{"id":612,"date":"2018-12-18T13:33:58","date_gmt":"2018-12-18T13:33:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/science.sjp.ac.lk\/forsoc\/?p=612"},"modified":"2019-08-18T13:36:54","modified_gmt":"2019-08-18T13:36:54","slug":"23rd-international-forestry-and-environment-symposium-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/science.sjp.ac.lk\/forsoc\/what-we-do\/23rd-international-forestry-and-environment-symposium-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"23rd International Forestry and Environment Symposium 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"justify\"><a href=\"https:\/\/science.sjp.ac.lk\/forsoc\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/24\/2019\/08\/23rd-International-Forestry-and-Environment-Symposium-2018-1-1024x475.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-613\" src=\"https:\/\/science.sjp.ac.lk\/forsoc\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/24\/2019\/08\/23rd-International-Forestry-and-Environment-Symposium-2018-1-1024x475.jpg\" alt=\"23rd-international-forestry-and-environment-symposium-2018-1-1024x475\" width=\"1024\" height=\"475\" srcset=\"https:\/\/science.sjp.ac.lk\/forsoc\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/24\/2019\/08\/23rd-International-Forestry-and-Environment-Symposium-2018-1-1024x475.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/science.sjp.ac.lk\/forsoc\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/24\/2019\/08\/23rd-International-Forestry-and-Environment-Symposium-2018-1-1024x475-300x139.jpg 300w, https:\/\/science.sjp.ac.lk\/forsoc\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/24\/2019\/08\/23rd-International-Forestry-and-Environment-Symposium-2018-1-1024x475-768x356.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><a href=\"http:\/\/fesympo.sjp.ac.lk\/\">International Forestry and Environment Symposium<\/a>\u00a0organised by the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/science.sjp.ac.lk\/fes\/\">Department of Forestry and Environmental Science<\/a>\u00a0of the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/science.sjp.ac.lk\/\">Faculty of Applied Sciences<\/a>\u00a0for the 23rd consecutive year was held from\u00a0<strong>23rd and 24th November 2018<\/strong>\u00a0at Citrus, Waskaduwa, Sri Lanka.\u00a0This is one of the premier events where researchers,\u00a0academia, professionals, policymakers and the industry meet to network, discuss and learn about the latest developments\u00a0in forestry and environment in the region. The theme of this year\u2019s symposium was<strong>\u201cTowards Sustainable and Greener Future\u201d.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">Symposium was graced by Prof. D. P. S. Chandrakumara; Acting Vice Chancellor of the University of Sri Jayewardenepura and the Dean of the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/fhss.sjp.ac.lk\/\">Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences<\/a>, Prof. Sudantha Liyanage, Dean of the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/science.sjp.ac.lk\/\">Faculty of Applied Sciences<\/a>,\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/science.sjp.ac.lk\/fes\/prof-upul-subasinghe\/\">Prof Upul Subasinghe<\/a>; Symposium Chair<\/strong>, Head of the Department of\u00a0Forestry and Environmental Science, Dr G G T Chandrathilake; Coordinator of the Symposium, Dr Varuni Jayasooriya; coordinator of the symposium, Dr Mary Boyse; Key Note Speaker,\u00a0Associate Professor of School of Science,\u00a0Edith Cowan University, Mr. Tom Jenkins;\u00a0Keynote Speaker, Head of Forest Research in Wales,\u00a0Forest Research Agency,\u00a0Environment Centre Wales,\u00a0United Kingdom, Western Australia and a large number of distinguished academic members and researchers representing various fields in forestry and environmental sciences.<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">Around 150 new key research findings under the themes of \u201cForest and Natural Resource Management,\u00a0Biodiversity and Ecological Health,\u00a0Climate Change and Disaster Management,\u00a0Sustainable Land Use and Urban Development,\u00a0Biomass and Sustainable Energy,\u00a0Waste Management and Pollution Control,\u00a0Wood Science, Wood and Non Wood Industry,\u00a0Environmental Economics in Resource Management,\u00a0Geology, Soil and Water Resource Management,\u00a0Environmental Engineering and Green Technology,\u00a0Corporate Responsibility and Sustainable Tourism\u201d were presented by the scholars, local and foreign participants including key government officials, academics, researchers and business leaders in Forestry and Environment Sectors.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sjp.ac.lk\/news\/23rd-international-forestry-environment-symposium-2018\/\">https:\/\/www.sjp.ac.lk\/news\/23rd-international-forestry-environment-symposium-2018\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>International Forestry and Environment Symposium\u00a0organised by the\u00a0Department of Forestry and Environmental Science\u00a0of the\u00a0Faculty of Applied Sciences\u00a0for the 23rd consecutive year was held from\u00a023rd and 24th November 2018\u00a0at Citrus, Waskaduwa, Sri Lanka.\u00a0This is one of&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":35,"featured_media":613,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_ti_tpc_template_sync":false,"_ti_tpc_template_id":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[7],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/science.sjp.ac.lk\/forsoc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/612"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/science.sjp.ac.lk\/forsoc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/science.sjp.ac.lk\/forsoc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/science.sjp.ac.lk\/forsoc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/35"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/science.sjp.ac.lk\/forsoc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=612"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/science.sjp.ac.lk\/forsoc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/612\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":614,"href":"https:\/\/science.sjp.ac.lk\/forsoc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/612\/revisions\/614"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/science.sjp.ac.lk\/forsoc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/613"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/science.sjp.ac.lk\/forsoc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/science.sjp.ac.lk\/forsoc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/science.sjp.ac.lk\/forsoc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}