Call for Papers
Extended deadline for abstracts: August 15th, 2008
Provoking change: Strategies to promote forest users in the Amazon
Have you been working with some interesting and innovative teams that have been effective in achieving a better understanding of how to promote forest users in the Amazon to make more effective use of their natural resources? If so, we would like you to consider joining us (see organizing committee below) at a four day congress: Provoking change: Strategies to promote forest users in the Amazon, November 10-14, 2008 at the Centro Kolping, Santa Cruz de la Sierra in Bolivia.
Objective
The objective of the congress is to create a platform for dialogue between scientists, policy makers,
development agencies and representatives of civil society to promote critical thinking and learning
processes by confronting differences between experiences from the field and theory in order to make
contributions to a new operational framework.
This framework seeks to achieve rural development based on the appropriate use, management
and conservation of the Amazon forests.
Congress attendance
The congress will be attended by invited representatives and decision makers of governmental and non-governmental organizations dedicated to forest use and rural development in Latin-America and the Amazon region, smallholders' representative organizations, and members of the scientific community from different disciplines (agriculturalists, anthropologists, foresters, sociologists etc...). In addition, invitations to attend the congress will be issued based on accepted papers. Papers will be considered that arise from ongoing or published work and which address any of the following five general themes:
- Theories on rural development and the role of forests, innovation, adoption, adaptation, learning and change
- Models for development of the Amazon
- Coherency and compatibility of policies for rural development and forest conservation
- Practical case studies with lessons learned from efforts to promote forest users to make more effective use of their natural resources
- Critical analysis of tools, methods and approaches of forest based rural development
How to apply
Please send abstracts to Inka Montero at the Congress Coordination Office
(inka.Montero@waldbau.uni-freiburg.de)
by August 15, 2008. Submissions should include:
author(s)'s name(s), contact details and short biographical details (50-100 words);
key partners, and a brief abstract (up to 700 words).
Notification of papers selected will be made by the end of August 2008. Please indicate if funding is required. Within limits, there is the possibility partially to cover travel and accommodation costs of the presenter of the selected papers. The specific amount, however, will depend on the number and demand of presenters and confirmation of funding currently under negotiation.
Edited proceedings of all the papers presented at the congress will be produced. Full versions of selected papers (maximum 7000 words) should be submitted by the 30th of September 2008.
We intend to explore opportunities to publish some of the papers as a special issue of an international peer-reviewed journal.
For more detailed information about the partners, drivers and assumptions behind this congress, please visit the congress website: www.waldbau.uni-freiburg/forlive/05_Events/sc
We look forward to hearing from you!