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Padova (Italy) 18-20 April 2017PresentationIn recent years the number of actions and projects involving &#8220;ancient forests&#8221; or &#8220;ancient woodland&#8221; has greatly increased. (French National Forestry Office exceptional forests scheme, WWF program for ancient forests, International Day of Forests, etc.). In ecological, economic and social terms, these forest spaces play numerous, diverse roles.The definition of&#160; &#8220;ancient forests&#8221; varies not only from country to country but also according to disciplinary field. Working on &#8220;ancient forests&#8221; can involve separating &#8220;old-growth forests&#8221; from &#8220;ancient woodland&#8221;, forests that have disappeared and, in the case of&#160; &#8220;current forests&#8221;, those that are not actually very old! &#8220;Ancient woodland&#8221; or &#8220;old growth forests&#8221; are often considered as &#8220;current forests&#8221; of a certain age, but the appreciation of this antiquity depends on time based thresholds that in turn depend on, amongst other things, the sources available to help reconstruct their history.Even though the concept of &#8220;ancient forests&#8221; is evolving, the origins of a forest&#8217;s antiquity must be addressed. If forests have survived until now, a number of social and economic functions must justify their existence. Coupled with notions of natural refuges and forest biodiversity, these forests are also considered as living archives and witnesses of centuries gone by, as places where heritage and memories accumulate. Both private and publicly owned, these forests are at the crossroads of various, sometimes conflicting, points of view. Their management must not only respond to the great challenges of today&#8217;s world, (mitigating climate change, reducing the loss of biodiversity) but also involve efforts to revitalise local economies and improve the quality of life.Today, as in the past, they offer insights into the changing relationships between society and environment and for this reason are of particular scientific interest. Integrated inter/multidisciplinary approaches that bring together historical knowledge (economic and social uses of the forest) and naturalistic approaches (study of forest ecosystems) now offer a new means of tackling the question of &#8220;ancient forests&#8221;However while the various methods and tools implemented ensure a better understanding of past forest spaces, disciplinary and regional compartmentalisation limits a global, integrated approach. To be at the crossroads of human sciences and natural sciences is vital in order to understand the factors leading to the differentiation of historical wooded areas.The aim of this conference is to allow specialists and researchers from various cultures and different professional fields to meet and exchange views about the study of ancient forests. Foresters, planners, developers, ecologists, biologists, agriculturalists, geographers, historians, philosophers, ethnologists, cartographers, archaeologists, archaeobotanists, sociologists etc., from all backgrounds, are invited to join this debate about our&#160; various and varying concept of &#8220;ancient forests&#8221;.TopicsMaturity, heritage, age and antiquity: how can "ancient forests" be defined? How do we identify a forest as ancient?By its age, its functions or its biodiversity? Numerous projects currently underway in this field reveal a great diversity of points of view and the existence of various schools of thought.&#160; These perceptions are narrowly linked to disciplinary fields as well as to specific national environments. The various terms used to describe ancient forests do not all refer to the same concepts, or the same historical circumstances. Furthermore, these concepts were born from very specific contexts and are thus indications of the way we think about relationships between society and environment. The idea of this theme is to present different viewpoints in their cultural and disciplinary contexts and to initiate a collective critical reflection about this emerging study subject.How to tackle the subject of forest age in a global manner? What are the latest methodological and scientific developments?Only by using a range of different approaches is it possible to probe the historical depths of forest areas and to understand the uses that have shaped them.&#160; Looking into their history in a comprehensive manner requires a combination of approaches: historical, archaeological, ethnographical and paleoecological etc. Presentations of case studies will highlight a variety of opportunities for combined approaches and allow the added scientific value of such studies to be appreciated, with a view to gaining a better overall understanding of forests&#8217; history.&#8220; Ancient forests&#8221; yes but how to move forward?Given the overlapping challenges of environmental, economic and social issues, how can a better understanding of the history of forest areas contributes to improvements in their management? This last theme will focus on concrete examples of project management and exploitation of &#8220;ancient&#8221; forest areas, where historical knowledge has led to new solutions for their development and management. The intention is to reflect on the heuristic scope of a comprehensive approach to the history of the forests.Field tripA field trip will be organised in the Parco Regionale dei Colli Euganei, in collaboration with the park management team. It will be held in the areas studied by Sandrine Paradis-Grenouillet and Sylvain Burri as part of the Marie Curie THISTLE research project and the European FP7 MEMOLA Project. It will confront the concepts and teachings of the conference with the reality of a complex landscape shaped by centuries of ebb and flow and co-evolution between forest cover and agro-forestry-pastoral exploitation by mountain communities, the town of Padua and the Venetian Arsenal.&#160;Important informationAbstract and submission: Abstract for oral or poster communication should be submittedbefore the 20 December 2016at meeting.ancientforests@gmail.com The text of the abstract must be under 2500 characters. The authors will be informed by email before 15 january 2017 if their submission has been accepted by the scientic committeeOrganizing CommiteeChantal ASPE &#8211; Senior Lecturer (environmental sociology), LPED UMR 151 IRD, University of Aix-Marseille (France)Sylvain BURRI &#8211; Research officer CNRS (history and archaeology), LA3M, UMR 7298 &#8211; University of Aix-Marseille (France)Sandrine PARADIS-GRENOUILLET &#8211; Postdoctoral researcher Marie-Curie (historical geography and archaeobotany) - Dipartimento dei beni culturali, archeologia, storia dell'arte, del cinema e della musica. University of Padova (Italie)Romain ROUAUD &#8211; Postdoctoral researcher (geography), GEOLAB, UMR 6042 CNRS, University of Limoges (France)Scientific committeePaul Arnould &#8211; Professor (geography), EVS, UMR 5600 CNRS, University of Lyon (France)J&#233;r&#244;me Buridant &#8211; Lecturer (geography), Edysan, University of Picardie (France)Gian Pietro Brogiolo &#8211; Professor (archaeology), Dipartimento dei beni culturali, archeologia, storia dell'arte, del cinema e della musica. University of Padova (Italy)Alexandra Chavarria -Professoressa (archaeology), Dipartimento dei beni culturali, archeologia, storia dell'arte, del cinema e della musica. University of Padova (Italy)Alan Crivellaro - Assistant professor (wood technology), Tesaf, University of Padoue (Italy)Jean-Luc Dupouey -&#160; Research director (forest ecology), EEF, UMR INRA - UL 1137, University of Lorrain (France)Fr&#233;d&#233;ric Guibal &#8211; Research officer (palaeoecology), IMBE, UMR 7263 CNRS, University of Aix-Marseille (France)Thierry Kervyn &#8211; Scientific attached (forest ecology and forest management), Service Public de Wallonie, D&#233;partement d'&#233;tude du milieu naturel et agricole (Belgium)Keith Kirby - Visiting Researcher (forest ecology), Department of Plant Sciences. University of Oxford (United Kingdon)Emanuele Lingua &#8211; Assistant professor (forest ecology), Tesaf, University of Padoue (Italy)Diego Moreno &#8211; Professor (geography), Dipartimento di Antichit&#224;, Filosofia e Storia (DAFIST), &#160;Laboratorio di Archeologia e storia ambientale; University of Genova (Italy)Nicoletta Martinelli &#8211; Doctor of Philisophy (dendrochronology), &#160;Laboratorio Dendrodata, Verona. (Italy)Oliver Nelle &#8211; Lecturer (archaeobotany),&#160; Dendrochronologisches Labor, Landesamtf&#252;r Denkmalpflege, University of Stuttgart (Germany)Cristiano Nicosia &#8211; Researcher (geoarchaeology) CreA-Patrimoine, University of Bruxelles (Belgium)Xavier Rochel - Lecturer (geography) Loterr , University of Lorraine (France)Padova (Italy) 18-20 April 2017Pr&#233;sentationDepuis une quinzaine d&#8217;ann&#233;es les actions et projets en faveur des &#171; for&#234;ts anciennes &#187; se multiplient (label for&#234;ts d'exceptions de l'ONF, programme for&#234;ts anciennes du WWF, journ&#233;e internationale de la for&#234;t, etc.). Ces espaces forestiers sont concern&#233;s par des usages multiples, &#224; la crois&#233;e des enjeux &#233;cologiques, &#233;conomiques et soci&#233;taux.Les d&#233;finitions des &#171; for&#234;ts anciennes &#187; varient en fonction des pays, mais aussi des champs disciplinaires par lesquels elles sont abord&#233;es. Travailler sur les &#171; for&#234;ts anciennes &#187; am&#232;ne &#224; &#233;carter les &#171; anciennes for&#234;ts &#187; les for&#234;ts qui aujourd&#8217;hui ont disparu, et parmi les &#171; for&#234;ts actuelles &#187; celles qui n&#8217;auraient pas d&#8217;anciennet&#233;. Les &#171; for&#234;ts anciennes &#187;, sont donc des &#171; for&#234;ts actuelles&#187; pourvues d&#8217;une certaine anciennet&#233;, mais l&#8217;appr&#233;ciation de cette anciennet&#233; est tributaire de seuils temporels qui d&#233;pendent, entre autres, des sources &#224; disposition pour reconstruire ce pass&#233;.M&#234;me si la notion de &#171; for&#234;ts anciennes &#187; &#233;volue dans son acception, il s&#8217;agit d&#8217;aborder l&#8217;origine de cette anciennet&#233;. Si des for&#234;ts se sont maintenues jusqu&#8217;&#224; aujourd&#8217;hui, c&#8217;est qu&#8217;un certain nombre de fonctions sociales et &#233;conomiques, justifient leur existence. Associ&#233;es &#224; l&#8217;id&#233;e de refuges pour la nature, de biodiversit&#233; foresti&#232;re, ces for&#234;ts sont aussi consid&#233;r&#233;es comme des archives et t&#233;moins des si&#232;cles pass&#233;s, comme des accumulateurs de patrimoine et de m&#233;moire. Tant&#244;t biens priv&#233;s et tant&#244;t biens communs, ces for&#234;ts sont &#224; la crois&#233;e d&#8217;enjeux vari&#233;s, parfois contradictoires. Leur gestion doit r&#233;pondre tout aussi bien aux grands d&#233;fis mondiaux (att&#233;nuation du r&#233;chauffement climatique, r&#233;duire l&#8217;&#233;rosion de la biodiversit&#233;) qu&#8217;aux tentatives de relocalisation de l&#8217;&#233;conomie et d&#8217;am&#233;lioration du cadre de vie. D&#8217;hier &#224; aujourd&#8217;hui, elles sont une fen&#234;tre ouverte sur l&#8217;&#233;volution des rapports soci&#233;t&#233;/environnement, et m&#233;ritent de fait un int&#233;r&#234;t scientifique particulier.Les approches int&#233;gr&#233;es, inter/multidisciplinaires, r&#233;unissant connaissances historiques (fonction sociale et &#233;conomique de la for&#234;t) et approches naturalistes (&#233;tude des &#233;cosyst&#232;mes forestiers) ouvrent aujourd&#8217;hui une nouvelle mani&#232;re d&#8217;aborder la question des &#171; for&#234;ts anciennes &#187;. Si la diversit&#233; des approches et des outils mis en &#339;uvre sont garants d'une meilleure compr&#233;hension du pass&#233; des espaces forestiers, le cloisonnement encore trop disciplinaire et r&#233;gional limite l'approche globale et int&#233;gr&#233;e. Se positionner au carrefour des sciences humaines et des sciences naturelles est indispensable pour comprendre les facteurs engendrant la diff&#233;renciation des espaces bois&#233;s historiques.L'objectif de ce colloque est de faire se rencontrer et &#233;changer des sp&#233;cialistes et chercheurs, de disciplines, de cultures et horizons professionnels diff&#233;rents, sur l&#8217;&#233;tude des for&#234;ts anciennes. Forestiers, am&#233;nageurs, &#233;cologues, biologistes, agronomes, g&#233;ographes, historiens, philosophes, ethnologues, cartographes, arch&#233;ologues, arch&#233;obotanistes, sociologues&#8230;, de tous horizons sont invit&#233;s &#224; mettre en d&#233;bat la notion et l&#8217;id&#233;e de &#171; for&#234;ts anciennes &#187;.Th&#232;mesEntre maturit&#233;, patrimonialit&#233; et anciennet&#233;, quelles d&#233;finitions des&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; &#171; for&#234;ts anciennes &#187; ?Comment qualifie-t-on une for&#234;t comme ancienne ? Par son anciennet&#233;, sa maturit&#233;, ses usages, sa biodiversit&#233; ? Les nombreux travaux engag&#233;s aujourd'hui sur le sujet sont r&#233;v&#233;lateur de la diversit&#233; des points de vue et de l&#8217;existence d&#8217;&#233;coles disciplinaires. Ces acceptions sont &#233;troitement li&#233;es aux champs disciplinaires ainsi qu&#8217;&#224; des contextes nationaux sp&#233;cifiques. Les termes &#171; ancients woodlands &#187;, &#171; for&#234;ts anciennes&#187;, &#171; foreste vetuste &#187;, ne recouvrent pas tout &#224; fait les m&#234;mes objets, ni les m&#234;mes r&#233;alit&#233;s historiques. Par ailleurs, il s&#8217;agit de concepts n&#233;s dans des contextes bien sp&#233;cifiques et sont de ce fait les marqueurs d&#8217;une fa&#231;on de penser les relations soci&#233;t&#233;/environnement. Ce th&#232;me a pour objectif de pr&#233;senter les diff&#233;rents regards dans leurs contextes culturels et disciplinaires, pour ouvrir sur une r&#233;flexion de cet objet d'&#233;tude.Comment aborder de mani&#232;re globale l&#8217;anciennet&#233; des for&#234;ts ? Quelles nouveaut&#233;s m&#233;thodologiques et scientifiques ?C&#8217;est au travers d&#8217;une diversit&#233; d&#8217;approches qu&#8217;il est possible de sonder la profondeur historique des espaces forestiers ainsi que d&#8217;appr&#233;hender les usages qui les ont fa&#231;onn&#233;s. S&#8217;int&#233;resser &#224; leur histoire de fa&#231;on globale, n&#233;cessite de combiner des approches historiques, arch&#233;ologiques, ethnographiques, pal&#233;o&#233;cologiques&#8230; La pr&#233;sentation de cas d'&#233;tudes permettra &#224; la fois de mettre en &#233;vidence la diversit&#233; des possibilit&#233;s d&#8217;approches crois&#233;es et d&#8217;appr&#233;cier leur plus-value scientifique dans la perspective d&#8217;une compr&#233;hension globale de l&#8217;histoire des for&#234;ts.Des &#171; for&#234;ts anciennes &#187; oui mais pourquoi faire ?A la crois&#233;e d&#8217;enjeux d&#8217;ordres &#233;cologiques, &#233;conomiques et sociaux, en quoi une meilleure connaissance du pass&#233; de ces espaces peut-elle contribuer &#224; am&#233;liorer les termes de leur gestion ? Ce dernier th&#232;me portera sur des projets concrets de gestion et de valorisation d'espaces forestiers &#171; anciens &#187; pour lesquelles les connaissances historiques ont permis de tracer des voies nouvelles d&#8217;am&#233;nagement et de gestion. Il s&#8217;agit de r&#233;fl&#233;chir &#224; la port&#233;e heuristique d&#8217;une approche globale de l&#8217;histoire des for&#234;ts.Sortie de terrainUne sortie de terrain sera organis&#233;e dans le Parc Regional des Colli Euganei en collaboration avec les gestionnaires du Parc. Elle aura lieu dans les zones &#233;tudi&#233;es par Sandrine Paradis-Grenouillet et Sylvain Burri dans le cadre du projet de recherche Marie Curie THISTLE et du Projet Europ&#233;en FP7 MEMOLA. Il s&#8217;agira de confronter les concepts et les enseignements du colloque &#224; la r&#233;alit&#233; d&#8217;un terrain complexe fa&#231;onn&#233; par des si&#232;cles de flux et de reflux et de co-&#233;volution entre couvert forestier et exploitation agro-sylvo-pastorale par les communaut&#233;s du massif, la ville de Padoue et l&#8217;Arsenal de Venise.Information&#160;ImportanteLes r&#233;sum&#233;s des propositions de poster ou de pr&#233;sentation orale doivent &#234;tre soumis&#160;avant le 20 d&#233;cembre 2016&#224; l'adresse meeting.ancientforests@gmail.com Le texte de propositions ne doivent pas d&#233;passer kes 2500 signes. Les auteurs seront inform&#233;s de la d&#233;cision du comit&#233; scientifique avant le 15 janvier 2017.Comit&#233; d'organisationChantal ASPE &#8211; Senior Lecturer (environmental sociology), LPED UMR 151 IRD, University of Aix-Marseille (France)Sylvain BURRI &#8211; Research officer CNRS (history and archaeology), LA3M, UMR 7298 &#8211; University of Aix-Marseille (France)Sandrine PARADIS-GRENOUILLET &#8211; Postdoctoral researcher Marie-Curie (historical geography and archaeobotany) - Dipartimento dei beni culturali, archeologia, storia dell'arte, del cinema e della musica. University of Padova (Italie)Romain ROUAUD &#8211; Postdoctoral researcher (geography), GEOLAB, UMR 6042 CNRS, University of Limoges (France)Comit&#233; scientifiquePaul Arnould &#8211; Professor (geography), EVS, UMR 5600 CNRS, University of Lyon (France)J&#233;r&#244;me Buridant &#8211; Lecturer (geography), Edysan, University of Picardie (France)Gian Pietro Brogiolo &#8211; Professor (archaeology), Dipartimento dei beni culturali, archeologia, storia dell'arte, del cinema e della musica. University of Padova (Italy)Alexandra Chavarria -Professoressa (archaeology), Dipartimento dei beni culturali, archeologia, storia dell'arte, del cinema e della musica. University of Padova (Italy)Alan Crivellaro - Assistant professor (wood technology), Tesaf, University of Padoue (Italy)Jean-Luc Dupouey -&#160; Research director (forest ecology), EEF, UMR INRA - UL 1137, University of Lorrain (France)Fr&#233;d&#233;ric Guibal &#8211; Research officer (palaeoecology), IMBE, UMR 7263 CNRS, University of Aix-Marseille (France)Thierry Kervyn &#8211; Scientific attached (forest ecology and forest management), Service Public de Wallonie, D&#233;partement d'&#233;tude du milieu naturel et agricole (Belgium)Keith Kirby - Visiting Researcher (forest ecology), Department of Plant Sciences. University of Oxford (United Kingdon)Emanuele Lingua &#8211; Assistant professor (forest ecology), Tesaf, University of Padoue (Italy)Diego Moreno &#8211; Professor (geography), Dipartimento di Antichit&#224;, Filosofia e Storia (DAFIST), &#160;Laboratorio di Archeologia e storia ambientale; University of Genova (Italy)Nicoletta Martinelli &#8211; Doctor of Philisophy (dendrochronology), &#160;Laboratorio Dendrodata, Verona. (Italy)Oliver Nelle &#8211; Lecturer (archaeobotany),&#160; Dendrochronologisches Labor, Landesamtf&#252;r Denkmalpflege, University of Stuttgart (Germany)Cristiano Nicosia &#8211; Researcher (geoarchaeology) CreA-Patrimoine, University of Bruxelles (Belgium)Xavier Rochel - Lecturer (geography) Loterr , University of Lorraine (France)Padova (Italy) 18-20 April 2017PresentazioneDa quindici anni a questa parte, le azioni e i progetti realizzati in favore delle "foreste antiche" si sono moltiplicati: il riconoscimento da parte dell&#8217;ONF (Ufficio nazionale delle foreste) di foreste &#8220;d&#8217;eccezione&#8221;, il progetto &#8220;Foreste antiche&#8221; del WWF, la Giornata Internazionale delle Foreste, etc. Di fronte alle problematiche ecologiche, economiche e sociali del momento, le funzionalit&#224; di tali zone forestali sono numerose.Le definizioni stesse di "foreste antiche" sono diverse tra loro e variano a seconda dei paesi, ma anche delle discipline che le studiano. Parlare di "foreste antiche" ci porta ad escludere il concetto di "antiche foreste" &#8211; le foreste che oggi non esistono pi&#249; &#8211; e le "foreste attuali" &#8211; le foreste che non avrebbero anzianit&#224;. Le "foreste antiche" sono dunque "foreste attuali", ma provviste di una certa anzianit&#224; la cui stima &#232; determinata dasoglie temporali che dipendono, tra le altre cose, dalle fonti a disposizione per ricostruire tale passato.Nonostante l&#8217;evoluzione della nozione di "foreste antiche", bisogna affrontare la questione dell&#8217;origine di tale anzianit&#224;. Se certe foreste si sono mantenute fino ad oggi, &#232; perch&#233; un certo numero di funzioni sociali ed economiche ne hanno giustificato l&#8217;esistenza. Bisogna quindi tracciarne la profondit&#224; storica. Infatti, in pi&#249; dell&#8217;idea di "rifugi per la natura" (biodiversit&#224; forestale), tali foreste sono considerate archivi e testimoni dei secoli passati, raccoglitori di patrimonio e memoria.Bene privato e bene comune al tempo stesso, queste foreste sono il punto di incontro (scontro) di diverse problematiche, a volte contraddittorie. La loro gestione deve poter rispondere alle grandi sfide mondiali (contribuire all&#8217;attenuazione del riscaldamento climatico, ridurre il degrado della biodiversit&#224;) quanto ai bisogni di rilocalizzazione dell&#8217;economia e del miglioramento del quadro di vita (transizione energetica, maggiore produzione di legno, questioni paesaggistiche, conflitti d&#8217;interessi).Tanto nel passato che nel presente, tali foreste sono una finestra aperta sull&#8217;evoluzione dei rapporti societ&#224;/ambiente e meritano, di fatto, un interesse scientifico particolare. Gli approcci integrati, inter-multidisciplinari, raggruppanti conoscenze storiche (funzione sociale ed economica della foresta) e gli approcci naturalisti (studio degli ecosistemi forestali) aprono oggi ad una nuova maniera di affrontare la questione delle "foreste antiche".Se tale diversit&#224; di approcci e di strumenti adottata al momento attuale &#232; garante di una migliore comprensione degli spazi forestali, la separazione ancora troppo disciplinare e regionale limita l&#8217;approccio globale ed integrato. Posizionarsi al crocevia delle scienze umane e delle scienze naturali &#232; indispensabile per comprendere i fattori determinanti la differenziazione delle specie boscose storiche.Il presente convegno intende favorire l&#8217;incontro e lo scambio tra specialisti e ricercatori, tra discipline, culture ed orizzonti professionali diversi sullo studio delle foreste antiche. Esperti di tutte le discipline, in foreste, ecologia, biologia, agronomia, geografia, storia, etnologia, cartografia, archeologia, paleoetnobotanica, sociologia, etc, potranno discutere della nozione complessa di "foreste antiche".TemiMaturit&#224;, patrimonialit&#224; ed anzianit&#224;: quale definizione dare a &#8220;foreste antiche&#8221;?Sulla base di che cosa una foresta viene definita antica? Sulla sua anzianit&#224;, i suoi usi, la sua biodiversit&#224;? I numerosi studi oggi intrapresi rivelano la molteplicit&#224; dei punti di vista e dell&#8217;esistenza di pi&#249; scuole di pensiero. Le numerose accezioni sono strettamente legate sia agli ambiti disciplinari sia a contesti nazionali specifici. I termini &#8220;ancient woodland&#8221;, &#8220;for&#234;ts anciennes&#8221;, &#8220;foreste vetuste&#8221;, non definiscono affatto gli stessi oggetti, n&#233; le stesse realt&#224; storiche. L&#8217;obiettivo &#232; presentare le diverse opinioni esistenti nei loro contesti culturali e disciplinari per aprire ad una riflessione critica su questo emergente oggetto di studio.Come affrontare il discorso dell&#8217;anzianit&#224; delle foreste in un&#8217;ottica globale? Quali sono le novit&#224; metodologiche e scientifiche?Soltanto l&#8217;impiego di molteplici diversi approcci e punti di vista permette tanto di indagare la profondit&#224; storica degli spazi forestali quanto di cogliere quegli usi che li hanno modellati. Interessarsi alla loro storia in maniera globale richiede la combinazione di molteplici approcci (storico, archeologico, etnografico, paleoecologico&#8230;). La presentazione dei vari casi di studio permetter&#224; di recensire e condividere le diverse opinioni a confronto, nell&#8217;ottica di una comprensione globale della storia delle foreste.&#8220;For&#234;tsanciennes&#8221;, &#8220;ancientwoodland&#8221;, &#8220;foreste antiche&#8221; &#8230; d&#8217;accordo, ma a cosa servono?Di fronte alle sfide ecologiche, economiche e sociali del momento, una migliore conoscenza del passato di tali spazi pu&#242; contribuire a migliorare una loro gestione multifunzionale? Questo ultimo aspetto punterebbe a delineare dei progetti concreti di gestione e di valorizzazione degli spazi forestali &#8220;antichi&#8221;, la cui conoscenza storica ha permesso di tracciare nuove vie di sviluppo e di gestione. L&#8217;obiettivo &#232; definire la portata euristica di un approccio globale alla storia delle foreste.Uscita sul terrenoSi prevede un&#8217;uscita sul terreno al Parco Regionale dei Colli Euganei in collaborazione con i responsabili del Parco. L&#8217;uscita si svolger&#224; nelle zone boschive che sono oggetto degli studi di SandrineParadis-Grenouillet (progetto di ricerca Marie Curie THISTLE) e Sylvain Burri (progetto europeo FP7 MEMOLA). L&#8217;obiettivo &#232; confrontare i concetti e i risultati del convegno con la realt&#224; di un territorio complesso modellato da secoli di flussi e riflussi e di coevoluzione tra copertura forestale e sfruttamento agro-silvo-pastorale delle comunit&#224; locali, della citt&#224; di Padova e dell&#8217;Arsenale di Venezia.Important informationAbstract and submission: Abstract for oral or poster communication should be submittedbefore the 20 December 2016at meeting.ancientforests@gmail.com The text of the abstract must be under 2500 characters. The authors will be informed by email before&#160;15 january 2017&#160;if their submission has been accepted by the scientic committeeComitato organizzativo&#160;Chantal ASPE &#8211; Senior Lecturer (environmental sociology), LPED UMR 151 IRD, University of Aix-Marseille (France)Sylvain BURRI &#8211; Research officer CNRS (history and archaeology), LA3M, UMR 7298 &#8211; University of Aix-Marseille (France)Sandrine PARADIS-GRENOUILLET &#8211; Postdoctoral researcher Marie-Curie (historical geography and archaeobotany) - Dipartimento dei beni culturali, archeologia, storia dell'arte, del cinema e della musica. University of Padova (Italie)Romain ROUAUD &#8211; Postdoctoral researcher (geography), GEOLAB, UMR 6042 CNRS, University of Limoges (France)Comitato scientificoPaul Arnould &#8211; Professor (geography), EVS, UMR 5600 CNRS, University of Lyon (France)J&#233;r&#244;me Buridant &#8211; Lecturer (geography), Edysan, University of Picardie (France)Gian Pietro Brogiolo &#8211; Professor (archaeology), Dipartimento dei beni culturali, archeologia, storia dell'arte, del cinema e della musica. University of Padova (Italy)Alexandra Chavarria -Professoressa (archaeology), Dipartimento dei beni culturali, archeologia, storia dell'arte, del cinema e della musica. University of Padova (Italy)Alan Crivellaro - Assistant professor (wood technology), Tesaf, University of Padoue (Italy)Jean-Luc Dupouey -&#160; Research director (forest ecology), EEF, UMR INRA - UL 1137, University of Lorrain (France)Fr&#233;d&#233;ric Guibal &#8211; Research officer (palaeoecology), IMBE, UMR 7263 CNRS, University of Aix-Marseille (France)Thierry Kervyn &#8211; Scientific attached (forest ecology and forest management), Service Public de Wallonie, D&#233;partement d'&#233;tude du milieu naturel et agricole (Belgium)Keith Kirby - Visiting Researcher (forest ecology), Department of Plant Sciences. University of Oxford (United Kingdon)Emanuele Lingua &#8211; Assistant professor (forest ecology), Tesaf, University of Padoue (Italy)Diego Moreno &#8211; Professor (geography), Dipartimento di Antichit&#224;, Filosofia e Storia (DAFIST), &#160;Laboratorio di Archeologia e storia ambientale; University of Genova (Italy)Nicoletta Martinelli &#8211; Doctor of Philisophy (dendrochronology), &#160;Laboratorio Dendrodata, Verona. (Italy)Oliver Nelle &#8211; Lecturer (archaeobotany),&#160; Dendrochronologisches Labor, Landesamtf&#252;r Denkmalpflege, University of Stuttgart (Germany)Cristiano Nicosia &#8211; Researcher (geoarchaeology) CreA-Patrimoine, University of Bruxelles (Belgium)Xavier Rochel - Lecturer (geography) Loterr , University of Lorraine (France)