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Landscape Forestry in the Tropics - LaForeT - Final workshop in Zambia

The final workshop of the LaForeT Zambia component was organized on 1 Dec 2022 by the Copperbelt University in Kitwe, Zambia.

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An illustration of participatory land use mapping "Sailunga"

Ph.D. Thesis successfully finalized

Fernando Gordillo Vera successfully defended his doctoral thesis on 16. February 2023.

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A group photo: (f.l.t.r.) Prof. Dr. Roland Olschewski (Examiner of the Defense), Prof. Dr. Peter Elsasser (Supervisor), Fernando Gordillo Vera, Prof. Dr. Matthias Dieter (Doctoral Supervisor), Prof. Dr. Bernhard Möhring (Reviewer of the Dissertation)

One-month internship at the Thünen Institute of Forestry

As part of his career training as a forestry inspector candidate at the Lower Saxony Chamber of Agriculture, Mr. Lorenz Friedrich is completing a one-month internship at the Thünen Institute of Forestry in February 2023.

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A portrait of Lorenz Friedrich.

David Schicketanz - new staff member

Since February 2023, David Schicketanz has been joining our team as a research assistant in the fields of activity "Forestry in Germany" in the project "Remote sensing based National Detection Sytem for Forest Damages".

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A portrait of David Schicketanz.

Ph.D. thesis successfully finalized

Emilin Joma da Silva successfully defended her doctoral thesis on 10. February 2023.

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f.l.t.r. Prof. Dr. Elisabeth Magel (Examination Board), Emilin Joma da Silva, Prof. Dr. Jörg B. Ressel (Retired professor/guest), Prof. Dr. Andreas Krause (PhD supervisor), Prof. Dr. Bodo Saake (Examination Board), Prof. Dr. Udo Mantau (PhD supervisor)

Monitoring the bioeconomy of Uruguay: bio-based value chains and related sustainability effects

Project brief 2023/15a | Paola Pozo Inofuentes

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Monitoring the bioeconomy of Uruguay: bio-based sectors and related sustainability effects

Project brief 2023/03a | Fernando Gordillo

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Members of the Scientific Advisory Board for Forest Policy of BMEL handed over a position paper to Federal Minister Cem Özdemir.

Matthias Dieter from Thünen Institute of Forestry has been part of the handover delegation.

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Photo: f.l.t.r: Prof Ewald Endres, University of Applied Science Weihenstephan-Triesdorf, forest law and forest policy; Prof Matthias Dieter, Director Thünen Institute of Forestry; Federal Minister Cem Özedemir; Prof Ulrich Schraml, Director Forest Experimental and Research Institute Baden-Württemberg

A model to trace the origin of wood contained in finished wood and paper products

Project brief 2023/16a | Matthias Bösch

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Forest policy analysis in Ecuador published:

Policy mixes are formally mostly coherent and consitently designed.

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