IUFRO International and Multi-disciplinary Scientific Conference "Forest-related policy and governance: analyses in the environmental social sciences"

PREFACE

On behalf of the Organizing Committee, Bogor Agricultural University, Indonesia and Georg-August University of Goettingen, Germany, as well as on behalf of conference co-hosts the Research Development and Innovation Agency, the Ministry of Environment and Forestry of the Republic of Indonesia, and the Indonesian Forestry Scholars Association (PERSAKI), it is a great pleasure for us to organize the IUFRO International and Multi-disciplinary Scientific Conference. Forest-related policy and governance: Analyses in the environmental social sciences which was held in Bogor, 4 - 7 of October 2016.

This conference seeks to accommodate theoretical, methodological, and empirical contributions from around the globe through topical sessions. In addition, this conference aims to provide a platform for exchanging science-based contributions at the nexus of forest and environment policy and sustainable management practices. To do this, we have organized plenary and technical parallel sessions, focused on trans-disciplinary questions at the science-policy interface, and we have included contributions from multiple disciplines on forest and other environmental issues as well.

This volume of proceedings from the conference provides an opportunity for readers to engage with a selection of refereed papers that were presented during the IUFRO International and Multi-disciplinary Scientific Conference. The papers published here were picked up on the forestrelated policy analyses, as well as the advances in wider forest-related governance studies from political science, sociology, anthropology, human geography, regional development, economics, psychology, environment, forest history, legal studies, livelihood and tenure analyses. The papers selected depended on the quality and the relevancy to the aim of conference and in the interest of participants in general.

It is gratifying to note that this conference is attended by 200 participants from five continents and 28 countries, and almost 400 extended participants of special sessions in the second day of conference. Through this conference we can, and must, pursue green development as a multidimensional concept, encompassing the economic, social, institutional, and physical elements of development, in a wider sense of a sustainable paradigm. This conference represents a step toward the necessary adjustments for strengthening cooperation and effective collaboration among forestry and environmental scientists worldwide.

Finally on behalf of the organizing committee of the IUFRO International and Multi-disciplinary Scientific Conference, I would like to thank all the presenters and participants for their unduly support. This is something that we will strive to do again in the conferences that will follow next.

Chairman,

Dr. Dodik Ridho Nurrochmat