Discover the prospects of
knowledge management in forestry

Knowledge Management is of more and more importance in forestry. Beyond classical approaches of knowledge transfer, new ways of communication between scientists and practitioners are coming up. Community building, new technologies, web-based knowledge exchange, peer-to-peer communication, new ways of integrating experts into knowledge management and a new perception of the notion of "knowledge" and "expertise" are opening the evolving field of knowledge management in forestry.

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The international conference in Freiburg, Germany, (25 – 27 Oct. 2006) addresses these issues at the interdisciplinary level, bringing together experts in knowledge management not only in forestry. The conference offers new theoretical approaches and aims to transfer practical experiences from other disciplines of knowledge management to forestry. Within these discussions, also integrated aspects of knowledge management where technological solutions (e.g. web-based knowledge exchange) meet "communities of knowledge" will be addressed. The organisers of the event are the developers of the joint international information platform waldwissen.net and are part of an international network for knowledge transfer in the Alpine Space (KnowForAlp).