Upcoming Meetings

The Second Mediterranean Forest Week (Avignon, France, 5-8 April 2011)

The 2011 Mediterranean Forests Week will bring together relevant stakeholders working on/for Mediterranean forests and forestry: EFIMED, FAO and its Silva Mediterranea Committee, AIFM, ARCMED, MFMN, GTZ, COFOR, USSE. The Ministry of Agriculture of France, the PACA region and INRA will host such initiative aiming at providing a dynamic platform where the scientific community, the policy-makers and key stakeholders meet to network and debate around strategic policy-relevant questions. The Forest Fire Working Group Meeting will be held on 5 April 2011.

• Conference website: http://www.efimed.efi.int/portal/events/mfw2011/

• II Mediterranean Forest Week 2011 Agenda (PDF, 0.1 MB)

Meetings recently held

Workshop on Assessment of Forest Fire Risks and Innovative Strategies for Fire Prevention in Europe (Rhodes, Greece, 4-7 May 2010)
The workshop was co-organized by the Greek General Directorate of Development and Protection of Forests and Natural Environment, the Department of Forests of Republic of Cyprus, the Union of South European Foresters (USSE), the Ministerial Conference of the Protection of Forests in Europe (FOREST EUROPE), the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE) and the Silva Mediterranea Committee. The objectives of the workshop were to review the current national forest fire prevention systems in European Countries, to identify innovative strategies, best available practices and possible policy instruments, and to develop policy conclusions and recommendations in relation to forest fire prevention in Europe.

• Workshop Report

Workshop on Forest Fires in the Mediterranean Region: Prevention and Regional Cooperation (2008)

The Workshop was organized in Sabaudia, Italy, from 12 to 15 May 2008, by the Corpo Forestale dello Stato (CFS) of Italy and FAO, with the support of the Silva Mediterranea Working Group on Forest Fires and the Joint Research Centre (JRC) of the European Commission in Ispra, Italy. The report is found on the website of FAO:

• ftp://ftp.fao.org/docrep/fao/010/k2891e/k2891e00.pdf
• Mirrored at GFMC: Sabaudia-Fire-Workshop-Report-2008 (PDF, 0.5 MB)

Other conferences

See GFMC Web page containing regularly updated announcements of wildland fire meetings:

http://www.fire.uni-freiburg.de/course/meeting.htm

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