO Profiles Pia Katila
Pia Katila
WFSE Coordinator
Helsinki, Finland

Biography

Pia Katila, Dr, is a Senior Scientist Natural Resources Institute Finland (Luke). 

She has a MSc in Land Use Economics and Dr in Forest Sciences from the University of Helsinki. 

She is the coordinator and editor in chief of the IUFRO Special Project World Forests, Society and Environment (IUFRO-WFSE), a large international research network. Her main research interests are forest and environmental policy, governance, international forestry and community and smallholder forestry.

IUFRO Functions

WFSE Coordinator – IUFRO Board
WFSE Coordinator – IUFRO Enlarged Board
WFSE Coordinator – World Forests, Society and Environment

IUFRO Publications

White Paper - Forest Landscape Restoration for Climate, Nature and People

Policy Brief - Balancing interests and approaches for equitable, just and sustained forest restoration

Issue Brief - Synergistic policies and measures are the key to advancing sustainable forest management and forest-based development

Policy Brief - Harnessing forests for the Sustainable Development Goals: Building synergies and mitigating trade-offs

Policy Brief - Building on synergies: Harnessing community and smallholder forestry for Sustainable Development Goals

Policy Brief - Embracing complexity in international forest governance: a way forward

Policy Brief - Making forests fit for climate change A global view of Climate-Change impacts on forests and people for adaptation

Occasional Paper No. 34 - Governance of Forest Landscape Restoration: Analyses of Governance Issues in Cases from Ghana and India

World Series Vol. 32 - Forests under pressure: Local responses to global issues

IUFRO World Series Vol. 25 - Forests and Society – Responding to Global Drivers of Change