1) Tropical forests are under immense pressure from agriculture and logging but protected areas alone will not save them - most biodiversity will be impacted by managed production forests.
2) While the area of protected and managed forests is growing, tropical forests continue to be destroyed at alarming rates due to factors like uncontrolled resource extraction, poor legal frameworks, and land conversion.
3) Lessons from failures and successes show that conceptual models of tropical forest management must change. Rather than focus on unrealistic sustainability, management should aim to build resilient socio-ecological systems that allow for change and uncertainty.
From the 2019 NACD Summer Conservation Forum and Tour.
With the increased occurrence of catastrophic fires and droughts, managing woodlands and forests has taken on an increase importance. Learn about different forest management techniques and how they impact the community.
This presentation by Daju Pradnja Resosudarmo
focuses on all the benefits forests provide, what problems forests still face, what is causing these problems, how we can strengthen forests in the landscape and what role Sustainable Development Goals could play.
From the 2019 NACD Summer Conservation Forum and Tour.
With the increased occurrence of catastrophic fires and droughts, managing woodlands and forests has taken on an increase importance. Learn about different forest management techniques and how they impact the community.
This presentation by Daju Pradnja Resosudarmo
focuses on all the benefits forests provide, what problems forests still face, what is causing these problems, how we can strengthen forests in the landscape and what role Sustainable Development Goals could play.
social forestry,environment and climate changeswarna dey
Social forestry is a concept that ensure ecological, economic and social benefits. It broadly refers to the management of forests by local communities to achieve various environmental, social and development goals, including climate change mitigation and adaptation, food security, nutrition and livelihood support.
This slide will discuss the environmental phenomena and relation with the climate change.
A presentation made on forest resources and sustainable forest management, laws and regulations about forests in India, the status of the world and Indian forests.
Sustainable forest management, biodiversity and carbon: The case for REDD+?CIFOR-ICRAF
Presentation by Robert Nasi.
Sustainable forest management, biodiversity and carbon: The case for REDD+?
Oaxaca Workshop Forest Governance, Decentralisation and REDD+ in Latin America and the Caribbean,
31 August – 03 September 2010, Oaxaca, Mexico.
social forestry,environment and climate changeswarna dey
Social forestry is a concept that ensure ecological, economic and social benefits. It broadly refers to the management of forests by local communities to achieve various environmental, social and development goals, including climate change mitigation and adaptation, food security, nutrition and livelihood support.
This slide will discuss the environmental phenomena and relation with the climate change.
A presentation made on forest resources and sustainable forest management, laws and regulations about forests in India, the status of the world and Indian forests.
Sustainable forest management, biodiversity and carbon: The case for REDD+?CIFOR-ICRAF
Presentation by Robert Nasi.
Sustainable forest management, biodiversity and carbon: The case for REDD+?
Oaxaca Workshop Forest Governance, Decentralisation and REDD+ in Latin America and the Caribbean,
31 August – 03 September 2010, Oaxaca, Mexico.
This presentation discusses the Pan Pac Forest Products and the Pacific Wood Products (PWP) integrated model of manufacturing.It covers operational, environmental management, supply chain, product development, communication and business issues.
Resilience Design Toolkit. 50 Ingredients for Sustainable Business Model Inno...Sebastiaan de Neubourg
The Resilience Design Toolkit is a tool for change makers.
The toolkit offers a straightforward way to integrate key sustainability principles within the core business of a company, creating a more resilient and circular economy. The tool combines resilience thinking and biomimicry and is built on basis of the Business Model Canvas.
The tool is freely available under a creative commons license.
In his seminar at ICRAF on Nov 28, Meine van Noordwijk, describes “Concepts, methods and experience with supporting negotiations and incentives for trees in multifunctional landscapes
Can we manage forests for multiple uses in the Congo Basin?CIFOR-ICRAF
Robert Nasi gave this presentation on 22 May 2013 at a discussion forum during the two-day policy and science conference entitled "Sustainable forest management in Central Africa: Yesterday, today and tomorrow", organized by CIFOR and its partners and held in Yaounde, Cameroon.
Sustainable Pastoralism on the Tibetan Plateaumarcfoggin
Plenary Lecture: Sustainable Rangelands, Sustainable Pastoralism in Yak Herding Areas of the Tibetan Plateau & Central Asia.
Delivered by Marc Foggin at the "10th International Rangeland Congress: The Future Management of Grazing and Wild Lands in a High-Tech World." Session on Range and Forage of High Latitudes and Altitudes. Conference held in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada, on 16-22 July 2016.
20 page management briefing from Innovation Forum on the latest issues and thinking around deforestation and how companies can respond to the current agenda, the partners they can work with and the opportunities ahead.
Sustainable development – meaning, social, economic and
environmental dimensions, principles of sustainable
development. Environment management systems – meaning,
scope, objectives, planning and implementation; ISO 14000;
environmental audit; 4Rs; environmental labeling. World
Business Council for Sustainable Development. Millennium
Development Goals and Sustainable
Development Goals – the role of and implications for business
Keynote presention to the 10th International Flatfish Symposium- addressing challenges for scientists when moving into the aren of the ecosystem approach tofisheries management
Wildlife: a forgotten and threatened forest resourceRobert Nasi
Protein from forest wildlife (including fish) is crucial to food security, nutrition and health across the tropics. The harvest of duikers, antelopes, pigs, primates, rodents, birds, reptiles and fish provides invaluable benefits to local people both in terms of income and of improved nutritious diets. It also creates, often linked with commercialization, some very important health issues with the spread of several life-threatening diseases (Ebola, SARS).
Vulnerability of the resource to harvest varies, with some species sustaining populations in heavily hunted secondary habitats, while others require intact forests with minimal harvesting to maintain healthy populations. Global attention has been drawn to biodiversity loss through debates regarding bushmeat, the “empty forest” syndrome and their ecological importance.
However, information on the harvest and the trade remains fragmentary, along with understanding of their ecological, socioeconomic and cultural dimensions. Here we assess the consequences, both for ecosystems and local livelihoods, of the loss of these important resources and propose alternative management options.
Managing for high value timber and biodiversity in the Congo BasinRobert Nasi
Multiple-use forest management is considered by many as a preferable alternative to single-use, generally timber-dominant, management models to ensure a greater biodiversity. In this presentation we will briefly explore the major land-uses in the Congo Basin and their actual or potential for sustaining biodiversity in a production context. We then focus on the most extant production systems (shifting cultivation, industrial logging concessions and main commodity crops) to analyze the existing issues and options for managing actively both valuable timber species and biodiversity with a special emphasis timber stands, wildlife and the potential role of certification.
We highlight a few promising but yet ‘unfinished’ examples in the region and we review these cases to draw lessons and recommendations. We contend however that true multiple-use could only be realized by expanding beyond boundaries of formal management units through new innovative land-use units, allowing a spatial cohabitation of the interests of local people, of conservation proponents and of extractive industries in the same management unit.
Epistemic Interaction - tuning interfaces to provide information for AI supportAlan Dix
Paper presented at SYNERGY workshop at AVI 2024, Genoa, Italy. 3rd June 2024
https://alandix.com/academic/papers/synergy2024-epistemic/
As machine learning integrates deeper into human-computer interactions, the concept of epistemic interaction emerges, aiming to refine these interactions to enhance system adaptability. This approach encourages minor, intentional adjustments in user behaviour to enrich the data available for system learning. This paper introduces epistemic interaction within the context of human-system communication, illustrating how deliberate interaction design can improve system understanding and adaptation. Through concrete examples, we demonstrate the potential of epistemic interaction to significantly advance human-computer interaction by leveraging intuitive human communication strategies to inform system design and functionality, offering a novel pathway for enriching user-system engagements.
LF Energy Webinar: Electrical Grid Modelling and Simulation Through PowSyBl -...DanBrown980551
Do you want to learn how to model and simulate an electrical network from scratch in under an hour?
Then welcome to this PowSyBl workshop, hosted by Rte, the French Transmission System Operator (TSO)!
During the webinar, you will discover the PowSyBl ecosystem as well as handle and study an electrical network through an interactive Python notebook.
PowSyBl is an open source project hosted by LF Energy, which offers a comprehensive set of features for electrical grid modelling and simulation. Among other advanced features, PowSyBl provides:
- A fully editable and extendable library for grid component modelling;
- Visualization tools to display your network;
- Grid simulation tools, such as power flows, security analyses (with or without remedial actions) and sensitivity analyses;
The framework is mostly written in Java, with a Python binding so that Python developers can access PowSyBl functionalities as well.
What you will learn during the webinar:
- For beginners: discover PowSyBl's functionalities through a quick general presentation and the notebook, without needing any expert coding skills;
- For advanced developers: master the skills to efficiently apply PowSyBl functionalities to your real-world scenarios.
Slack (or Teams) Automation for Bonterra Impact Management (fka Social Soluti...Jeffrey Haguewood
Sidekick Solutions uses Bonterra Impact Management (fka Social Solutions Apricot) and automation solutions to integrate data for business workflows.
We believe integration and automation are essential to user experience and the promise of efficient work through technology. Automation is the critical ingredient to realizing that full vision. We develop integration products and services for Bonterra Case Management software to support the deployment of automations for a variety of use cases.
This video focuses on the notifications, alerts, and approval requests using Slack for Bonterra Impact Management. The solutions covered in this webinar can also be deployed for Microsoft Teams.
Interested in deploying notification automations for Bonterra Impact Management? Contact us at sales@sidekicksolutionsllc.com to discuss next steps.
Essentials of Automations: Optimizing FME Workflows with ParametersSafe Software
Are you looking to streamline your workflows and boost your projects’ efficiency? Do you find yourself searching for ways to add flexibility and control over your FME workflows? If so, you’re in the right place.
Join us for an insightful dive into the world of FME parameters, a critical element in optimizing workflow efficiency. This webinar marks the beginning of our three-part “Essentials of Automation” series. This first webinar is designed to equip you with the knowledge and skills to utilize parameters effectively: enhancing the flexibility, maintainability, and user control of your FME projects.
Here’s what you’ll gain:
- Essentials of FME Parameters: Understand the pivotal role of parameters, including Reader/Writer, Transformer, User, and FME Flow categories. Discover how they are the key to unlocking automation and optimization within your workflows.
- Practical Applications in FME Form: Delve into key user parameter types including choice, connections, and file URLs. Allow users to control how a workflow runs, making your workflows more reusable. Learn to import values and deliver the best user experience for your workflows while enhancing accuracy.
- Optimization Strategies in FME Flow: Explore the creation and strategic deployment of parameters in FME Flow, including the use of deployment and geometry parameters, to maximize workflow efficiency.
- Pro Tips for Success: Gain insights on parameterizing connections and leveraging new features like Conditional Visibility for clarity and simplicity.
We’ll wrap up with a glimpse into future webinars, followed by a Q&A session to address your specific questions surrounding this topic.
Don’t miss this opportunity to elevate your FME expertise and drive your projects to new heights of efficiency.
Software Delivery At the Speed of AI: Inflectra Invests In AI-Powered QualityInflectra
In this insightful webinar, Inflectra explores how artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming software development and testing. Discover how AI-powered tools are revolutionizing every stage of the software development lifecycle (SDLC), from design and prototyping to testing, deployment, and monitoring.
Learn about:
• The Future of Testing: How AI is shifting testing towards verification, analysis, and higher-level skills, while reducing repetitive tasks.
• Test Automation: How AI-powered test case generation, optimization, and self-healing tests are making testing more efficient and effective.
• Visual Testing: Explore the emerging capabilities of AI in visual testing and how it's set to revolutionize UI verification.
• Inflectra's AI Solutions: See demonstrations of Inflectra's cutting-edge AI tools like the ChatGPT plugin and Azure Open AI platform, designed to streamline your testing process.
Whether you're a developer, tester, or QA professional, this webinar will give you valuable insights into how AI is shaping the future of software delivery.
Transcript: Selling digital books in 2024: Insights from industry leaders - T...BookNet Canada
The publishing industry has been selling digital audiobooks and ebooks for over a decade and has found its groove. What’s changed? What has stayed the same? Where do we go from here? Join a group of leading sales peers from across the industry for a conversation about the lessons learned since the popularization of digital books, best practices, digital book supply chain management, and more.
Link to video recording: https://bnctechforum.ca/sessions/selling-digital-books-in-2024-insights-from-industry-leaders/
Presented by BookNet Canada on May 28, 2024, with support from the Department of Canadian Heritage.
Dev Dives: Train smarter, not harder – active learning and UiPath LLMs for do...UiPathCommunity
💥 Speed, accuracy, and scaling – discover the superpowers of GenAI in action with UiPath Document Understanding and Communications Mining™:
See how to accelerate model training and optimize model performance with active learning
Learn about the latest enhancements to out-of-the-box document processing – with little to no training required
Get an exclusive demo of the new family of UiPath LLMs – GenAI models specialized for processing different types of documents and messages
This is a hands-on session specifically designed for automation developers and AI enthusiasts seeking to enhance their knowledge in leveraging the latest intelligent document processing capabilities offered by UiPath.
Speakers:
👨🏫 Andras Palfi, Senior Product Manager, UiPath
👩🏫 Lenka Dulovicova, Product Program Manager, UiPath
Neuro-symbolic is not enough, we need neuro-*semantic*Frank van Harmelen
Neuro-symbolic (NeSy) AI is on the rise. However, simply machine learning on just any symbolic structure is not sufficient to really harvest the gains of NeSy. These will only be gained when the symbolic structures have an actual semantics. I give an operational definition of semantics as “predictable inference”.
All of this illustrated with link prediction over knowledge graphs, but the argument is general.
DevOps and Testing slides at DASA ConnectKari Kakkonen
My and Rik Marselis slides at 30.5.2024 DASA Connect conference. We discuss about what is testing, then what is agile testing and finally what is Testing in DevOps. Finally we had lovely workshop with the participants trying to find out different ways to think about quality and testing in different parts of the DevOps infinity loop.
Elevating Tactical DDD Patterns Through Object CalisthenicsDorra BARTAGUIZ
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Encryption in Microsoft 365 - ExpertsLive Netherlands 2024Albert Hoitingh
In this session I delve into the encryption technology used in Microsoft 365 and Microsoft Purview. Including the concepts of Customer Key and Double Key Encryption.
UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series, part 4DianaGray10
Welcome to UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series part 4. In this session, we will cover Test Manager overview along with SAP heatmap.
The UiPath Test Manager overview with SAP heatmap webinar offers a concise yet comprehensive exploration of the role of a Test Manager within SAP environments, coupled with the utilization of heatmaps for effective testing strategies.
Participants will gain insights into the responsibilities, challenges, and best practices associated with test management in SAP projects. Additionally, the webinar delves into the significance of heatmaps as a visual aid for identifying testing priorities, areas of risk, and resource allocation within SAP landscapes. Through this session, attendees can expect to enhance their understanding of test management principles while learning practical approaches to optimize testing processes in SAP environments using heatmap visualization techniques
What will you get from this session?
1. Insights into SAP testing best practices
2. Heatmap utilization for testing
3. Optimization of testing processes
4. Demo
Topics covered:
Execution from the test manager
Orchestrator execution result
Defect reporting
SAP heatmap example with demo
Speaker:
Deepak Rai, Automation Practice Lead, Boundaryless Group and UiPath MVP
To Graph or Not to Graph Knowledge Graph Architectures and LLMs
Sustainable Forest Management: is everything in order but the patient still dying?
1. Sustainable Forest
Management:
Is Everything in Order but the
Patient Still Dying?
Robert Nasi,
Center for International Forestry Research
Session 147: Demonstrating Sustainable Forest Management
XXII IUFRO WORLD CONGRESS
8-13 August 2005, Brisbane
4. Tropical forests
Are the most biodiversity rich terrestrial
ecosystem but are under unprecedented
pressure for agricultural land and forest
goods and services
Protected areas are essential to conserve
tropical forests and their biodiversity but
protected areas alone won’t work
Most of the important biodiversity will be
conserved or lost in managed forests used
to produce timber and other goods.
5. Some recent positive trends
The area of tropical forests under protection has
increased dramatically
The area of tropical forests under formal
management is quickly increasing
New, powerful management tools are available
Markets value forests for what they are
(certification, payment for environmental services)
A growing proportion of forests is owned and/or
managed by communities living in and by these
forests
We witness emerging new paradigms for natural
resource management
7. Reality check
Tropical forests continue to be destroyed or
degraded at an alarming rate
A large part of tropical forests, either or not in
protected areas, either owned or not by
communities, is still in a situation of
uncontrolled harvesting of forest resources (from logging
to hunting or NTFP collection)
under antiquated, inadequate and poorly enforced legal
frameworks
facing increasing land conversion for agriculture and
spontaneous colonization
with widespread corruption at all levels
8. Reality check, managed timber
production forests
Basic tenets, from European models ‘exported’ to
the tropics in the 50s, have not really changed
Existing plans are often based on unrealistic
prescriptions hindering their adoption by a large
part of the operators or pushing them into illegal
activities
Concern mainly large concessions in untouched
forests whereas there is an increasing number of
small to medium scale enterprises working in
secondary or logged-over forests.
9. Reality check, success stories
There is however a growing portfolio of (partial)
successes in managing tropical forests for
production:
Managed timber concessions (Latin America, Africa,
South-East Asia)
Joint Forest Management (India)
Community based forestry (Central America and Mexico,
Nepal)
Environmental NGOs - logging companies partnerships
(Central Africa, Indonesia)
11. Lessons learned
We must change the main conceptual model of
tropical forest management, look for new
paradigms and apply them
We need to rethink our concept of sustainability in
the context of the management of production
tropical forests
12. Lessons learned: shifting
paradigms
The long-standing approach to management of
(marine) resources is based on a flawed
conceptual model: the ‘optimal’ harvesting of
targeted stocks in systems that are assumed
to be reasonably stable
An emerging approach rejects this paradigm in
favor of management practices that recognize
coupled socio-ecological systems that are
characterized by complex dynamics and
thresholds, with multiple possible
outcomes and inherent uncertainties
Hughes et al. (2005)
13. Lessons learned: shifting
paradigms
Sustained production of a single commodity
(sustained yield forestry)
Sustained production of multiple goods and
services (multiple use forestry)
Sustained production of multiple goods and
services while maintaining future options and
not damaging other ecosystems (sustainable
forest management)
Strategy for the integrated management of
land, water and living resources that promotes
conservation and sustainable use in an
equitable way (ecosystem approach, INRM)
14. Lessons learned: sustainability
None of the actual forest management
approaches is really ‘sustainable’ in the tropical
forest context
Forest composition inevitably change
Some species are lost or become to rare for use
New ecosystems emerge with new properties
Altered ecosystems will not revert to their original
wilderness condition by relieving stressors (e.g. logging)
Success stories are more about building resilient
adaptable socio-ecological systems than about
achieving sustainability
15. Lessons learned: sustainability
The following points appear essential in building
resilient socio-ecological systems:
consider both people’s interests and natural resources
mix top-down and bottom-up approaches
rely on partnerships and negotiated approaches
recognize and use local knowledge
avoid complex or unrealistic rules and regulations
monitor carefully but allow for adaptation and learning
foster and use technical progress
taylor-made management solutions are always superior
to generic ones
16. Lessons learned, in summary…
Do not try to achieve “Sustainability”
Avoid irreversibility
Allow change but manage for resilience
Recognize linkages between environment and
people
Recognize that uncertainty is inevitable and design
flexible management regimes
Do not wait, take decisions based upon a careful
assessment of potential risks and costs
Learn by doing and from others and use what you
have learned
18. Is the ‘managed’ patient dying?
My answer is ‘no’ but it is sure suffering and will
certainly change because of us
We must learn to adapt our management to the
emerging new modified ecosystems we created
and not only focus on ‘primary-like’ ecosystems
We should envision Sustainable Forest
Management as a co-evolutionary process
between the changing forest, the changing market
and an industry moving toward higher efficiency
standards over time
The aim should be maintenance of functional
forest ecosystems providing a continuous flow of
goods and services
19. Some implications for forestry
research
The endless search of a globally accepted
definition of SFM is pointless
Research should consider various scales both
spatial and temporal; results from short term, local
experiments should be used with caution and
always subject to revision
Forestry researchers should open-up, learn from
and team up with others (health, marine sector)
Disciplinary approaches are doomed to fail and
trans-disciplinary training should become part of
forest research curriculums