Further news 2023 - 2014

Thünen Institutes of Forestry and Forest Ecosystems in collaboration with CIFOR (Centre of International Forest Research) started a project on forest landscape and ecosystem service restoration (FLESRA) in Ethiopia in March 2019. It will last to December 2024.

This study introduces a new approach to ensure the validity of agent-based simulations. Previous approaches to ensuring the validity of agent-based simulations are often inconsistent and coherent evaluation methods are lacking.

The report is now available for download:

As part of the new permanent task "resource monitoring wood", the first questionnaires have been sent out. Survey results will provide a better overview of wood use and production in the pulp industry as well as the wood-based panel industry.

Christian Morland started working on a PostDoc position on wood products market modelling in the Fields of activity “Forest Product Markets”.

Project brief 2022/39a | Margret Köthke

Christian Morland successfully defended his doctoral thesis on the 27 of October 2022.

This study estimates the revenue from selective timber harvesting in a pilot study in a 20-year-old secondary cloud forest (SCF) in Mexico. Previous research contains very limited information regarding SCF potential for sustainable timber production.

After a long corona break, IUFRO Division 3.08.00 was able to meet for the first time in Ginowan, Okinawa Prefecture, from Oct. 26 - Nov. 01 for its international conference.

On 6th October 2022, Dr Rattiya S. Lippe and Dr Jörg Schweinle contributed to the special event “Beyond numbers: income, employment and decent work in forestry”, at the 8th World Forest Week, organized by FAO in collaboration with the ILO and UNECE.