Publications

The COST Action E19 on National Forest Programmes in a European Context assembled more than 70 researchers and civil servants from 20 European countries and the USA. Some meetings were also attended by scholars from Canada, China and Japan.
The participants aimed to provide policy makers in Europe with improved means for the formulation and implementation of National Forest Programmes (NFPs) for ensuring sustainable forest management. In order to accomplish this objective the work programme comprised the following tasks: to interpret the basic elements and institutional and procedural requirements of NFPs, to assess the effects of these elements and requirements on NFPs, to assess the supporting and impeding factors for the development of substantive NFPs, to evaluate the significance of NFPs in comparison to other policy means.

Abstracts of the International Conference “Bridging the Gap” on the policies, sciences and tools in implementing sustainable forest management, which took place in Alnarp, Sweden on 17-21 October 2005.

The results of the Action are presented according to the following sub themes, coming from 6 different working groups during the Action : institutional and legal aspects; external policies influencing parking and parking policies; public parking, both off- and on-street; private parking; park and ride; communication and acceptance.

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-proceedings of the COST Action 2102 International Workshop on Verbal and Nonverbal Communication Behaviours held in Vietri sul Mare, Italy, in March 2007.
The 26 revised full papers presented together with one introductory paper comprise carefully reviewed and selected participants’ contributions and invited lectures given at the workshop. The papers are organized in topical sections on verbal and nonverbal coding schema, emotional expressions, gestural expressions, analysis and algorithms for verbal and nonverbal speech, as well as machine multimodal interaction.

Proceedings of the Meeting “Improvements in the Understanding and Use of De-inking Technology”, which took place in Grenoble, France on 11-12 October 2006.