The IUFRO Conference “The social and ecological value added of small-scale forestry to the Bioeconomy” will take place on 6-9 October 2020. The event is jointly organised by IUFRO, Eurac Research and University of Padua and can be followed both online and in person in the city of Bolzano, Italy.

The conference focus on interpreting and promoting the impact of forest bioeconomy on the development of quality product markets and nature-based services and the concepts behind them: social innovation, product diversification, multifunctionality and the value added network of vertically and horizontally integrated economic stakeholders.

The event will include a conference entitled “Using Earth Observation data to compute Economic Accounts for Forestry: testing a small-scale forestry unit through remote sensing”, led by Dr. Elena Górriz (European Forest Institute). During the session, she will delve into the work developed within the framework of the H2020 MySustainableForest project in the development of Earth Observation data-based products for forestry accounting.

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