DAAD Forest Asia Workshop

Revision as of 14:40, 12 February 2014

The Chair of Forest Inventory and Remote Sensing at the Georg-August-Universität Göttingen is this year hosting the 4th International DAAD Alumni and Student Workshop on "Ecological and Economic Challenges of Managing Forested Landscapes in a Global Context - Focus: Asia” that will take place in Bogor and Jakarta (16. - 22. March 2014). For more information on the background and history of our workshop series along international conferences see DAAD FD5 Workshop or DAAD FD6 Workshop!

Background

Forests and trees outside the forest play a relevant role in all three great UN conventions (on Climate Change, on Biodiversity, and on Combatting Desertification). The policy processes to implement the measures in these conventions on sub-national, national, regional and international level are extremely complex. And that complexity comes, among other factors, from a blend of different sectoral and national interests, from a large number of scientifically not yet entirely resolved issues and a wide range of different biophysical, social, cultural and political conditions all over the world. It is a challenge for academia to educate the future decision makers (who are our students today) in a way that they are enthusiastic about the overall relevance of these processes – but also about the many details that are to be worked on. And it is a challenge to integrate this education into regular curricula because various dimensions need to be covered in a field that is rapidly further developing. On the other hand, these processes offer a unique possibility to illustrate the important – and sometimes somewhat neglected – science-policy interface. The Faculty of Forest Sciences and Forest Ecology started in 2010 to implement a new format of what we would call “long-term / sustainable national capacity building”: we organize a workshop on “Forest and Climate” for master-students and professors from partner universities (alumni of German universities)

Guest lectures

The program for our workshop is divided in two parts. Before we meet on our workshop in Bogor and Jakarta there will be an introductory seminar with guest lectures held at the University of Göttingen. These presentations will give an introduction to the climate change- policy process and the role of forests in this context. The lectures are open to all interested. For those students who are not in Göttingen and for the international alumni participating in our workshop, a comprehensive abstract will be prepared. We are happy about high level speakers.

Introduction seminar papers (29.01.2014, Aula am Waldweg, U Göttingen)

The presentations will be held at Wednesday, 29. January 2014 from 8:30 to 13:00 in the Aula am Waldweg. The seminar is open for public.

08:30 - 09:30 Knowledge brokering in a challenging global context

Dr. Cornelis Van Tuyll, Senior Advisor GIZ (retired)

Dr. Van Tuyll is retired from GIZ, the German Agency for International Cooperation, and has been working as advisor forestry Asia, as Head of the Department of Agriculture, Forestry and Rural Development in GIZ. He has 30 years of experience in technical cooperation in particular in SE Asia.

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09:30 - 10:30 Forests and land use in the tropics: challenges in their role in climate change mitigation and adaptation

Prof. Dr. Markku Kanninen, University of Helsinki, Finnland

Prof. Kanninen is a professor of Tropical Silviculture. He was formerly scientific director at CATIE, Costa Rica, and at CIFOR, Indonesia. He is a member of the UNFCCC Adaptation Fund Board.

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10:30 - 11:00 Coffe break

11:00 - 12:00 Forest Sciences have an important place in the international agriculural research system! Opportunities for collaboration

Dr. Marlene Diekmann, GIZ, Bonn,

Dr. Diekmann is Senior Advisor, Advisory Group on International Agricultural Research, German Agency for International Cooperation (GIZ)

12:00 - 13:00 Sustainable intensification and landscape approach: Silver bullets for REDD+ implementation?

Dr. Timm Tennigkeit, UNIQUE forestry and land use GmbH, Freiburg

Dr. Tennigkeit is a managing director of UNIQUE forestry and land use GmbH and has comprehensive experience in the implementation of carbon forestry projects in Africa and Asia.

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Workshop Program (16. - 22.03.2014, Bogor and Jakarta)

Sunday 16th March: Arrival Day

All Day: Arrival of participants, Transfer from Airport to Bogor

18:30 - 20:00: Internal meeting of organization committee

Monday 17th March: 1st Workshop Day at IPB, Bogor

10:30 - 11:00: Registration

11:00 - 11:30: Welcome and Opening Addresses, NN and Prof. I Nengah Surati Jaya (TBC)

11:30 - 12:00: Keynote paper: On forestry issues in Indonesia Prof. Bambang, Dean of Faculty of Forestry, IPB (TBC)

12:00 - 13:00: Lunch break

Session: Diversity

Moderation: Dr. Hans Fuchs, Session Minutes Natalia Eyes Tejada, Peter Achuu

13:00 - 13:20: Forest diversity and its implications for biomass estimation approaches in Indonesia, Intan Edriani; Edwine Purnama, U Göttingen

13:20 - 13:40: Study on the Stand Spatial Structure and Species Diversity of different forest types, Wu Ping, U Hefei

13:40 - 14:00: Managing Himalayan biodiversity : A case of assessment and monitoring of Medicinal and Aromatic Plants (MAPs) in Nepal, Bharat Budhathapa

14:00 - 14:20: The Success and Failure of Biodiversity Conservation in Indonesia, Dr. Satyawan Pudyatmoko

Session: Water

Moderation: Prof. Dr. Hanns Höfle, Session Minutes Ruffy Rodrigo, Sabina Maiya Prajapati

14:20 - 14:40: Integrated Management of Forest, Water and Land resources : Opportunities in Nepal and Zambia, Likulunga Emmanuel Likulunga; Sabina Maiya Prajapati

14:40 - 15:00: Study so the properties and water conservation function of the soil of the natural secondary broad-leaved forests in North sub-tropical, Qing-feng Huang, U Hefei

15:00 - 15:20: Forest, Water and People in India, Marimuthuram Mahendran

15:20 - 15:50: Coffee/tea break

Session: Carbon

Moderation: Dr. Paul Magdon, Session Minutes Wu Ping, Dian Melati

15:50 - 16:10: Soil Carbon Sequestration under different land use systems in Attapady Valley of Nilgiri Biosphere Reserve, Western Ghats, India, Sowmya Chandramouli

16:10 - 16:30: The Carbon Impacts of forest restoration of natural degraded forest in Ha Tinh Province, Vietnam, Chien Nguyen The

16:10 - 16:30: An overview of carbon forestry in China, Haijun Yang

Tuesday 18th March: 2nd Workshop Day at CIFOR, Bogor

Session: CIFOR

Moderation: NN, Session Minutes Mac Elikem Kwabla Nutsuakor, Pradip Kumar Sarker

8:30-10:00: Transport to CIFOR Campus

10:00 - 10:20: Welcome address (NN CIFOR), Welcome address by the scientific counselor of the German Empassy to Indonesia (Dr. Rottmann, TBC)

10:20 - 11:00: Presentation: CIFORs Strategy in Global Forest Research, NN, CIFOR

11:00 - 11:30: Coffee/tea break

11:30 - 12:00: Presentation 1: CIFOR Specific Topic, NN, CIFOR

12:00 - 12:30: Presentation 2: CIFOR Specific Topic, NN, CIFOR

12:30 - 13:30: Lunch break

Session: Higher education in forestry

Moderation: Prof. Dr. Christoph Kleinn, Session Minutes Likulunga Emmanuel Likulunga, Yayan Wahyu Candra Kusuma

13:30 - 13:50: Expectations on forest academic education, Prof. Dr. Achim Dohrenbusch, U Göttingen

13:50 - 14:10: What does CIFOR expect — what dos CIFOR offer regarding academic forstry education?, NN, CIFOR, tbc

14:10 - 14:30: Work-integrated Learning in Forestry Education in South Africa: From Theory to Practice, Cori Ham; Antoinette Smith-Tolken, U Stellenbosch

14:30 - 14:50: The role of field labs in academic forestry education, Prof. Dr. Hanns Höfle, U Götingen

14:50 - 15:10: International forest related education in Germany – an overview , Sabine Schreiner, U Göttingen

Wednesday 19th March: 3rd Workshop Day at IPB, Bogor

Session: Applications

Moderation: Dr. Haijun Yang, Session Minutes Bharat Buhatapa, Sowmya Chandramouli

09:30 - 09:50: Hyperspectral data for forest inventories, Henning Aberle, U Göttingen

09:50 - 10:20: Comparing digital elevation models for illumination correction of satellite images in mountainous landscapes of Anhui Province, China, Dr. Hans Fuchs; Nils Nölke, U Göttingen

10:20 - 10:50: Coffee/tea break

10:50 - 11:10: Comparing the precision of biomass estimates from a sample based forest inventory and a model-assisted approach utilizing small footprint LiDAR data. A case study from a tropical peat swamp forest in Central Kalimantan, Dr. Paul Magdon, U Göttingen

11:10 - 11:30: Comparison of basal area estimated from angle count method and fixed area plots; a case study in tropical peat swamp forest, Yanti Sarodja, U Göttingen

11:30 - 11:50: Allometry of big buttress trees - A challenge for forest monitoring, Nils Nölke, Prof. Dr. I Nengha Surati Jaya, Dr. Lutz Fehrmann, Prof. Dr. Christoph Kleinn, U Göttingen

11:50 - 13:00: Lunch break

Session 4

Moderation: NN, Session Minutes NN

13:00 - 13:30: Seminar Paper, NN

13:30 - 14:00: Seminar Paper, NN

14:00 - 14:30: Seminar Paper, NN

14:30 - 15:00: Seminar Paper, NN

15:00 - 15:20: Wrap-up and closing Remarks, NN

Thursday 20th March: 4th Workshop day at CIFOR, Bogor

Moderation: NN, Session Minutes NN

10:00 - 13:30: Program at CIFOR to be announced

Afternoon: Transfer to Jakarta

Friday 21th March: 5th Workshop day in Jakarta

9:00 - 10:30:

10:30 - 11:00:

12:00 - 13:00: Lunch break

13:00 - 15:30: Visiting DAAD Office in Jakarta

18:00 - 18:45: TBA

Saturday 22nd March: 6th Workshop day in Jakarta

8:00 - 9:00: Final discussion on workshop outputs, Evaluation session and compilation of suggestions

9:00 - 10:30: Closing plenary

10:30 - 11:00: Break

Thereafter: Departure to Airport

Workshop venue

Details about the workshop venue and planned field trip will be announced soon

Travel information

• Bogor (Wikitravel.org)
• Bogor (Wikipedia)
• Bogor Botanical Gardens