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• State of the World's Forests
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  This series of reports, published biennially by the UN Food and Agriculture Organization, examines the current status of global forest resources and the role of forests in sustainable development. Each report includes one or more regional perspectives on forest resources and focuses on topical issues ranging from the potential economic benefits of forests to forest-based poverty alleviation to the links between forests and climate change.

  The 2009 edition considers how forestry will have to adapt over the next 20 years to cope with variations in demand for wood products, environmental services, changes in forest sector institutions and developments in science and technology. It highlights the need to address imbalances in scientific and technological capacity by reducing barriers to international and inter-sectoral technology transfer, and mainstreaming environmental issues.

  Visit the State of the World's Forests website here

  
  
• River Basin Management Plans as an instrument for the safeguard of the alpine mountain ecosystem and forests
  (Water Conference 2010 - Press Release (EN Version).pdf)

  In the framework of the MANFRED Project, the Italian Ministry for The Environment, Land and Sea (MATTM) and the Institute for Timber Plants and the Environment (IPLA) organize on October 13th, 2010 an international Workshop on “River Basin Management Plans as an instrument for the safeguard of the alpine mountain ecosystem and forests”. The event will take place in the building of the “Regional Museum of Natural Science” in Turin (Italy), Via Giolitti 36.

  
  

• Alpine Climate Change Days -
  (Alpine Climate Change Days_ Advanced Programme.pdf)

  The Italian Ministry for the Environment - together with the Institute for Timber Plants and for the Environment (I.P.L.A.) and the Piedmont delegation of the National Union of Mountain Communities, Municipalities and Authorities (UNCEM) - is organizing an International Conference in the framework of the “Alpine Climate Change Days”, which are foreseen and promoted in the context of the MANFRED Project. The event is scheduled to take place on next 30th - 31st March, 2011 in Turin, Italy, at the building of the Regional Museum of Natural Science in via Giolitti, 36.