Congress Spotlight #69 – Sifting through underlying values and ethics to make sound nature management decisions
Congress Spotlight #69 – Sifting through underlying values and ethics to make sound nature management decisions
How does one decide how to manage a forest ethically?
One could simply say: do the right thing. But, the right thing for whom? And defining right and wrong – concepts that can vary according to moral climate or individual circumstance – is not all that simple.
Read more…Systematic Review in Forest Science – Learning from Traditional Forest Knowledge
Report by Dr Gillian Petrokofsky, University of Oxford, 23 October 2016
http://www.iufro.org/science/special/spdc/actproj/tws-beij/
Aims of the training
Dr. Gillian Petrokofsky, Biodiversity Institute Oxford, and trainees. Photo: Eva Schimpf, IUFRO-SPDC
The 3-day training workshop introduced participants to systematic review as a powerful tool in evidence synthesis.
The tool is used to improve decision-making and any policy formulation that draws on scientific evidence. The workshop explored examples from forestry and natural resource management.
Participants applied techniques of systematic review to develop mini-Protocols focused on how traditional knowledge forest could inform current forest management strategies/policy. Read more…