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Membership of IUFRO is open to any institution concerned with the promotion, support or conduct of research related to forests, trees and forest products.
IUFRO-SPDC produces and markets training manuals and self-teaching materials to support forestry research in developing countries.
Hard copies may be ordered from IUFRO-SPDC (spdc(at)iufro.org), and, if ordered in small quantities, are free of charge for scientists from IUFRO Member Organizations in developing countries (we only charge postage costs).
Forest Landscape Restoration
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23 Feb 2023 Occasional Paper No. 36 - Forest Related Nature-Based Approaches - Review of Terms and Concepts – from Afforestation to Forest Landscape Restoration
Nature-based concepts have been embraced by different scientific disciplines and operationalized by practitioners in different ecological, social and historic contexts. Rewilding and Forest Landscape Restoration
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10 Jan 2022 Occasional Paper No. 34 - Governance of Forest Landscape Restoration: Analyses of Governance Issues in Cases from Ghana and India
Forest landscape restoration is widely recognised as a continuous process that requires considerable time to lead to visible results that impact people’s livelihoods and well-being.
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14 Feb 2020 Occasional Paper No. 33 - Forest Landscape Restoration Implementation: Lessons learned from selected landscapes in Africa, Asia and Latin America
The need for large-scale forest landscape restoration has been increasingly recognised, with significant political support globally and locally. Considerable effort has been devoted globally to
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16 Sep 2017 Implementing Forest Landscape Restoration - A Practitioner's Guide
Large-scale restoration initiatives are underway to counter global loss and degradation of the world's forests. These include the Bonn Challenge (150 million ha by 2020),
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01 Dec 2015 World Series Vol. 34 - Forest Landscape Restoration as a Key Component of Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation
Drawing on state-of-the art scientific knowledge through analysis of restoration case studies and review of scientific literature, IUFRO scientists developed a framework to demonstrate how
Global Teak Resources and Evaluation
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25 Jun 2024 World Series Vol. 44 – Global Teak Resources and Market Assessment 2022
The latest update on teak resources and markets was carried out with the support of IUFRO's network of scientists and TEAKNET experts. It shows that
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21 Jun 2017 World Series Vol. 36 - The Global Teak Study. Analysis, Evaluation and Future Potential of Teak Resources
Teak (Tectona grandis L.f.) is one of the most valuable tropical hardwoods of the world. Together with other highgrade hardwoods such as mahogany and rosewood,
Public Relations and Communications
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03 Sep 2005 Public Relations for Forest Science
This manual is primarily intended for use by forest scientists who want to communicate their research results to various forest stakeholder groups including the public
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03 Sep 2014 Communicating Forest Science
Communicating about science in the setting of a forest, grove of trees, or chaparral can bring people with very different experiences together in unexpected and,
Proposal Writing
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04 Feb 2000 Manual for Grant Writing and Proposal Development (2000): "Handbook for Preparing and Writing Research Proposals"
This Manual was developed by Professor C. Patrick Reid of the University of Arizona, USA, in 1999, for the purpose of being used as a
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04 Sep 2001 Manuel pour la préparation et la rédaction de propositions de recherche
La version originale anglaise de ce manuel de l’IUFRO-SPDC, préparée par le Dr. C. P. Patrick Reid et publiée début 2000, a eu beaucoup de
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04 Sep 2005 Manual para la Preparación y Redacción de Propuestas de Investigación
Este manual de IUFRO-SPDC, escrito por el Dr. C. P. Patrick Reid y publicado por primera vez en inglés a principios del año 2000, ha