Building on their 100-year old experience, the University of Belgrade – Faculty of Forestry is organizing the international Congress that will provide updated scientific, decision-making and policy-relevant information across a broad array of different forestry, landscape architecture and horticulture, wood science and technology, and ecological engineering in soil and water protection issues and related scientific disciplines. Emphasis will be on what state-of-the-art research is now telling us about present and future change within these topics and its implications for policy- and decision-making. Organized to include plenary and breakout sessions covering both disciplinary and interdisciplinary perspectives, results from the various sessions ...
Read MoreA letter from SWST members: Dear colleagues and friends, Please, let me inform you in deep sorrow that our colleague, friend, teacher, and scientist, Dr. Marian Babiak, passed away peacefully in the presence of loved ones on 17th December 2019, aged 71. He was a Professor Emeritus at University of Zvolen in Slovakia and ended his career at the Czech University of Life Sciences Prague. He was an active SWST member and General Co-Chair of the 2014 International SWST Convention which was held in Zvolen. The last memorial service will be held on December 27, 2019, at 12:30 at Bratislava ...
Read MoreEver since Dr Andreja Kutnar was little, she enjoyed helping her father in the carpentry workshop and creating wood products. After finishing high school, she chose to study wood science and undertake a career path in this profession. She learned a lot and gathered knowledge and experiences abroad and at home. One major turning point in her life was a visit to the USA, to Oregon State University, where she first spent half a year for PhD study and later returned for a postdoc position. She met many experts in the USA with whom she is collaborating in business still ...
Read MoreSave the Date WSF2020 14 - 19 September 2020, Geneva, Switzerland September 2020 marks the 5th birthday of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and the UN Sustainable Development Goals. If it were a child and given the right circumstances, it would now have developed fine motor skills, be able to stand on one foot for 10 seconds, have long conversations, and start to develop independence and responsibility. With The 8th World Sustainability Forum, we are not only celebrating a birthday, but are also taking stock of where we are in relation to a more sustainable world, what has worked, what has not ...
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