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A timber truck fully loaded with logs drives over a very simple wooden bridge in a forest.
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A timber truck fully loaded with logs drives over a very simple wooden bridge in a forest.
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WF Forestry

Further news 2023 - 2014

Franziska Schier successfully defended her doctoral thesis on the 1 of March 2022.

 portrait of Franziska Schier wearing a doctor's hat.

On 31.01.2022, the final event of the project „Fuelwood in private households“ took place as a web conference.

Excerpt of the presentation "Importance of the use of wood".

Waste reduction, recycling and increased material efficiency are key objectives in complex industrial ecology. The wood processing industry also aims at a more intensive resource recovery and usable residual volumes.

Plant with sawdust

Funding instruments for nature protection measures are often not adopted by private forest owners. But participation of forest owners is indispensable for reaching the policy goals which are pursued with these instruments.

Collage with banknotes and forest in background.

In early January, Dr. Paola Pozo and Mr. Fernando Gordillo were welcomed as members of the MoBi II project. The project MoBi II, Development of a Systematic Monitoring of the Bioeconomy – Consolidation Phase, further develops the concept for the monitoring of the bioeconomy developed at the Thünen…

Portrait of Paola Pozo Inofuentes and Fernando Gordillo soft in the background forest.

The findings from this study provide an improved understanding of the links between migration - remittances - natural resource management, which will become especially relevant as countries struggle to deal with the economic fallout associated with Covid-19.

Philippines landscape

This study uses cross-sectional data from 993 household surveys to analyze the contribution of forests to rural livelihoods in ten forested landscapes in the Philippines. While at the minimum point of a forest transition curve and despite the logging ban, households continue to collect a variety of…

Philippines landscape

The bioeconomy covers a multitude of activities related to the production of biomass, its diverse application and subsequent reuse.

Excerpt of the graphic: "A Sustainable and Circular Bioeconomic".

The bioeconomy covers a multitude of activities related to the production of biomass, its diverse application and subsequent reuse.

Detail of the graphic: "A Sustainable and Circular Bioeconomic"

The article focused on understanding the decision making of smallholder farmers in forest restoration on private farmlands in Uganda.

Clippings from various diagrams.

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