Erkki Kivinen

Suoseuran 30-vuotisesta toiminnasta

Kivinen E. Suoseuran 30-vuotisesta toiminnasta.

English title: Finnish peatland society - Suoseura - 30 years

Tiivistelmä

The objects of Suoseura established on April 29, 1949, were general research of peatlands and peats and promoting their appropriate and economic utilization. The Society has at present about 600 members including experts in natural sciences, agriculture, forestry, representatives of peat industry, and peat experts in practice. The Society realizes its objects by arranging 6—8 meetings annually. At these meetings, the latest research results or improvements in peatland utilization are introduced. The lectures have most commonly discussed properties and classification of virgin peat and peatlands and their utilization in agriculture, horticulture, afforestation and peat industry. The most important lectures are published in the periodical of the Society, "Suo", which comes out in 4—6 numbers a year, in total about 100 pages. The lectures are usually published in Finnish with a summary in English. The Society also arranges annually excursions to objects of current interest in the home country and occasionally to neighbouring countries as well. Furthermore, members have lectured on their travel observations concerning peatlands of Europe, the United States and Canada and their utilization. The Finnish Peatland Society participates actively in the international cooperation in the field. It has established the IPS Finnish National Committee and its members attend actively international congresses and symposiums abroad and certainly in Finland. For facilitating international cooperation the Society published a Peat Land Terminology as early as in 1956. This publi-cation in German-Finnish-Swedish-English included about 250 peatland words. In 1972, the Society published a review of Finnish peatlands, "Finnish Peatlands and their Utilization"", 61 p. "

Vastaanotettu 31.10.2017 Julkaistu 1.1.1980

Katselukerrat 1186

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