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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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On July 21, nine participants from the Hamburg Adult Education Center visited the Thünen site in Hamburg-Bergedorf to learn about the work of the Thünen Institute.

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The Scientific Advisory Council on Forest Policy (WBW) has issued a current statement providing guidance on the climate protection benefits of forests and wood use. The document was presented to Parliamentary State Secretary Martina Englhardt-Kopf at the beginning of July.

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The Thünen Institute of Forestry and the Amazon Environmental Research Institute (IPAM, Brazil) will collaborate in the new research project "EUDR Effects".

André Guimarães, executive director of IPAM; Caroline Salomão, IPAM consultant; Richard Fischer, senior scientist Thünen Institute

In collaboration with IUFRO, the global forest science network, the Thünen Institute of Forestry hosted the second ForMIP 2.0 workshop. On site in Hamburg-Bergedorf and worldwide via livestream, they discussed different models for the forestry sector.

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From May 13-17, 2025, Björn Seintsch, Cornelius Regelmann, and Lydia Rosenkranz participated in the International IUFRO Conference of Research Group 4.05 Managerial economics and accounting, entitled "Socioeconomic changes and challenges in the forest sector: acknowledging the role of managerial…

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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.

Foto (from left to right): Andrés Gines, Sven Günter, Matthias Dieter, Margret Köthke, Heiner von Lüpke (all four TI-WF).

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

Transition classes for change between no FLR (forest landscape restoration) and potential FLR scenario for 2024

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

Graph: Percentage of reviewed papers with participation of stakeholders at different stages of the modeling process (n: 79); no participation include studies with unclear status of participation.

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

Image of a chimera as an example of modelling socio-ecological systems, in which the different heads and limbs can point in different directions and pursue different goals.

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