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    Social innovation encompasses new forms of interaction between environmental, economic, and social realms in order to solve shared problems and achieve common goals through strengthened collaboration and bottom-up initiatives. This approach has significant potential for rejuvenating rural Mediterranean areas, and can contribute to reverting abandonment, increasing competitiveness and securing jobs and services in remote rural areas.

    Mediterranean Forest Week: Social Innovation in Forests

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    2 April 2019, Lebanon. Forests are natural resources -- both public and private – which are host to a...

    Can social innovation make a difference to forest-dependent communities?

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    Attention to social innovation and its role in sustainable development have been rising. However, the knowledge of social innovation pertaining to rural...

    International Symposium on Landscape, Agriculture and Women

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    9-10 May 2019, Priorat, Spain The International Symposium on Landscape, Agriculture and Women aims to create links between...

    Pau Costa Foundation receives social innovation award

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    Pau Costa Foundation (PCF) has been recognised as a Social Innovator by Ashoka, the global organisation promoting social entrepreneurship, in 2018. This...

    COST Action Proposal Open Call

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    An open call for Cost Action proposal invites submissions that contribute to the scientific, technological, economic, cultural or societal knowledge advancement and development of...

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    Insights in Academia: Mapping the fragmentation of the international forest regime...

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    When I started studying forestry, there were several things I thought I'd never do. One of them was searching for books on...

    First National Report on the State of Forests and Forestry in...

    Can social innovation make a difference to forest-dependent communities?

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