Authors:
IPS
Keywords:
carbon, congress, horticulture, ireland, mires, peat, peatlands, uk
Documentfile:
pi2-2012webversion.pdf
Summary:
IPS Insights
Editorial: The International Peat Congress in Stockholm was a success! 3
From the President’s Desk: A new term – options and priorities 5
IPS Award of Excellence 2012 to Professor Piotr Ilnicki 22
About the Award of Excellence 23
The IPS becoming active in China 24
IPS Membership Application Form 47
New IPS members 59
In memoriam: Leo Schipper (1949-2012) 63
Like the IPS on Facebook 63
Congress, symposia and other events
This was the International Peat Congress 2012! 8
IPC 2012 – Themes and sessions – what was discussed
and what have we learnt from each other? 10
Feedback from the Congress – did you like it, too? 20
Notes from a German peatland symposium – GEOHannover 34
Report on the German seminar “Rewetting of raised bogs –
a model of success?” 36
Managing the Western Peatlands – Irish Peat Society
Annual Meeting, Study Tour and Seminar 40
IPS Annual Assembly 2013 at ISHS-IPS GroSci in Leiden 49
Technical Meeting on an Integrated Management Plan for
Peatland Management in Southeast Asia 50
International Symposium on Wild Fire and Carbon
Management in Peat-Forest in Indonesia 54
Peat and peatland events 64
From and for the industry
English Growing Media Task Force issues its final report 26
Inefficiency banished, peat plant increases capacity –
Peltracom case history 42
Status of Peatlands and Peat in Finland today – 70 Years of
Peatland Research at the Geological Survey of Finland 48
Research reports
Humic lakes of Wigry National Park (NE Poland) –
development and expectations for the future 31
Carbon Accumulation Shows the Interplay between the
Natural Succession of Mires and Climate Change 44
Steep Increase in Oil Palm Plantations on Peat in Southeast Asia 56
Book reviews
Soundly about peatland forestry, Peatland Ecology and
Forestry – a Sound Approach 60
The Encyclopedia of Agrophysics – some aspects of
peat and peatlands 61
A quick scan of peatlands in Central and Eastern Europe 62