How to Respond to Forest Disturbances in Europe
4 April 2019 at 9:00 – 18:00, Hotel Grandium, Prague
Chair: Göran Persson, ThinkForest President
9:00 Welcome Göran Persson
9:10 Opening speeches
Miroslav Toman, Minister of Agriculture, Czech Republic
Jaroslav Regec, Secretary General, Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development, Slovak Republic & Forest Europe
Marc Palahí, Director, EFI
10:00 Climate Change and Global Environmental Challenges (presentation)
Stefan Rahmstorf, Professor, Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, Germany
10:20 Climate Change and Forest Disturbances in Europe (presentation)
Rupert Seidl, Professor, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Austria
10:40 Bark beetle outbreaks and responses: Presentation of a new EFI study (presentation)
Tomáš Hlásny, Professor, Czech University of Life Sciences
11:00 Coffee break
11:30 Panel Discussion: How to respond to forest disturbances?
Moderator: Fiona Harvey, Environment Correspondent, The Guardian
Panelists include:
Alex Held, Senior expert, European Forest Institute
Louise Eriksson, Researcher, Umeå University, Sweden
Reinhardt Neft, President of EUSTAFOR & CEO Bavarian State Forest
Tomáš Pařík, Director, Wood & Paper A.S., Czech Republic
12:50 Closing words for the morning session
Göran Persson
13:00 – 14:30 Lunch
Session “Managing and preventing disturbances: Past, present and future”
Chair: Marcus Lindner, Principal Scientist, EFI
14:30 Lessons learnt from managing recent forest disturbances
Introduction: Christoph Hartebrodt, Head of Department of Forest Economics and Management,
Forest Research Institute Baden-Württemberg, Germany
Big European storms: Amélie Castro, Regional Private Forest Center, Bordeaux, France (presentation)
Multiple risk occurrences in Ireland: Ciaran Nugent, Forest Service, Department of Agriculture, Food & the Marine, Ireland (presentation)
Ice storm in Slovenia: Damjan Oražem, Slovenia Forest Service, Slovenia (presentation)
Conclusions: Christoph Hartebrodt
15:10 Panel: How to move forward in coordinating European forest risks
Moderator: Christoph Hartebrodt
Kateryna Davydenko, Ukrainian Research Institute of Forestry & Forest Melioration
Barry Gardiner, Senior Researcher, EFI
Thomas Haussmann, Federal Ministry for Food and Agriculture, Germany
Ciaran Nugent, Forest Service, Department of Agriculture, Food & the Marine, Ireland
16:30 SURE-project video on forest disturbances
16:35 ‐ 18:00 Networking event with wine and snacks