Konferansen: "FOREST SECTOR MODELING - NEW APPROACHES AND FINDINGS FOR IMPROVED RESOURCE DECISIONS IN A GLOBALIZED WORLD"

The project seeks NFR for NOK 75000 as economic support for arranging an international conference devoted to explore methodological issues and research questions of high current interest at the national, regional and global scale. The contribution from N FR will be used for covering the travelling and accomodation costs of invited Keynote speakers and for cost regarding publishing scientific papers from the conference presentations. The following topics are covered by the conference: - Coupling or linkag e of partial equilibrium FSM with other models (energy, climate, land use and general equilibrium models) - Short-term vs. long-term modeling issues - Impacts of agent behaviour assumptions - Climate change mitigation - Impacts of and adaptation to climat e change - Bioenergy - International trade of wood fibre - Competition for wood fibre between traditional and new uses - Risk and uncertainty - Technological change - FSM in future foresight studies - New econometric results as important input in FSM