Summary

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• Summary
• whats next?

Arild Angelsen PEN workshop, Bogor, March 2009
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The workshop

• Writing? Too early to tell
• Data management
• Possibly the single most important task that ahs
  been under-estimated.
• Presentations
• See the advantages of a common approach
• A lot of exciting results
• Some unexpected results
• Forest dependence
• Safety nets?

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PEN data sets

• When will all submit data set and narrative?
• Around the table.
• Late submitters face a risk
• Cleaning
• Working with Ronnie
• Economic checking
• Develop some new routines
• Start analyzing, does it look plausible?
• Pricing, incl. fuelwood
• Overview of how done (should be in narratives)
• Methods for flagging
• Theoretical aspects (book chapter)

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data sets

• Gap filling
• Missing quarters
• Missing key fields (income)
• Leave most as is .
• More data needed, e.g.
• Classification of the study area (sub-areas)
• Classification based on market access
• Seasons
• Local vs. global gap filling
• More gap filling needed in individual data sets

5

• Ronnie (and Monica, Dani, Arild,) are your
  friends, but will NOT fix you
• Respond to emails and requests
• - Norms of reciprocity
• - Build your reputation

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Narratives

• 20 narratives received by Monica
• Only two are complete
• The other 18 require modifications from minor to
  major.
• The process of narrative checking
• first check for completeness
• then edit

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Methods book

• A great first output
• Earthscan
• Everyone should have an input
• co-author,
• contributing author/box-author
• Best/worst stories
• Note from Carsten
• what is your input?
• lead author contact
• First deadline 1. June
• and complete fieldwork survey .

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PEN Web

• Update partner page (small Web-page for each)
  (PEN Facebook)
• List of all publications internal and external

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Key publications

• High profile synthesis article (Nature, Science,
  PNAS)
• Special issue of journal (8-10 papers), e.g.
  World Development
• Methods book
• Regional synthesis
• Other journal articles
• CIFOR InfoBriefs and other publication series.
  Open for PENNERS

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PEN at other conferences

• World Forest congress, Buenos Aires, September
  2009
• IUFRO, Seoul, August 2010

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UK final conference

• Major event
• Not just PEN
• Possible format (Bonn 2003)
• One day high profile policy focussed meeting
• Research workshop
• Abstract/paper selection
• Late 2010/May 2011

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Some final words

• Stay in touch
• Respond
• Take initiatives regional/thematic work

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Some more final words

• The PEN history
• Good ideas get funded evolved as we went
  along
• The surveys that never ends
• The data management that never ends
• The data analysis and writing that never ends
• I would do it again, but only in the past
• The hard workers of PEN
• CIFOR
• Resource persons
• PEN partners
• Keep the excitement
• PEN will generate world-class studies on forest
  and poverty happiness climate