Further news 2022 - 2014

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.

Forest certification has become a strategic tool for companies to secure access to sensitive environmental markets and pursue sustainability commitments. This trend is also visible in Spain, where PEFC certification has increased by 91% in the last five years.

Thünen Institutes of Forestry and Forest Ecosystems in collaboration with CIFOR (Centre of International Forest Research) started a project on forest landscape and ecosystem service restoration (FLESRA) in Ethiopia in March 2019. It will last to December 2024.

This study introduces a new approach to ensure the validity of agent-based simulations. Previous approaches to ensuring the validity of agent-based simulations are often inconsistent and coherent evaluation methods are lacking.

The report is now available for download:

As part of the new permanent task "resource monitoring wood", the first questionnaires have been sent out. Survey results will provide a better overview of wood use and production in the pulp industry as well as the wood-based panel industry.

Christian Morland started working on a PostDoc position on wood products market modelling in the Fields of activity “Forest Product Markets”.

Project brief 2022/39a | Margret Köthke

Christian Morland successfully defended his doctoral thesis on the 27 of October 2022.

This study estimates the revenue from selective timber harvesting in a pilot study in a 20-year-old secondary cloud forest (SCF) in Mexico. Previous research contains very limited information regarding SCF potential for sustainable timber production.