Further news 2023 - 2014

Beginning in January Fernando Gordillo Vera was welcomed as a new research scientist in the working group Forest and Society.

Prof. Dr. Matthias Dieter, Director of the Thünen Institute of International Forestry and Forest Economics, has been appointed to the enlarged steering committee of the German Forestry Council as a representative of the German Association of Forest Research Organisations (DVFFA).

A recent analysis by Dr. Holger Weimar on wood energy consumption fills a significant gap in the German energy balances

The German Federal Office for Agriculture and Food (BLE) has approved a new research project with the title “Climate protection in small private forests – for owners and society (KKEG)”

A new project to analyse the influence of policy instruments on tropical forest landscapes and livelihoods

The Thünen Institute of International Forestry and Forest Economics was represented by Dr. Matthias Bösch at the Conference of the European Association of Environmental and Resource Economists (EAERE) in Helsinki.

Tania Gabriela Osejo Carillo has finalized her doctorate with a successful disputation at Göttingen University at April, 24th. In her thesis she analysed the costs and effectiveness of REDD policies at Bosawas Biosphere Reserve, Nicaragua. Her doctorate was result of a co-operation between ZEF…

Recently the Thünen Institute of International Forestry and Forest Economics has signed a cooperation agreement with the Faculty of Renewable Resources of the University for Development Studies in Tamale, Ghana. Both parties mutually agree to cooperate in the fields of “sustainable forest…

The field of activity Forests and society - Economic Evaluation was represented by Priska Weller at the International Choice Modelling Conference 2015.

During the Annual Conference of the Society for Tropical Ecology focusing on "Resilience of Tropical Ecosystems: Future challenges and opportunities”, Dr. Sven Günter from the Dept. “International Forestry” was elected to the scientific advisory board.