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Workshop Program

The science policy gap regarding informed decisi-

ons in forest policy and forest management:

what scientific information are policy makers really

interested in?

Santiago de Chile

13.11.2016 - 19.11.2016

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Photos by Philip Beckschäfer

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Organized and implemented by:

Chair of Forest Inventory and Remote Sensing

Faculty of Forest Sciences and Forest Ecology

Georg-August University Göttingen

Together with:

Institute of Forest and Society

Department of Forest Sciences and Natural Resources

Southern University of Chile

funded by:

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Program

Sunday 13th November: Arrival Day

All Day Arrival of the participants at Santiago de Chile

airport and transfer from the airport to the hotel

Monday 14th November: Workshop Day

Moderation/Minutes: Kumar Bahadur Darjee and George Ofori Ankomah

Supervisor: Marco Gonzales

09:00 – 09:30 Welcome and opening address;

Christoph Kleinn

09:30 - 10:00 Introductory words and program introduction;

Christoph Kleinn, Victor Sandoval

10:00 - 10:30 Best practice in scientific writing—Alina Kleinn

10:30 - 11:00 Coffee beak

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Program

SESSION 1 - Conservation & Biodiversity

Moderation/Minutes: Jhenny Salgado and Kevin Jair Hernández Bado

Supervisor: José Imaña

11:00 - 11:20 Use and conservation of biodiversity - Inventory

and assessment of ecosystems with relict tree

species as a tool for establishing criteria for

forest public policy - Eduardo Treviño

11:20 - 11:40 Property size as determinant of forest conservati-

on in Chile: Implications for policy design -

Ricardo González Jimenez Jerarquía

11:40 - 12:00 Zoning of an agrisilviculture System: Organic

coffee production in Santa Cruz Island -

Galápagos - Alejandra Valdés & Ysabel Perdomo

12:00 - 13:30 Lunch break

SESSION 2 - Participatory forerst management

Moderation/Minutes: Alejandra Valdés and Ysabel Perdomo

Supervisor: Christian Velasco

13:30 - 13:50 The integrated naranjilla round table -

Christian Velasco

13:50 - 14:10 The implementation of community based forestry

as REDD+ activity: Comparative study in Indonesia

and Ethiopia - Shibire Bekele Eshetu & Sonya Dyah

Kusumadewi

14:10 - 14:30 Community forstry in Nepal and Mexico: Concept,

learning, challenges and way forward - Fátima del

Carmen Acevedo Benìtez & Arun Parajuli

14:30 - 14:50 Recognising the ancestral land and biodiversity

conservation efforts of indigenous people in

Quinchao municipality using GIS- and

participatory 3D-mapping tool - Precious Annie

Lopez & Nolwenn Boucher

14:50 - 15:20 Coffee break

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Program

SESSION 3 - Forest inventory and decision support

Moderation/Minutes: Rebeca Campos Valverde and Frederick Dadzie

Supervisor: Mauricio Vega

15:20 - 15:40 Effect of timber enumeration errors on timber

value and decision making - Cori Ham

15:40 - 16:00 Investigating the effect of logging and the

optimum sampling design in the tropical forests

of Papua New Guinea - Riccardo Testolin

16:00 - 16:20 Geographic Information System of urban forestry

Pereira, Colombia - Gustavo Cardona

16:20 - 16:40 Zoning organic management of Maqui (Aristotelia

chilensis) in the region of Los Ríos, Chile -

Julio Gerding Vegas & Milton Serpa

16:40 - 17:00 Coffee break

17:00 - 18:30 Group working session

19:30 Dinner

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Program

Tuesday 15th November: Workshop Day

SESSION 4 - Land use change conflicts

Moderation/Minutes: Shibire Bekele Eshetu and Sonya Dyah Kusumadewi

Supervisor: Stefan Erasmi

09:00 – 09:20 Land use and land use change in forestry (LULUCF). A

status quo of forestry resources and policy intervention to

forest dependents (livelihood) - Vianny Ahimbisibwe &

Thakur Prasad Magrati

09:20 - 09:40 Coverage and land use changes - Nayadeth Damari

Muñoz Gómez & Julia Pintos

09:40 - 10:00 Illegal gold mining in Amazon Rainforest: the peruvian

capital of biodiversity at risk of an environmental

catastrophy - Rodrigo Vera

10:00 - 10:30 Coffee break

SESSION 5 – Methods in Remote Sensing

Moderation/Minutes: Fátima del Carmen Acevedo Benìtez and Arun Parajuli

Supervisor: Eduardo Treviño

10:30 - 10:50 The role of Landsat time-series in forest dynamics

research - Wanda Graf

10:50 - 11:10 Time Series of Normalized Difference Vegetation Index in

Costa Rica - A highly bioclimatic diverse landscapes -

Mauricio Vega

11:10 - 11:30 Radar remote sensing for forest parameter estimation -

Stefan Erasmi

11:30 - 11:50 Monitoring Land Cover Changes in Jambi Province,

Sumatra using Sentinel-1 and Google Earth Engine -

Kira Urban & Lutz Fehrmann

11:50 - 12:10 Exploring NDVI as a remote sensing tool for monitoring

tropical forest - Rebeca Campos Valverde & Frederick

Dadzie

12:10 - 13:30 Lunch break

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Program

SESSION 6 - Climate Change

Moderation/Minutes: Wanda Graf and Riccardo Testolin

Supervisor: Hugo Zerda

13:30 - 13:50 Biomass on a fragment of the Atlantic Forest at the state

of Espirito Santo, Brazil - José Imaña

13:50 - 14:10 Above ground biomass estimation related to field

measurement errors - Ramón Trucios

14:10 - 14:30 Climate Change adaptation of forest dependent poor

people: A case study comparing Nepal and Ghana -

Kumar Bahadur Darjee & George Ofori Ankomah

14:30 - 14:50 Species distribution models as a tool to explore potential

effects of climate change in montane forests -

Carlos Manchego

14:50 - 15:20 Coffee break

SESSION 7 – Case studies

Moderation/Minutes: Vianny Ahimbisibwe and Thakur Prasad Magrati

Supervisor: Cori Ham

15:20 - 15:40 Sustainable landscape in the forests of southern Chile -

Victor Sandoval & Luis Otero

15:40 - 16:00 Fire history in mexican conifers forest - Marco Gonzales

16:00 - 16:20 Spatial and temporal patterns of fires at the wildland-

rural-urban interface. Study case of Santiago del Estero, in

Argentina´s chaco dry forest region - Hugo Zerda

16:20 - 16:50 Coffee break

16:50 - 17:30 Group work sessions

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Program

Wednesday 16th November: ForestSAT

tba Departure to the congress venue

08:00 Registration

08:30 - 18:30 Participation at ForestSAT

18:30 - 20:00 Transfer back to the Hotel

20:00 Dinner

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Program

Thursday 17th November: Fieldtrip Day

Minutes: Jhenny Salgado and Kevin Jair Hernández Bado

Supervisor: Victor Sandoval

08:00 – 18:00 Field trip to Parque Nacional La Campana

18:30 Dinner

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Program

Friday 18th November: Workshop closing

Supervisor: Lutz Fehrmann

09:00 - 11:00 Presentation of Minutes during ForestSAT

11:00 -11:30 Coffee break

11:30 - 12:30 Evaluation plenary – without organizers; Introduction: Lutz Fehrmann

12:30 - 14:00 Lunch break

14:00 - 15:00 Workshop Wrap-up

15:00 - 15:30 Introduction of DAAD Office in Chile - Arpe Caspary

15:30 - 16:00 Workshop closing - Christoph Kleinn

16:00 - 18:30 Group work sessions

18:30 Dinner

Saturday 19th November: Departure Day

All Day Transfer of the participants to the airport in

Santiago de Chile and departure from the airport

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Accomodation and Workshop Venue

Crowne Plaza

Sc (Andina) Inc. Av. Libertador Bdo

O'Higgins 136, Santiago - 6513491, Chile

Phone: +56 (0) 2 26381042

Fax: +56 (0) 2 26330960

Workshop venue (Moneda 673)

The UACh office in Santiago is dedicated among other activities, to re-

present the university and authorities in different events, meetings and

ceremonies in Santiago. In addition, it represents Rectory, Faculties and

Institutes.

Through that, the presence of UACh is reinforced in the Metropolitan

region. Undergraduate and graduate careers are present as well; and

several academic and cultural events are managed in different fields for

the community.

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ForestSAT Venue

Universidad Mayor

- Campus Huechuraba -

Camino La Pirámide 5750,

Huechuraba , Santiago de Chile

http://www.umayor.cl/um/campus-

huechuraba

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Important contacts

Organizers:

Victor Sandoval: +56 63 2221224

Christoph Kleinn: +49 160 95167856

Lutz Fehrmann: +49 162 3691073

Kira Urban: +49 172 4629856

Emergency telephone number

Ambulance: 131

Hospital in Santiago de Chile: +56 2 2210 1111

Police: 133

Taxi in Santiago de Chile:

Airport transfer: +56 2 293 343 92

Emergency number of German Embassy (for Germans only):

Tuesday to Friday 9:00 - 12:00

Wednesday adt. 14:00 - 16:00

+56 (2) 2 463 2500

Emergency number of your embassy:

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