Further news 2024 - 2014

New research project „Wood resource monitoring – material and energetic demand for wood” starts.

At Friday, the 13th February 2015, Dr. Björn Seintsch was a studio guest in the TV-show “Makro” in 3Sat. The topic of the broadcast was “Forestry: Hunger for Wood”. Dr. Björn Seintsch answered questions about the subjects sustainability, exploitation efficiency and the latest high national lumber…

The expert panel for technical appraisal of project proposals of the International Tropical Timber Organization’s (ITTO) was held from 01. – 05.02.2015 in Yokohama/Japan.

The work section Sustainable Tropical Forest Management has been represented by Dr. Margret Köthke at the event "Transforming Mountain Forestry" in Dehradun, India.

Since January 2015 Franziska Schier is a new staff member in our 'forest products markets' department.

The Thünen Working Paper 36 on "Assessing the relevance of countries and their capacities for reporting forests under UNFCCC" has been published.

The Thünen Working Paper 32 on "Clusterstatistik Forst und Holz - Tabellen für das Bundesgebiet und die Länder 2000 bis 2012" has been published.

Thünen-Research Prize 2014 for Margret Köthke, Bettina Schröppel and Peter Elsasser

Prof. Dr. Matthias Dieter Member of the European Commission Expert Group on Forest-based Industries and Sectorally Related Issues

Christian Morland joined our department 'Forest Products Markets' in August 2014.