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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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Great award at the biennale Conference of the Scandinavian Society of Forest Economics 2022 in Umeå (Sweden)

From November 29th until December 2nd, 2022, the international conference of the Scandinavian Society of Forest Economics (SSFE) took place in Umeå. The thematic focuses of this year’s conference lied on forest ecosystem services and the impact assessment of changes in climate and socio-economics.

A group photo: (f.l.t.r.) Prof. Andreas Stephan (Linneaus University) · Prof. Camilla Widmark (Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences) · Dohun Kim (Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences) · Tomke Honkomp (Thünen Institute of Forestry)
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(f.l.t.r.) Prof. Andreas Stephan (Linneaus University) · Prof. Camilla Widmark (Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences) · Dohun Kim (Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences) · Tomke Honkomp (Thünen Institute of Forestry)

This conference is organized in a two-year cycle by the forest economics departments of different universities in Scandinavia. For this year’s edition the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences was in charge.

For the working group Forest Products Markets of the Thünen Institute of Forestry, Julia Tandetzki and Tomke Honkomp participated in the event. Both PhD-students gave insights into their respective researches about the revision of the forest development and the implementation of carbon pricing systems in the global forest sector model GFPM. During the conference the presentation of Tomke Honkomp on carbon pricing systems in forest sector models was distinguished with the Forest Business Economics Award. Co-author was Dr. Franziska Schier. Tomke Honkomp researches in the project BioSDG on the contribution of the bioeconomy to the achievement of the sustainable development goals of the United Nations.

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