The Chair of Forest Inventory and Remote Sensing at the Georg-August-Universität Göttingen together with the Lab of Remote Sensing And GIS, Forest Resources Inventory, Faculty of Forestry, IPB 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

Prof. Dr. Christoph Kleinn

Dr. Cornelis Van Tuyll

Dr. Timm Tennigkeit, UNIQUE forestry and land use GmbH

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 Download Presentation

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.

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

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.

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? Download Presentation

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.

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

Sunday 16 March: Arrival Day

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

19:30: Welcome Dinner, Amaris Hotel Padjajaran Bogor

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

Monday 17 March: Workshop at IPB, Bogor (Day 1)

Our workshop in the media: click here to stream video on greenTV!

09:00 - 10:00: Transfer from Amaris Hotel to IPB Campus Dramaga

10:00 - 10:30: Arrival at IPB - Registration of participants

10:30 - 11:00: Welcome and Opening Addresses, Prof. Dr. Hery Suhardiyanto, Rector of IPB, Dr. Uwe Muuß, Director International Office, U Göttingen

Organizational issues, Prof. Dr. Christoph Kleinn, U Göttingen

Moderation: Prof. Dr. Yusuf Sudohadi, Session Minutes: Peter Achuu, Ruffy Rodrigo and Sabina Maiya Prajapati

11:00 - 11:30: Keynote paper: Forestry in Indonesia Prof. Dr. Ir. Bambang, Dean of Faculty of Forestry, IPB

Session 1: Carbon

Map overview of presented topics (click to enlarge). Students and alumni from 14 different countries worked jointly on relevant contributions to the workshop topic. Prepared by Edwine Purnama.

11:30 - 11:50: An overview of carbon forestry in China, Dr. Haijun Yang, U Göttingen

11:50 - 12:10: The Carbon Impacts of forest restoration of natural degraded forest in Ha Tinh Province, Vietnam, Chien Nguyen The, SVN Ho Chi Minh City

12:10 - 12:30: Soil Carbon Stock under different land use systems in Attapady Valley of Nilgiri Biosphere Reserve, Western Ghats, India, Sowmya Chandramouli, IWST Bangalore

12:30 - 13:30: Lunch break

Session 2: Diversity

Moderation: Cornelis Ham, Session Minutes: Meena Suyal Chhetri and Natalia Reyes Tejada

13:30 - 13:50: The Success and Failure of Biodiversity Conservation in Indonesia, Dr. Satyawan Pudyatmoko, UGM Yogyakarta

13:50 - 14:10: Managing Himalayan biodiversity : A case of assessment and monitoring of Medicinal and Aromatic Plants (MAPs) in Nepal, Bharat Budhathapa, MFSC Nepal

14:10 - 14:30: Forest diversity and its implications for biomass estimation approaches in Indonesia, Intan Edriani, U Jambi; Edwine Purnama, U Göttingen

14:30 - 14:50: Study on the Stand Spatial Structure and Species Diversity of different forest types, Wu Ping, AAU Hefei

14:50 - 15:20: Coffee/tea break

Session 3: Water

Session Minutes: Henning Aberle and Sabine Schreiner

15:20 - 15:40: Integrated Management of Forest, Water and Land resources: Opportunities in Nepal and Zambia, Likulunga Emmanuel Likulunga; Sabina Maiya Prajapati, U Göttingen

15:40 - 16:00: Soil Properties and Water Conservation Function of the Natural Secondary Broad-leaved Forests in Northern Sub-Tropics, Prof. Dr. Qing-Feng Huang, AAU Hefei

16:00 - 16:20: Forest, Water and People in India, Marimuthuram Mahendran, U Göttingen

Tuesday 18 March: Workshop at CIFOR, Bogor (Day 2)

Session 4: CIFOR

Moderation: Prof. Dr. Achim Dohrenbusch, Session Minutes: Mac Elikem Kwabla Nutsuakor, Pradip Kumar Sarker

08:30 - 10:00: Transfer to CIFOR headquarter, Bogor

10:00 - 10:20: Welcome address, CIFOR’s research portfolio and directions, Dr. Christine Padoch, Director of Forests & Livelihoods, CIFOR

10:20 - 10:50: Climate change research at CIFOR, Dr .Christopher Martius, Coordinator, Forests & Climate Change, CIFOR

10:50 - 11:20: Coffee/tea break

11:20 - 11:40: How land use change affects Carbon storage on tropical peat, Sebastian Perch, Forests & Climate Change, CIFOR

11:40 - 12:00: Gender at CIFOR, Dr. Bimbeka Basnett, Tenure and Gender, CIFOR

12:00 - 13:00: Lunch break

Session 5: Workshop focused on higher education in forestry: Mainstreaming forest-related global challenges into the academic forestry curricula

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

13:00 - 13:10: Introduction, Dr. Uwe Muuß, Director International Office, U Göttingen

13:10 - 13:30: Expectations on forest academic education, Prof. Dr. Achim Dohrenbusch, U Göttingen

13:30 - 13:50: Forestry Education & CIFOR, Mani Banjade; Jessica Clendenning, CIFOR

13:50 - 14:10: Work-integrated learning in forestry education in South Africa: From theory to practice, Cori Ham; Dr. Antoinette Smith-Tolken, U Stellenbosch

14:10 - 14:30: The role of field labs in academic forestry education, Prof. Dr. Hanns Höfle, U Göttingen

14:30 - 14:50: International forest related education in Germany – an overview, Sabine Schreiner, U Göttingen

Wednesday 19 March: Workshop at IPB City campus, Bogor; Afternoon: Collaboration with Bogor Botanical Garden - LIPI (Day 3)

Moderation: Dr. Vindhya Prasad Tewari, Session Minutes: Aprian Retno Kusumaningtyas, Sowmya Chandramouli and Edwine Purnama

Session 6: Applications

09:00 - 09:20: Hyperspectral data for forest inventories, Henning Aberle, U Göttingen

09:20 - 09:40: Comparing digital elevation models for illumination correction of satellite images in mountainous landscapes of Anhui Province, China, Dr. Hans Fuchs; Nils Nölke, U Göttingen

09:40 - 10:00: 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

10:00 - 10:30: Coffee/tea break

10:30 - 10:50: Is it possible to monitor forest degradation with a single inventory? A case study in peat swamp forest in Indonesia, Dr. César Pérez-Cruzado, U Göttingen

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