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Program | August 16-18, 2021
All slots are listed in Pacific Daytime Savings Time (PDT, UTC -7). This Program may change, please check frequently for updates until the start of the Conference.
If you are a presenter, please check if your allocated PDT time slot corresponds to your local daytime zone and notify us immediately (at email: cfc.2021@ubc.ca) if there is any conflict and you may not be available at that time.
Monday, August 16
Tuesday, August 17
Wednesday, August 18
Monday morning, August 16
Opening Ceremony
6:30 am – 7:00 am
Plenary (All-Conference) – Keynote 1 & 2
7:00 am – 8:00 am
| Dr Savita | India | Keynote 1: Legacy from the 19th Commonwealth Forestry Conference and looking forward to the future of forests |
| Dr Harini Nagendra | India | Keynote 2: Urban forestry in the era of the Anthropocene: Science, education, action. |
Special session 1: New Markets and applications: Building our Future
9:00 am – 12:00 pm | Chair: Jack Saddler
| Ian de la Roche | Canada | Recent Trends in Building with Wood |
| Chunping Dai | Canada | Sustainable material developments with bamboo |
| Neil Tomas | UK | Building with Bamboo |
| Michael Ramage | UK | Growing the Future |
| Eric Karsh | Canada | Beyond the Case for Tall Wood |
| John Metras | Canada | The Evolution of Mass Timber Construction at the University of British Columbia |
| All | Panel discussion |
Concurrent session 2.1. Education and Careers: Forest Education in the Context of Massive Transition
8:00 am – 10:30 am | Chair: John Innes
| Alicja Kacprzak | Italy | The role of forest education in shaping the workforce of the future |
| David Ekhuemelo | Nigeria | Appreciation of Forestry Profession amidst Forestry and Wildlife students in Some Nigerian Universities |
| August Temu | Tanzania | Future Specialized Forestry Eduation For Africa |
| Shashi Kant | Canada | Forestry Education in 21st Century: Trees to Global Socio-Ecological Systems |
| Michelle Zeng | Canada | Forest Education in An Online Environment: Lessons Learned during the COVID-19 Global Pandemic at UBC |
| Brigitte Leblon | Canada | TRANSFOR-M (TRANSatlantic FORestry Master): a Canada-Europe award-winning dual-degree Master program for training globally-minded forest and environmental managers and scientists |
Concurrent session 3. Communication
8:00 am – 10:30 am | Chair: Susan Gagnon
| Neil Leveridge | Canada | Forestry communication in a virtual/hybrid world: transforming approaches to education and engagement |
| Alan Pottinger | United Kingdom | The Queen’s Commonwealth Canopy: promoting forests throughout the Commonwealth |
| Judith Vogel | USA | A Study of Maple Syrup Production in New Jersey |
| Terence Sunderland | Canada | Communicating science: A practical perspective |
| W. Keith Moser | USA | Expanding the role of the International Society of Tropical Foresters in knowledge/tech transfer for tropical sustainability |
Concurrent session 6.1, 3 & 6 Conservation vs. Consumption: Indigenous & Community Forestry | Valuation | Old Growth
8:00 am – 11 am | Chair: Jeff Sayer
| Sanjay Singh | Canada | Sustainable harvesting of Mucuna pruriens (Linn.) DC. from wild |
| Marie Nosten | Canada | Assessing the Pga’knyaw (Karen) rotational farming practice as a form of forest management and tool for land governance: a case study of Ban Klang, Lampang, Thailand |
| Rashmi Sehrawat | Canada | Indigenous Tree Borne oil seed: Diploknema butyracea (Cheura, The Indian Butter Tree) |
| Health Break | ||
| Sarah Dickson-Hoyle | Canada | Equal partnerships in the era of ‘megafires’: lessons and leadership from Secwepemcúl’ecw |
| Renata Veiga | Brazil | The social value environmental and fire stewardship programs: Insights from Australia and Canada |
| Nicholas Brokaw | United States | Old-growth dynamics in tropical forests of Belize |
Concurrent session 7. Urban Forestry for Promoting Planetary Health
8:00 am – 10:30 am | Chair: Cecil Konijnendijk
| Robert White | Canada | Saskatoon’s Hidden Forest- An afforestation project now a laboratory in ecological succession and a valuable urban forest on the Prairies. |
| Christina Geng | Canada | Impacts of COVID-19 pandemic on urban park visitation: a global analysis |
| Zhaohua (Cindy) Cheng | Canada | To what extent are climate change and urban forestry policies aligned in Canadian cities? |
| Syamili Manoj Santhi | India/UK | Context-specific Urban Forest Management: A Citizen Science Approach |
| Yuhao Lu | Canada | How “shady” are neighborhood trees: modeling Vancouver’s urban canopy shading effect |
Concurrent session 8.1 & 2 IUFRO Div. 6 and 9: Livelihoods and Traditional Knowledge
8:00 – 11:00 am | Chair: Stephen Wyatt
| Sruthi Subbanna | India | Economic Analysis of Bambusa balcooa, Dendracalamus stocksii and Bambusa tulda in subhumid regions of Peninsular India |
| Angela Muthama | Kenya | Socio-economic impact of tree Pests and Diseases in Nakuru County, Kenya |
| Lucy Binfield | Canada BC | Bamboo industry development for poverty alleviation: What works? |
| Camilla Moioli | Canada BC | Income distribution and inequality analysis within the Conversion of Cropland to Forest Program: a case study from Jiangxi, Shaanxi, and Sichuan provinces in China |
| Dawit Guta | Canada BC | Misalignment of households revealed and stated tree-species preferences for firewood in the South of Chile and implications for native forests |
| Health break | ||
| John Palmer | Canada BC | Cassava agrobiodiversity in the Guiana Shield: ecocultural resilience, global implications |
| Janette Bulkan | Canada BC | Producing cassava foods and drinks, re-producing Indigenous society in Guyana |
| Simay Kirca | Turkey | Reconstructing the historic fabric of Belgrade Forest (Istanbul) through its toponyms as a means to revitalizing conservation and restoration efforts |
| Elisabeth Johann | Austria | The appreciation of traditional forest-related knowledge as a starting point for future development – a case study of Austria |
| Wil de Jong | Netherlands | Cedars of the north mountains. Historical forest culture and practices in modern day nature policies |
Monday afternoon, August 16
Plenary (All-Conference) – Keynote 3 and 4
6:00 pm – 7:00 pm
| Suzanne Mavoa | Australia/Canada | Urban forestry and human health |
| Julian Elder | New Zealand | The Future of Forestry – The Climate Change Challenge and Opportunity |
Concurrent session 6.4 & 5 Conservation vs. Consumption: National Parks and Wildlife
4:00 pm – 8:30 pm | Chair: Cole Burton
| Nabin Dahal | Japan | Conservation benefits globally costs locally: A case study of wildlife impact on food security in the adjacent community, Koshi Tappu Wildlife Reserve, Nepal |
| Margaret Calderon | Philippines | Enhancing the potential contribution of Almaciga (Agathis philippinensis) Resin Tapping to Indigenous Peoples in the Phillipines |
| Analyn Codilan | Philippines | Feasibility of Developing Almaciga (Agathis philippinensis) Tree Plantations in the Philippines |
| Baifei Ren | Canada | The Impact of Human Interference on Landscape Pattern in the Entrance Community of National Park |
| Pauline Suffice | Canada | Shifting paradigms: Promoting Indigenous Protected and Conserved Areas projects |
| 6 – 7 pm All-Conference Keynote Talks 3 and 4 | ||
| Christina Geng | Canada | Seasonal Variation in Visitor Satisfaction and Its Management Implications in Banff National Park |
| Subhash Sharma | India | Willingness to Pay for Conservation of Pin Valley National Park (PVNP), Himachal Pradesh, India |
| Fangbing Hu | Canada | Impacts of National Park Tourism Sites: A Perceptual Analysis from Residents of Three Spatial Levels of Local Communities in Banff National Park |
| Divya Soman | India | The Economics of Endangered Species Protection in a Protected Area: The Case of Parambikulam Tiger Reserve, Kerala, India |
| Suresh Chandra Gairola | India | Wildlife Management in India: Challenges, Strategies and Perspectives |
| Subhash Anand | India | Impacts of Forest Ecosystem Services on Livelihood Security and Sustainability: A Case of Jim Corbett National Park in Uttarakhand |
Concurrent session 8.3 & 4 IUFRO Div. 6 and 9: Certification | Policy | Livelihoods
4 pm – 6 pm | Chair: Janette Bulkan
| Juliana Lima de Freitas | Canada | Assessing how the beneficiaries perceive the constraints and benefits of FSC certification: a case study of Brazilian smallholders planted forests |
| Paul Johnson | United States | New Roadmap and Destination – SFI Urban Forest Sustainability Standard |
| Ryo Kohsaka | Japan | Impacts of forest environmental tax and multi-level collaboration: toward sustainable forest management scheme in Japan |
| Sudha Adhikari | Japan | Impacts of scientific forest management practices on forest user’s livelihood- A case study from community forest in Lumbini Province Nepal. |
| Yoshitaka Miyake | Japan | Economic and environmental prospect of NTFP GIs in Japan: Empirical analysis of Joboji Urushi |
Concurrent session 2.4 Forest Education Technology Development
7 pm – 9 pm | Chair: Guangyu Wang
| Juan Pulhin, Roberto Figueroa | Philippines | Transforming Forestry Education through Technological Innovations |
| Michael Justason | Canada | Using the Lightboard to teach online |
| Kathleen Coupland | Canada | Untapped Resources: Increasing outdoor education by utilizing urban trees on a hyper-local scale |
| Dominik Roeser | Canada | Digital twin of the forest – how virtual reality can improve operational performance and land-based resource management |
| Patrick Culbert | Canada | Online teaching and learning |
| Anil Shrestha, Halina Chen, Shiyi Zhang, Guangyu Wang | Canada | Lessons learned in delivering the Innovative SFM Online Courses Amid the Pandemic |
Tuesday morning, August 17
Concurrent session 4.2, 4 & 5 Climate Change: Carbon Sequestration, Seed Transfer and Communities
5:00 am – 7:00 am | Chair: Sally Aitken
| Seongmin Shin | Korea | Contribution of planted forests to climate change mitigation and adaptation |
| Pratibha Bhatnagar | India | Nature based solutions: Carbon Sequestration by Trees in Urban Parks and Gardens of Kaitni City, Madhya Pradesh, India |
| Md Saidur Rahman | UK | Biomass estimation in mangrove forest: a comparison of allometric models incorporating species and structural information |
| Sumit Chakravarty | India | Assessment of Home gardens for Carbon Market in Sub Himalayan Region of West Bengal, India |
| Swayne Beckles | Jamaica | Mitigating Climate Change – Building National Capacity in Carbon Stock Monitoring |
| Cindy Prescott | Canada | How can we sequester more carbon in forest soils? |
Concurrent session 7. Urban Forestry
5:00 am – 6:00 am | Chair: Cecil Konijnendijk
| Yuta Uchiyama | Japan | Access to urban forestlands during the COVID-19 pandemic: influence of environmental factors and reexploring values and functions of forest |
| Snowy Baptista | India | Living with leopards in a metropolis in 21st Century India |
| Ranjit Singh Gill | India | Inadequate space for urban forest in India’s National Forest Policy – need for review |
| Robertson Richards Khataza | Malawi | Preferences for Urban Greenspace functions, COVID-19 Pandemic, and Willingness to Contribute to Conserve Nature Areas in Malawi |
Plenary (All-Conference) – Keynote 5 and 6
7:00 am – 8:00 am
| John Innes | Canada | University forestry education after the epidemic: Will anything change? |
| Shannon Hagerman | Canada | Assisted migration and the reluctant acceptance of new forest interventions as a climate adaptation strategy |
Concurrent session 1. New Markets and Applications
8:00 am – 10:00 am | Chair: Scott Renneckar
| Bala Prasad | India | Accelerated Growth in Non-Timber Forest Products Based Bioeconomy for Income Enhancement and Poverty Eradication in India and its Future Trajectory |
| Ludwig Liagre | Italy/UK | Which financing strategies can unleash forest-based industries engagement for ecosystem restoration? |
| Abosede Mustapha | Nigeria | Micromorphology and Phytochemical Screening of Anthocleista djalonensis |
| Alok Raj | Canada | Monitoring of Eco-biophysical dynamics using time-series MODIS data on GEE platform: A case of the Aravalli hills range (India) |
| Jubril Soaga | Nigeria | Economic values of ecotourism of selected natural sites |
Concurrent session 2.3. Forest Career and Collaboration
8:00 am – 10:30 am | Chair: Rob Kozak
| Mika Rekola | Finland | Forestry Education and Student Competency |
| Troy V. Lee | Canada | Learning Forest Professionals: Meeting the Challenges of 21st Century Forest Management |
| Jorma Neuvonen, Sheri-Andrews Key | Canada | Micro-Certificates in Continuing Education for Forestry Professionals |
| Casey Macaulay | Canada | What You Need to Embark on a Forestry Career in Canada |
| Sanya Sivic, Nazlyn Pirani | Canada | Helping Students Build Their Careers Through Co-operative Education |
| Ben McArthur | Canada | The Greenest Workforce: An Information Hub for Job Seekers in Canada’s Forest Sector |
| Elaine Springgay | Canada | ForYP: a Global Network for Forestry Young Professionals |
Concurrent session 4. 2, 4 & 5 Climate Change: Seed Transfer and Communities
8:00 am – 9:30 am | Chair: Sally Aitken
| Muneer Magry | India/Australia | Community perceptions on changing climatic variables and their impact on Non-timber forest products. |
| José Lopes | Cape Verde | Community Empowerment for increasing adaptation and resilience to climate change in Cabo Verde |
| Alice Gargano | Switzerland | Tree rings say where to plant cacao trees in Ivory Coast (West Africa) |
| Sally Aitken | Canada | Time to get moving: Phenotypic and genomic approaches informing assisted migration in reforestation |
Concurrent session 5. Technology and Innovation
8:00 am – 11:00 am | Chair: Chris Gaston
| Suresh Chandra Gairola | India | Emerging Technologies and Innovations for Sustainable Forest Management in India |
| Neelesh Yadav | India | Design and Development of Online Plantation Decision Support System |
| Juliana Magalhaes | Canada/Brazil | Predicting Tree Growth Application Software: an emerging technology for modelling individual tree growth |
| Vinay Sinha | India | Reimagining Forest Science within Rhetoric of Massive Plantation Program |
| Sheila Ward | United States | Tapping into historical information for tropical forest management |
| Health break | ||
| Stanislav Horzov | Ukraine | Forestry Supply Chain Management System Based Upon Blockchain Technology |
| Md. Shawkat Islam Sohel | Canada | Tropical forest water source patterns revealed by stable isotopes: a preliminary analysis of 46 neighboring species |
| Nicholas Coops | Canada | New Technologies for Forest Management |
| Rajit Gupta | India | Potential application of using full-waveform LiDAR remote sensing GEDI data with forest growth modelling in deciduous forest management |
Concurrent session 6.2. Conservation vs. Consumption: Landscape Level Approaches
8:00 am – 12:00 pm | Chair: Jeff Sayer
| Afthab Faisal Katakath | India/ Germany | Conservation Beyond Protected Areas: Significance of Human-Modified Ecosystems |
| Alicia Edwards | Jamaica | A Lesson in Resilience- Comparative Analysis of managed and non-managed Mangrove Areas in Jamaica |
| Maria Vasconcelos | Portugal | REFLOR-CV – increasing the resilience of local communities to climate change in Cabo Verde |
| Andrew Wardell | France | Moving from the proposed Two Green Walls to One Great Green Wall – a West African environmental history |
| Angeline Van Dongen | Canada | Linear restoration by happy accident: The influence of forest harvesting activities on seismic line tree and shrub regeneration in upland mixed wood boreal forests |
| Health break | ||
| Jeffrey Sayer | Canada | How change happens in forest landscapes |
| Md Abiar Rahman | Bangladesh | Growing Trees in Agriculture Landscapes for Sustaining Production and Ecosystem Services in Bangladesh |
| Nirmal Kumar Paul | Canada | Rapid Land Use Land Cover Change is a Big Challenge for Sustainable Management of the Sundarbans (Bangladesh) Ecologically Critical Area |
| Samuel Adeyanju | Canada | Learning from Community-Based Natural Resource Management in Ghana and Zambia: Lessons for integrated landscape approaches |
| Samuel F. Bartels | Canada | Impacts of retention harvesting on forest understory vascular plants: dynamics and recovery over nearly two decades in boreal mixed wood forests |
| Thirumurugan Vedagiri | India | Tree species diversity, community composition and recruitment pattern in a critical wildlife habitat of Peninsular India |
| Mike Fenger | Canada | Reforms needed for British Columbia’s timber supply review process to actively embrace all forest values. |
Concurrent session 8. 4 & 5 IUFRO Div. 6 and 9: Policy and Social Aspects
8:00 am – 11:30 am | Chair: Janette Bulkan
| Madison Stevens | Canada & India | Evaluating state responses to gender inequity in community forest governance, Uttarakhand, India |
| Stephen Wyatt | Canada | Understanding social diversity in Canada’s forest sector through quantitative data |
| D. Sarada Devi | India | Nudge: On Enhancing Adaptive Capacity and Reducing Vulnerability Levels |
| Pradip Kumar Sarker | Germany | Actor-centered policy arrangement in Bangladesh forest protected area co-management governance |
| Hang Ryeol Na | USA | International Political Economy of the Lacey Act Amendment of 2008 |
| Sen Wang | Canada | The State of Canada’s Forests Amid Three Decades of Sectoral Transformations |
| Health break | ||
| Karen Price | Canada | British Columbia Forest Policy Reforms Needed for Sustainability |
| Adinda Herdianti | Canada | Governing innovation and knowledge sharing to increase the adaptive capacity of forest industry in Quesnel, British Columbia |
| Emilio Valeri | Canada | Broader Participation Needed to Allow Forest Policies to Address New Challenges |
| Cristina Miranda Beas | Peru | The internal migration and forestry policies in Peru |
| Jean-Michel Beaudoin | Canada | Insights into employers’ attitudes and behaviors regarding Indigenous workforce diversity |
Special session: Forest Stewardship Council
8:00 am – 10:00 am | Chair: Monika Patel
| Alan Thorne | Canada/Ontario | FSC’s Global Strategy |
| Pina Gervassi | Germany/ Peru | Delivering Nature Based Solutions through forest certification, ecosystem services and restoration |
| Harrison Ochieng Kojwang | Kenya | Using FSC forest certification to promote and incentivize restoration in Africa |
| Cindy Cheng | Hong Kong/ PR China | New forest-based products – Textile sector in Asia |
| Francois Dufresne | Canada/Quebec | Leadership in caribou conservation through voluntary certification |
Tuesday afternoon, August 17
Happy Hour: Visit the Booths of our Friends and Sponsors
3:30 pm – 4:00 pm | Fast-paced speed-networking happy hour to meet and greet our supporters and friends.
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Concurrent session 8.6. IUFRO Div. 6 and 9: Indigenous Forestry
3:30 pm – 5:00 pm | Chair: Stephen Wyatt
| François-Xavier Cyr | Canada | Fairness and the implementation of a collaborative forest management agreement: The case of the Adapted Forestry Regime in Eeyou Istchee (Cree territory), Quebec, Canada. |
| Ratan Gurung | Japan | Implication of national forest and land legislation and property rights of customary leaflitter forest (Sokshing): Case from central Bhutan |
| Michelle Baumflek | USA | Managing forests for culturally significant plants in traditional Cherokee homelands |
| Tonya Smith | Canada | Following a Lil’wat approach towards reciprocal and relational forestry research |
Concurrent session 4.1. Climate Change: Wildfires
3:30 – 9:30 pm | Chair: Lori Daniels
| Maria da Conceição Almeida Colaço | Canada | REFLOR-CV: Fires, desertification and communities |
| Kelsey Copes-Gerbitz | Canada | Community Forest collaborations lead proactive wildfire management in British Columbia, Canada |
| Thomas Chen | United States | Facilitating forest fire relief through machine learning and multitemporal imagery |
| 5:00 pm 3MT Challenge (All-Conference) | ||
| 6:00 pm Poster Session (All-Conference) | ||
| 7:00 pm Keynote speaker (All-Conference) – Michael Norton (Canada) on Climate Change and Wildfires | ||
| Campfire Session continues at 8:00 pm to 9:30 pm | ||
| Mike Flannigan | Canada | Wildfires and Climate Change |
| Amy Christianson | Canada | Indigenous fire stewardship |
| Phil Burton | Canada | Addressing Anomalies in the Behaviour and Severity of Recent Large Fires in Central British Columbia |
| Lori Daniels | Canada | Wildfires in British Columbia: Causes, Consequences and Coexistence |
| Tony Bartlett | Australia | The challenges and role of fire in Australian forests under a changing climate |
3-Minute Talk Challenge (All-Conference) – Part 1 of 2
5:00 pm – 6:00 pm | MC: Nicholas Coops
| Shiva Zargar | Canada | Life cycle assessment of lignin-containing cellulose nanocrystals (LCNCs) isolation using deep eutectic solvents (DES) |
| Md. Habibur Rahman | Bangladesh | Geographical Variations of Commercial Consumption and Supply of Woodfuel and its Alternatives in Northeastern Bangladesh |
| Debbie Pierce | Canada | The impact of land ownership and deforestation in the Colombian Amazon from 2010 to 2020 on the livelihoods of rural women |
| Md. Seikh Sadiul Islam Tanvir | Bangladesh | The soil quality of the world’s largest refugee campsites located in the Hill forest of Bangladesh and the way forward to improve the soil quality |
Poster session (All-Conference) – Part 1 of 2
6:00 pm – 7:00 pm
| Lead author | Country | Title of presentation | Track |
| Md. Seikh Sadiul Islam Tanvir | Canada/ Bangladesh | The soil quality of the world’s largest refugee campsites located in the Hill forest of Bangladesh and the way forward to improve the soil quality | 4.2. Climate change: Carbon sequestration |
| Gaurav Chand Ramola | India | Bio-ecology of longhorn beetle, Xylotrechus basifuliginosus (Heller,1926) (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae), a borer of Kharsu oak (Quercus semecarpifolia Smith) trees in Western Himalayan temperate forests in India. | 4.3. Climate change: Insect outbreaks |
| Pavithra GM | India | Soil Organic Carbon stocks (SOC) and sequestration potential of Permanent Preservation Plots (PPP’s) in wet evergreen and moist deciduous forests in Central Western Ghats of Karnataka, their sustainability and land use types | 4.2. Climate change: Carbon sequestration |
| Gopal Shukla | Canada | Biomass and Carbon Storage in Gmelina arborea Plantation at Agricultural Landscape in Foothills of Eastern Himalayas | 4.2. Climate change: Carbon sequestration |
| Krishna Kumari | India | Impact of climate change in Western Himalayas: A review study | 4.4. Climate change: Seed transfer |
| Mei He | China | Current Status and Utilization of Plant phytoncides in Forest Therapy | 5. Technology and Innovation |
| Yu’an Hu | Canada | Mechanical properties and Dimensional stability of Bamboo Fiber Composites for Engineering | 5. Technology and Innovation |
| Riya Tudu Solanki | India | Status of Wood Identification in Eastern Zone of India | 5. Technology and Innovation |
| Neelesh Yadav | Canada | Knowledge Discovery through digital Inventory of Forest Diseases and Fungi of Forest Research Institute, Dehradun (India). | 5. Technology and Innovation |
| Smriti Panwar | India | Potential threats upon sustainability of Myrica esculenta in north-western Himalayas and emphasis on its conservation strategies by implementation of scientific technologies through village communities. | 5. Technology and Innovation |
| Tara Kumari | India | Productivity assessment of wheat (Triticum aestivum) and pea (Pisum sativum) under Grewia optiva based existing agrisilvicultral system in mid-hills of Central Western Himalaya, India | 6.1. Conservation: Indigenous and community forestry (policies, products) |
| Swathi Balakrishnan | India | Adaptive Potential of Teak and its Implication on Design of Conservation Strategies in India | 6.2. Conservation: Landscape level approaches |
| Digvijaysinh Rathod | India | How do low-cost in-situ soil moisture conservation measures impact ecosystem services in chirpine (Pinus roxburghii Sarg.) forest? | 6.2. Conservation: Landscape level approaches |
| Anita Tomar | India | Growth and Sustainability Through High-Density Plantation Management | 6.3. Conservation: Conservation valuation |
| Remya Unnikrishnan | Canada | Machine Learning – a Prospective Approach for Raw Drug Authentication | 6.1. Conservation: Indigenous and community forestry (policies, products) |
| Hariharan SV | Canada | Miyawaki Forest – a Feasible Way to Create Urban Forest | 7.1. Urban Forests: Benefits |
Plenary (All Conference) – Keynote 7 and 8
7:00 pm – 8:00 pm
| Kenneth Er | Singapore | The Science & Technology Behind Transforming Singapore Into a City in Nature |
| Michael Norton | Canada | Strategic Directions Towards Building Resilience to Wildland Fire in Canada |
Concurrent session 2.2. Forest Education and Cooperation
8:00 pm – 10:00 pm | Chair: Peter Marshall
| Guangyu Wang, John Innes | Canada | Asia-Pacific Forestry Education Coordination Mechanism |
| M. Al-Amin | Bangladesh | Future of Forestry Education and Career in New Normal: Collaborations and Technology Interventions |
| Youqing Luo, Yu Lin | China | Online Forestry Education in the New Era |
| Rodney Keenan | Australia | The Evolution of forest education in Australia: from forestry to landscape and ecosystem management |
| Tyson Quan | Canada | Transforming Secondary Education in British Columbia |
| Joris (Xuan) Jun | Canada | Inclusion actions for international transfer students at UBC – case study: 2+2/3+2 transfer programs between UBC Faculty of Forestry and its partner universities in China |
| Wil de Jong | Japan/ Netherlands | A comparison of forestry continuing education academic degree programs |
Wednesday morning, August 18
Plenary (All-Conference) – Keynote 9 and 10
7:00 am – 8:00 am
| Chris Quine | UK | Exchanging knowledge: reflections on improving communication |
| Suresh Chandra Gairola | India | Forests and Climate Change in India: Innovative Approaches for Carbon Sequestration |
3-Minute Talk Challenge (All-Conference), Part 2 of 2
8:00 am – 9:30 am | MC: Nicholas Coops
| Cut Augusta Mindry Anandi | Indonesia | Customary institutions as entry points for landscape governance: A study in Kapuas Hulu in West Kalimantan, Indonesia |
| Lubina P. A. | India | Sustainable management of timber bamboo plantations as a new promising ‘climate smart forestry strategy’ – a case study from India |
| Peter Thür | Switzerland | Early growth requirements of two central African timber species |
| Kamana Pokhariya | India | The legacy effect of land use land cover changes in forest types of Panna Tiger Reserve, Central India |
| Daniel Barker-Rothschild | Canada | The impact of drought-induced abiotic stress on the composition and valorization of Douglas-fir lignin |
| Angela Muthama | Kenya | Using Ecological Niche Modelling to determine the ecological requirements and geographical occurrence of Phragmanthera spp. a woody parasitic plant in Rift Valley ecoregion of Kenya |
| Kehinde Olagundoye | Nigeria | Development of Geospatial database for the permanent sample plots of Tectona grandis Lin. F plantation at the university of Ibadan, Ibadan, Oyo state. Nigeria. |
| Magdalena Jovanovic | Serbia | Conservation of Wild Pear (Pyrus pyraster (L.) Burgsd.) in Protected Area “Kosutnjak Forest” |
| Alida O’Connor | Canada | Operationalizing landscape approaches in Ghana and Zambia |
Poster session (All-Conference) – Part 2 of 2
9:00 am – 10:00 am
| Lead author | Country | Title of presentation | Track |
| Arabelle Hurlstone | Mozambique | Forest Recovery through Emission Capture | 4.2. Climate change: Carbon sequestration |
| Keith Openshaw | United States | Biomass, especially woody biomass: an essential ingredient to satisfy parts of the Paris Agreement on climate change | 4.2. Climate change: Carbon sequestration |
| Yawar Bhat | India | An account of genus Oligosita & Pseudoligosita (Chalcidoidea: Trichogrammatidae) Egg Parasitoids from Jammu & Kashmir (India) | 4.3. Climate change: Insect Outbreaks |
| Elizabeth Racine | UK | An evaluation of a gender integration workshop in Irangi Forest, Kenya | 4.5. Climate change: Communities |
| Neelesh Yadav | Canada | Biodiversity Informatics for Climate Change Studies | 4.5. Climate change: Communities |
| Oladele Amoo-Onidundu | Nigeria | Solar Energy Technology: Resorting to Renewable Energy for Socioeconomic and Ecological Development of Wood Industries in Nigeria | 4.5. Climate change: Communities |
| Phillip Kihumuro | Uganda | A Policy and Institutional Analysis of the Constraints to Retaining Trees on Farms in Uganda | 6.2. Conservation versus Consumption: Landscape level approaches |
| Yaowaret Jantakat | Canada | Spatial Distribution Modelling of Tropical Forest Types using GIS-based Cluster Analysis | 6.3. Conservation versus Consumption: Conservation valuation |
| Christina Geng | Canada | Human-wildlife Conflicts in Banff National Park: Patterns, Trends and Implications | 6.4. Conservation versus Consumption: National park management |
| Miantsia Olivier | Cameroon | Multivariate analysis of cranial measurements of Cameroon’s Blue Duiker (Cephalophus monticola Thunberg, 1789) | 6.5. Conservation versus Consumption: Wildlife management |
| Abha Manohar K | India | Urgency of Conserving a Globally Vulnerable Tropical Medicinal Tree: Saraca Asoca | 6.5. Conservation versus Consumption: Wildlife management |
| Arun Pratap Singh | India | Butterflies Associated with Different Forest Types in Western Himalaya, India | 6.5. Conservation versus Consumption: Wildlife management |
| Yaowaret Jantakat | Canada | Supporting Role of Green University on The Spatio-Temporal Change of Tree Canopy Cover | 7.1. Urban Forests: Benefits |
| Norgrove Lindsey | Canada | Urban trees can increase avian and insect diversity and abundance in tropical cities | 7.1. Urban Forests: Benefits |
| Fangbing Hu | Canada | Resident perceptions toward tourism development: a case study from Grand Canyon National Park, USA | 7.2. Urban Forests: Community engagement |
| Oyinlola Fasoro | Nigeria | Willingness of Ibadan Residents to Plant Trees to Commemorate Social Events | 7.2. Urban Forests: Community engagement |
| Wagmare Balraju | India | Most Efficient tree species (Tree Ring) using for monitoring of urban, industrial pollution area, A review | 7.3. Urban Forests: Valuation |
Plenary: Conference Recommendations (All-Conference)
10:00 am – 11:00 am
20th Commonwealth Forestry Conference – Closing Ceremony
11:00 am