International Forest Policy Excursion
Spain-France 2008
Version 2008-04-03
Peter Lohmander and Nils Fahlvik
General facts and intentions:
35 students and two professors from Sweden will follow the
excursion.
The course is given as part of the Forestry Programme in Sweden
.
The excursion is a
part of the course: SH0026 International Forest Policy.
Objectives:
After the course, the student should know these
things:
- Motives for forest policy.
- Swedish forest policy in
perspective.
- International policy frameworks, overview of selected
EU-policies.
- The historic and present use and importance of the forests in
the countries visited during the course.
- The human impact on the land use and forests.
We try, in the forestry excursions to different countries, to include excursion points like these:
- Visits to typical forests with field trips and focus
on country specific problems.
- Visits to forest industry mills such as saw
mills and pulp mills and discussions of the most important connections to
economic results, employment and other important conditions such as
environmental effects.
- Presentations and discussions of forest policy and
forestry laws such as forest acts at different levels.
- Discussions with
representatives from forestry and forest industry firms and politicians with
special focus on forest policy, labour policy and economics.
Practical forestry excursion principles:
We rent a good bus with driver. This way the complete group moves between different locations during the excursion. A good microphone and speaker system makes it possible to discuss during the bus trips.
We rent suitable rooms in less expensive hotels (or similar) and try to order most meals such as breakfasts, lunches and dinners in advance.
Plan of the course in
English:
http://www.slu.se/?id=371&Kurskod=SH0026&engelska=true&
Detailed course information in Swedish:
http://slunik.slu.se/student_index.cfm?id=3767
Schedule:
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Tuesday April 15, 2008 Travel Very important: Tickets, Passport, Money, Insurance. Come to the airport at least one hour before departure! Flight from Umea, Departure=0630, (SK0027) to Stockholm Arlanda Terminal 4, Arrival=0735. Flight from Stockholm Arlanda Terminal 5, Departure=0930, (SK1811) to Barcelona Terminal B, Arrival=1300. Bus transport to Valencia. (via Invoice) (Bus company = Transvia.http://www.transvia.es/ Phone number: +34961540251 email: transvia@transvia.es) We expect to reach Valencia 18:00.
Accomodation in Valencia: (via Invoice)
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Wednesday
April 16
9:30 Reception by the ETSIA Nemesio Fernández, Director of the ETSIA 10:00 Spanish Forest Policy Two more presentations of policy relevant forest
projects at UPV: 11:30 Mediterranean Forest Ecosystems
Restoration 13:00 Presentation of forest policy activities at
13:30 Lunch at UPV (Offered by UPV). 16:00 Visit (in Valencia) to
AIDIMA www.aidima.es, 18:30 Free time to visit Valencia city
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| Thursday April 17 8:00 Departure by bus from Valencia to Soneja (50 km – 1 hour) 9:00 Visit to the oak cork factory: Contact person: Adolfo Miravet 10:00 Debate to the factory owner and manager 11:00 Visit to the oak forest (Quercus suber) in Chovar 12:00 Debate with the forest owner 14:00 Lunch (Students pay individually) 15:30 Departure to Tortosa (170 km – 2 hours)
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| Friday April
18 09:00 Debate with the technical personnel of the Natural Parc of Els Ports http://mediambient.gencat.net/cat/el_medi/parcs_de_catalunya/ports/ (catalan language) Contact person: Josep Mª Forcadell (Boss and forester) with two technicians (one biologist and one forester) 10:00 Trekking in the Natural Parc (lunch in the forest) 15:30 Departure to Barcelona (180 km – 2 hours) 18:00 Arrival to Barcelona Accomodation in Barcelona: (via Invoice)
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Saturday April 19 Suggestion: Guided tour in Barcelona. |
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Sunday April 20 Suggestion: Visits to local attractions in Barcelona. |
| Monday April
21
09:00 Visit to “Forest professionals association of Catalonia”. Presentation and discussions. Perhaps some person from the private forest owners association will also be present. 10:30 Departure to Solsona. 13:00 Arrival at Hotel Solsona Centre. http://www.hotelsolsonacentre.com 13:30 Lunch (2 km from the hotel. We use the bus to get there. Lunch must be confirmed before April 16 to Can Mascaro. Tel: 973 48 15 15. (EURO 15 for “fantastic” lunch.) 14:30 Guided tour in the Technological Forest Center of
Catalonia. (Focus on forest policy relevant issues.) Contact person: Jose Antonio Bonet 16:00 Debate with forest policy area responsible Contact persons: Gloria Dominguez (Boss, forest policy) and Eduard Plana (Technician, Expert on forest fires), Sergio de Miguel (Expert on international forest cooperation) Dinner: A few minutes walk to a less formal but nice
dinner place with hamburgers etc. Accomodation in Solsona:
(via Invoice)
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| Tueday April
22 9:00 Departure to Llavorsi (120 km – 3 hours) 12:00 Reception at the Natural Parc of Alt Pirineu http://mediambient.gencat.net/eng/inici.jsp http://mediambient.gencat.net/cat/el_medi/parcs_de_catalunya/alt_pirineu/inici.jsp Contact person: Jordi Palau 13:00 Lunch 14:00 Excursion / trekking
guided by the forest technician of the park Marc
Garriga
Accomodation in Toulouse: (via Invoice) Formule 1 Hotel -
Ramonville There is a subway station 300 m from the hotel
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Wednesday April 23 08:00 Departure from Formule 1 Hotel – Ramonville
08:15 Arrival at INRA - Auzeville 10:00-10:30 Coffee Break – Presentation of posters on research on Forest ecology at INRA Toulouse 10:30-10:45 Biotechnical research
on spontaneous ash trees in the Pyrenees
mountains
– André GAVALAND – UMR DYNAFOR 11:45-12:30 Lunch at INRA Toulouse Restaurant 12:30-14:00 Travel in bus to “Le Fousseret” (Haute-Garonne) 14:00–15:00 First visit: Private Forest of
Briouant – Le Fousseret
15:30-16h30 Second visit: Communal forest of
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| Thursday April 24
08:00 Departure from
Formule 1 Hotel - Ramonville 10:00-1200 First visit: “Bois Ariégeois”
(sawmill and wooden frame manufacturer)
- Saint Paul-de-Jarrat (Ariège) - Mr Paul BARBE 1200-13:30 Lunch at Mac Donalds restaurant – Pamiers - (or other restaurant-???) 13:30-14:15 Travel to Mazères (Ariège) Accomodation in Barcelona: (via Invoice) Centric Point Barcelona Check in: Thursday April 24 Breakfast is included. |
| Friday April 25,
2008
Travel: Very important: Tickets, Passport, Money, Insurance. We all go together to the airport. It is to uncertain to travel with the bus in the morning
due http://www.barcelona-tourist-guide.com/en/airport/barcelona-airport-transport.html Flight from Barcelona Terminal B, Departure=1020, (JK0049) to Stockholm Arlanda Terminal 5, Arrival=1355. Flight from Stockholm Arlanda Terminal 4,
Departure=1455, (SK0034) to Umea, Arrival=1555.
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Addresses to organizers and contacts in Spain:
Coordinators of the
events at UPV in Valencia:
Prof. Dr. Eduardo Rojas Briales
Departamento de
Producción Vegetal
ETSIA-UPV
Campus de Vera s/n
E-46022
Valencia
Tel: (+34)963877000 (ext. 73332)
Fax: (+34)96387339
GSM:
(+34)639313006
e-mail: edrobr@prv.upv.es
Claudio Benavent
International Officer ETSMRE -
ETSIA
Universidad Politécnica de Valencia
Tel +34-96-3879132 or
+34-96-3879141
Fax +34-96-3877139 or +34-96-3877149
cbenavent@upvnet.upv.es
interagr@upvnet.upv.es
e-mail: reinagr@euita.upv.es
Coordinator of the events in Spain outside Valencia
Miguel Fabra Crespo
Senior Lecturer
in Forestry at Universidad Politécnica de Valencia,
ETSI Agronomos.
Escuela Técnica Superior de Ingenieros Agrónomos
Universidad Politecnica
de Valencia
Camino de Vera, s/n
46022 Valencia, Valencia, España
http://www.etsia.upv.es
http://www.upv.es/udcienciaforestal/Staff1.htm
http://www.upv.es/udcienciaforestal/destacados-EN2.html
Phone:
963877007 (Ext.:73335 )
Mobile phone: +34 606 80 1457
e-mail: mifabcre@prv.upv.es
Addresses to organizer and contact in France:
André
Gavaland
Directeur
adjoint
UMR 1201 DYNAFOR
BP 52627 - 31326 Castanet Tolosan Cedex
Tel :
+33 561285419
Cell : +33 686977314
Fax: +33 561285411
E-mail : andre.gavaland@toulouse.inra.fr
Addresses to the professors from SLU, Sweden, that follow
the excursion to Spain and France:
Peter Lohmander
Professor of forest management and
economic optimization, Dr.
Faculty ofForest Sciences
SLU
901 83
Umea
Sweden
Phone: +46-(0)90-786 83 80
Mobile Phone: +46-(0)70-692 52
10
e-mail: Peter@Lohmander.com
Home page: http://www.lohmander.com/
Nils Fahlvik
Assistant Professor, Dr.
Swedish
university of Agricultural Sciences
Southern Swedish Forest Research
Centre
Southern Swedish Forest Research Centre, SLU
P.O. Box 49
SE-230
53 Alnarp
Sweden
Phone office: +46 – (0)40 – 415 118
e-mail: nils.fahlvik@ess.slu.se
Home page:
http://anstallda.slu.se/person.cfm?200703101094115
Swedish coordinator of international excursions:
Erik Wilhelmsson
Director of Studies, Lecturer,
Dr.
Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences,
Faculty of Forest
Sciences,
Section of Planning and Efficiency
SE-901 83
Umea
Sweden
Phone: +46 - (0)90 – 786 83 40
Fax: +46 – (0)90
– 77 81 16
e-mail: erik.wilhelmsson@srh.slu.se
Home page: http://www.resgeom.slu.se/eng/personal/personsida.cfm?PersID=42
Invoice in connection to study tour by Swedish students
Any question should be sent to: Erik Wilhelmsson, erik.wilhelmsson@srh.slu.se
Phone +46 90 786 83 40
Fax +46 90 77 81 16
Mobile +46 70
285 03 05
http://www.resgeom.slu.se/eng/personal/personsida.cfm?PersID=42
Mixed
links:
UPV: http://www.upv.es/index-en.html
UPV General information with university pictures: http://www.upv.es/organizacion/conoce-upv/historia/index-en.html
General information about Valencia: http://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valencia
Map of Valencia: http://www.comunitatvalenciana.com/descargas/PlanoValencia2006.pdf
Web cams in Valencia and the neighbourhood: http://webcam.comunitatvalenciana.com/
Nature reserves in the region of Valencia:
http://www.comunitatvalenciana.com/natura/natura2.htm?nombrenatu=search...&prov=4&idtipo=1
Map of nature reserves: http://orto.cth.gva.es/website/parques/viewer.htm?ctema=web_parque_calderona&idioma=c
Biodiversity and sustainable tourism in Sierra Calderona:
http://www.sierracalderona.org/sitefiles/revista/RevistaSC.pdf
More information about Sierra Calderona:
http://www.sierracalderona.org/
WWF Across the water:
Across the Waters (ATW) Phase V will maintain a pan-Mediterranean scope, although the geographic frameworks of action will vary according to the different objectives and activities. Priority thematic areas include sustainable development of natural resources (Freshwater, Forest, Marine), regional policy processes and protected area management. These will be constantly linked with cross-cutting drivers such as climate change, environmental education, tourism or agriculture.
WWF Water infrastructure:
The main aim of this project is to assess and induce changes in Spanish water policy from dam and transfer construction towards Integrated River Basin Management (IRBM). Key elements of this IRBM are the adequate implementation of the Water Framework Directive and the conservation of wetlands and ecological processes.
Some possible excursion points found via Google are
these:
Mediterranean Cork Oak Forest Programme
http://www.panda.org/about_wwf/what_we_do/forests/publications/factsheets_/index.cfm?uNewsID=57400
http://assets.panda.org/downloads/factsheetcork.pdf
Cork oak contacts within WWF
WWF Mediterranean Programme Office Communications
Department
Chantal Menard
cmenard@wwfmedpo.org
Cork Oak Landscapes Programme Coordinator
Nora
Berrahmouni
nberrahmouni@wwfmedpo.org
Forest conservation in the Mediterranean
http://www.panda.org/about_wwf/where_we_work/europe/what_we_do/mediterranean/about/forests/index.cfm
Saving Mediterranean water sources
WWF contacts in Barcelona and Valencia:
BARCELONA
Información: Miguel Escribá
Tel. 618
134 238
E-mail: gbarcelonawwf@hotmail.com
VALENCIA
Información: Ignacio Serra.
Tel.: 666
662 269.
E-mail: wwfvalencia@eresmas.com
General information about Barcelona: http://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barcelona
Map of Barcelona: http://maps.google.es/maps?oi=eu_map&q=Barcelona&hl=sv
Virtual flight over Barcelona: http://www.bcn.es/volvirtual/en_bcn4d.html
General information about Catalonia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catalonia
Pine management in Catalonia:
http://www.medforex.net/research/projects/pinus.htm
Burnt forest areas and fire frequency in Catalonia:
http://dataservice.eea.europa.eu/atlas/viewdata/viewpub.asp?id=790
Beating forest fires in Catalonia:
http://emergency-directory.com/images/pdfs/fireandrescue/06-Q2/5.Wildfires.pdf
Forest fire management in Catalonia:
Natural disasters in Europe (including forest fires in Catalonia and much more):
http://reports.eea.europa.eu/environmental_issue_report_2004_35/en/accidents_032004.pdf
GIS in forestry in Catalonia: http://www.creaf.uab.es/MIRAMON/publicat/papers/lisboa98/SIBosc.htm
General information about Andorra: http://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andorra
Mountains and nature in Andorra: http://www.andorra.ad/ang/gaudeix_andorra/oci_esports/muntanya_natura.asp
Reseguide till Andorra: http://www.travelmarket.se/cfml/guide.cfm?COUNTRY_CODE=AD