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On June 2, Paraguayan Vice Minister of Economy Andrés Gines visited our Institute WF to discuss status and challenges of the EUDR implementation process in Paraguay.

The Anthropocene poses major challenges for the conservation and restoration of ecosystems in human-altered landscapes.

Participatory approaches involving stakeholders for the modeling of human-environmental interactions and social-ecological systems (SESs) have gained increased recognition in recent years.

Socio-Ecological System modelling projects are becoming increasingly complicated, with multiple actors and aspects being the norm.

A stronger consideration of cross-scale dynamics in models of socio-ecological systems (SESs) is of increasing importance, but this is fundamentally difficult to do.

On Friday 9 May Klaus Zimmermann defended his PhD thesis at Hamburg University successful.

Mathew Tello joined the Thünen Institute of Forestry on April 1, 2025, for his compulsory internship working in the GEOS-EUDR project.

In Germany, 24% of the forest area is owned by small private forest owners (SPFOs), each possessing less than 20 hectares of forest. In addition to structural deficits, SPFOs often lack the expertise to achieve their goals and sustainably manage their forests. Professional foresters can provide…

The article evaluates the prediction and forecasting of bilateral trade flows in international wood product markets using two models:

is immigration from other rural regions and in some cases from urban areas. A new study examines the relationship between in-migration, deforestation and land-use change using data from 1123 households in landscapes of the Miombo Forest Region.