Further news 2023 - 2014

On 18th of October 2018 Priska Weller defended her Ph.D. thesis with the title „Zahlungsbereitschaftsanalysen in der umweltökonomischen Bewertung von öffentlichen Gütern des Waldes.“ Her doctorate was result of a co-operation between Thünen Institute and the University of Göttingen.

Congratulation.

On October 8-9, 2018, the international event "Timber Trade and the Conservation of Forest" took place at the Thünen Institute in Hamburg.

Forest politics and forestry in Germany observe increasing public demand for forest ecosystem services (FES).

The Romanian National Institute for Research and Development in Forestry celebrated its 85th anniversary by means of an international scientific conference from 17 to 21 September 2018.

Workshop on multifunctionality of forests in Yangling, organized by Northwest A&F University Yangling, Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH and Munich University of Technology (TUM).

The Expert Panel for the Technical Appraisal of Project Proposals submitted to the International Tropical Timber Organization (ITTO) met at its headquarters in Yokohama, Japan from July 09 to 13, 2018.

The Working Group for Wood Anatomy of the Thünen Centre of Competence provided information on possibilities for the determination of wood type in the context of the EUTR (Import of Wood and Wood Products from Legal Harvesting) and CITES (Protection of Endangered Species) at the BMEL Stand at the…

During the wood resource monitoring project INFRO e. K. - Information Systems for Raw Materials, University of Hamburg and Thünen Institute analyzed wood flows in Germany. Study results close existing gaps in official statistics and provide an important data basis for the implementation of “Charta…

A conversation about forest destruction, illegal logging and certification of wood based products

At the 68th Annual Meeting of the German Forestry Council (DFWR) on June 24th – 26th in Berlin, Prof. Dr. Dieter, director of the Thünen Institute of International Forestry and Forest Economics, informed about the results of a nationwide representative Thünen survey on private forest owners in…