Organizer: Yale School of the Environment
Description:
The Yale Chapter of the International Society of Tropical Foresters (ISTF) will host its 28th Annual Conference: “Rethinking Restoration and Recovery: Landscapes of the Past, Present, and Future in the Tropics”. The conference will take place on January 27 - 29th, 2022. The conference will be free to attend and registration is now live on our website https://istfconference.events.yale.edu/ .
The Yale ISTF Chapter is dedicated to the advancement of tropical forest studies at the Yale School of the Environment, formerly known as the Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies. The ISTF conference has been hosted at Yale for 27 years and addresses a range of socio-ecological issues related to tropical forests. The 2022 conference will facilitate a space to consider challenges and opportunities for scaling the restoration and recovery of tropical landscapes as we enter the UN Decade on Restoration. The conference seeks to weave together historically, ecologically, and socially relevant perspectives on timescales of threat, degradation, and recovery.
The conference will feature keynote addresses by:
John Parrotta, President of the International Union of Forest Research Organizations; National Research Program Leader for International Science Issues at the US Forest Service
Josefina Braña Varela, Vice President and Deputy Lead of the Forests Team at WWF
Musonda Mumba, Director for The Rome Centre for Sustainable Development under the United Nations Development Programme
The conference will adopt a hybrid format. It will be predominantly held virtually via zoom and may have options for local attendees to participate in certain in-person events, local COVID situation permitting. We hope that the primarily online format will allow wider access and flexibility for attendees around the world, especially for participants and speakers that have historically faced difficulties with travel to the United States.
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