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COMMUNICATING RISKS IN Decision Support Systems: from basic research to advance decision support tools.

6^th – 8^th of June 2018.

6 and 7^th June in Solsona and 8^th of June Barcelona (Spain).

ORGANIZERS OF THE MEETING.

Forest Sciences Centre of Catalonia (CTFC) – SuFoRun project:
SuFoRun is Marie Skodowska-Curie Research and Innovation Staff Exchange (RISE) action funded by the European Union H2020. Is focused on forestry and climate change interactions, including the development of adaptive forest management tools. The SuFoRUn consortium is built to include highly qualified research institutions in nine countries (i.e. Spain, Portugal, Finland, Sweden, Costa Rica, Chile, Brazil and USA) that share complementary interests in key scientific disciplines for the development of the forest sector. The project will serve to exchange and generate knowledge on multipurpose forests, addressing risk and uncertainty and the development of knowledge on methods and tools to support policy analysis and development in a context of global change. The project strengthens research collaboration through active networking, staff exchange and dissemination activities between the participants.

Further information of the project is available at the website: https://suforun.ctfc.cat/

IUFRO Units 4.04.07 risk analysis and 4.04.04 – SUSTAINABLE FOREST MANAGEMENT SCHEDULING
The Risk Analysis working party will bring together individuals with diverse research interests in forestry in order to share techniques of risk analysis. As a working party that will focus less on a specific biological issue, and more on a widely applicable methodology, it will foster unique cross-disciplinary co-operation as it contributes to the IUFRO mission of “[disseminating] knowledge to stakeholders and decision makers and [contributing] to forest policy and on-the-ground forest management”.

Unit 4.04.04 focuses on the development and application of new methods and tools for efficiently and effectively managing forests. An objective of this unit is to facilitate interaction, dissemination and exchange of new models, methods and technological innovations to address sustainable forest management scheduling through workshops, conferences, and publications.

Conference objectives and methodology:

This international conference will focus on the presentation of models, methods and decision support systems that may be used by public administrators, forest owners and industry for forest management planning in a context of risk and uncertainty. This conference is co-financed by the SuFoRun international R&D project (https://suforun.ctfc.cat/) and is organized by Centre Tecnològic Forestal de Catalunya (CTFC, Spain) and IUFRO unit 4.04.07.

The conference wants to provide a meeting and discussion space on scientific and expert knowledge about risk and uncertainty and methods to include this knowledge in decision support tools. Risk and uncertainty includes topics as climate change, wildfires, storms, avalanches … The conference has the following specific objectives;

• Understanding the impacts of climate change and different hazards in forestry
• Presenting results of modeling risk and uncertainty
• Underlying uncertain factors in forest decision-making process
• Presenting tools for identifying, propagating and analysisng uncertanity in forestry
• Understanding the implications of integrating risks in forestry
• Presenting useful approaches to communicate risks and uncertainty with stakeholders
• Presenting approaches and tools to deal with risk

The agenda includes sessions with key note speakers as well as presentations from other researchers. The conference starts in Solsona 6^th of June (full day conference), followed by a fieldtrip on the 7^th of June which will serve to analyze the case of wildfires in the region. After the fieldtrip participants will travel to Barcelona where will overnight and the 8^th of June the last day of the conference will take place. An active participation of the invited attendants is expected.

PRELIMINARY AGENDA:

Organizing team:

• Jordi Garcia-Gonzalo. (Forest Science and Technology Centre of Catalonia CTFC, Solsona, Spain).
• Rasoul Yousefpour. (University of Freiburg, Germany).
• Imma Clop (Forest Science and Technology Centre of Catalonia CTFC, Solsona, Spain).
• Goran Krsnik (Forest Science and Technology Centre of Catalonia CTFC, Solsona, Spain).

Scientific committee:

• Jordi Garcia-Gonzalo (Centre Tecnológic Forestal de Catalunya, Spain)
• Rasoul Yousefpour, (University of Freiburg, Germany)
• José Guilherme Borges (Instituto Superior de Agronomia, Portugal)
• José Ramón González-Olabarria (Centre Tecnológic Forestal de Catalunya, Spain)
• Marielle Brunette (INRA-Nancy, France)
• Jan Kaspar (Czech University of Life Sciences Prague, Czeck Republic)
• Teodora Minkova (Washington State Department of Natural Resources, USA)

Call for abstracts

We welcome abstracts for oral presentations that are related to the to the topic of this conference.  The abstracts will be used to group presentations into sessions of similar content and they will also be collated into the program book for distribution at the meeting.  We would like to receive extended abstracts with an upper limit of 400 words (not including title, authors and author affiliations and keywords), and the abstract can also include a figure and citations (please use font type Times New Roman, font size 12 and line spacing 1.5.  The program booklet does not constitute a publication and therefore will not prevent future submission and publication of work that it is outlined in the abstract.

Please include the following information in the abstract:

1. Underline the name of the presenting author, and provide contact email address.
2. Provide address details for all authors.
3. Please prepare the abstract using Microsoft Word.
4. Please submit it named as “LASTNAME_RiskAnalysis_abstract.doc”
5. Submit the abstract to this e-mail address:  j.garcia@ctfc.cat

The abstract submission deadline is March 15, 2018 (extended deadline May 15, 2018).  All abstracts will be reviewed by the scientific committee.  Authors will be informed of the review results by May 20, 2018. Be aware that All speakers are required to register by June 1st or their submission will be pulled from the program. Requests for Invitation Letters will be considered after abstract submission.

Send requests to j.garcia@ctfc.cat along with abstract.

Annals of Forest Science will publish a special issue that includes papers submitted by researchers participating in the conference (after a peer review process).

Attendance and participation:

Fees & Registration

Fees: The seminar fee will be 270 euros for registrations up to 15^th of May, for late registrations (after 15^th of May) the fee will be 375 euros. The registration fee will cover welcoming cocktail, lunches, coffee breaks, official dinner, transportation from/to Barcelona and the field trip.

Registration:  Be aware that the total audience is limited. If you are interested in participating and you want to receive an email when the registration system is ready please contact to (j.garcia@ctfc.cat). Be aware that special price for hotels will be kept for those registered before April 15^th after that date we can not promise these prices.

Please to ensure a special price for the hotels in Solsona you must inform us about your hotel selection when registering to the conference and we will make the reservation for you (see table 1 for hotel options and prices).

In the case of Barcelona we do not have agreements with hotels. Therefore, feel free to arrange your own stay for the 7^th of June onwards.

Practical information

Venue

The conference will take place first (6-7^th of June) in the Forest Sciences Centre of Catalonia, Crtra St Llorenç de Morunys, Km 2, Solsona, Lleida, Spain and later (8^th of June) in Barcelona (in Palau Robert). The address of the venue in Barcelona is: Palau Robert. Information Center of Catalonia Passeig de Gràcia, 107 08008 Barcelona.

Shuttle buses (covered by the registration fee) will be organized by CTFC on June 5^th to transport participants from Barcelona to Solsona city center (the trip takes about 1h30). Meeting point and schedule of the buses (probably two different times) will be organized and specified later. Buses from Solsona to Barcelona on the 7^th will also be organized by CTFC.

Please when registering indicate your arrival and departure time. This will help us to organize the buses and provide you exact information.

Hotel information in Solsona.

Hotel information in Barcelona.

We do not have agreements with any hotel in Barcelona, pleaes book yourself your hotel.

How to arrive to Solsona from Barcelona (For those that can not make it to the organized buses)

Shared taxis can be arranged. The cost of the taxi is around 120 €.

Other options:

By regular Bus

• Regular buses between Barcelona city center and Solsona. The company is www.alsa.es/en  and the buses depart from Estació d’autobusos Barcelona-Nord www.barcelonanord.com/default_eng.asp

BUS TIMETABLE BARCELONA – SOLSONA:

BUS TIMETABLE SOLSONA-BARCELONA:

By car

• Of course you can come to Solsona with your own car or with a rented one! In case you prefer to rent a car, we recommend this link to find cheap cars but of course you can use any other seach engine:

http://www.find-cheap-car-hire.co.uk/cheap-car-hire-rates-cartrawler-prices-car-rental-search-engine/

*  Please remember to inform us about your arrival/departure times, hotel preferences and need to organize shared taxis for you. We do need this information to formalize the hotel reservations for you and to organize taxis if needed.