International Conference
Cultural Heritage and Sustainable Forest Management:
the role of traditional knowledge
Italian Academy of Forestry Science
Firenze
, Italy 8-11 June 2006
organized by
IUFRO Research Group of Forest and Woodland History (6.07.00)
IUFRO Task Force on Traditional Forest Knowledge
supporting organizations
USDA Forest Service – Research & Development
University of Florence - Department of Forestry and Environmental Science
Ministerial Conference on the Protection of Forest in Europe
Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Forestry Policies, Italy
Italian Academy of Forestry Science
Istituto Agronomico per l'Oltremare
Regione Toscana
collaborating scientific institutions
Council of Europe - European Landscape Convention
UNESCO - World Heritage Centre
United Nation Convention to Combat Desertification
United Nation Forum on Forest Secretariat
World Bank of Traditional Knowledge
European Society For Environmental History
FAO - Rome
Spannocchia Foundation - Siena
Italian National Council for Research - Institute for the Study of the
Mediterranean Societies
Working Group “History and Archaeology of Forest Landscape”
(Italian Society for Silviculture and Forest Ecology)
European Commission