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A timber truck fully loaded with logs drives over a very simple wooden bridge in a forest.
A timber truck fully loaded with logs drives over a very simple wooden bridge in a forest.
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Data Base Forest Services

Bibliography and Data Base on Forest Ecosystem Service Valuation Studies in Austria, Germany and Switzerland

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European Forests Accounts (EFA)

The European Forest Accounts are prepared by the Thünen Institute of International Forestry and Forest Economics on behalf of the German Federal Statistical Office. They show the resource forest and its product wood from the area over the physical ...

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Clusterstatistics Forest and Timber

Based on official statistics on turnover, the number of enterprises and employment we investigate the economy of forestry and wood industry. The main objective of our research is the quantification of the value added in forest and wood industry ...

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World timber trade

The advancing globalization of markets and the internationalization of policies with regard to forest and wood have put the global wood trade flows into the focus of the public. In order to make visible how the world trade flows are structured with ...

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Roundwood balance

The roundwood balance contrasts supply and use of roundwood in Germany. The supply consists of the logged volume (fellings) and imports. The use side consists of exports and domestic consumption. Changes in stocks of roundwood are also recorded.

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General wood balance

The general wood balance draws total supply and total use of wood and wood based products in Germany annually. Wood and wood based products subsume all wood based raw materials as well as semi-finished and finished products. On the supply side, the ...

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Foreign trade balance

The foreign trade balance comprises imports and exports of all wood based goods. The total trade is subdivided into the commodity groups roundwood and residues, semi-finished wood products, pulp, paper and paperboard and finished wood based products.

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Forest Accountancy Data Network

The economic situation of the forestry sector in Germany is reported annually through the Federal Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Regional Identity’s (BMLEH) Forest Accountancy Data Network (FAN). Within the framework of FAN, forestry enterprises ...

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Fellings and use of roundwood

The amount of annual wood fellings and removals are key parameters for forestry and forest management. They are used e.g. to assess sustainability, to estimate unused forest biomass potentials and to calculate annual changes of the storage of carbon ...

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