Further news 2023 - 2014

In the European Forest Accounts (EFA), the resource forest and its product wood, from its area to physical stock, its value and uses, up to the processing of the wood in the timber industry, is presented for Germany. Since 2006, the EFA has been calculated by the Thünen Institute of International…

Agent-based modelling (ABM) simulates Social-Ecological-Systems (SESs) based on the decision-making and actions of individual actors or actor groups, their interactions with each other, and with ecosystems.

First results of the LaForeT Project were presented at the 1. International Conference on Forest Landscapes and Sustainability of the Universidad Estatal Amazónica in Puyo, Ecuador.

Many of the benefits society derives from forests have public good characteristics since users cannot be easily charged for them; these benefits may not be reflected in market values. It is, therefore, crucial to estimate the value that individuals place on such non-market benefits.

Our preliminary calculations for the year 2018 show that the fellings in Germany increased by 10% to 73.7 million m³ (coarse wood under bark) compared to 2017. Softwood fellings increased by 12.8% to 53.1 million m³, while hardwood fellings increased by 3.4% to 20.6 million m³.

Dr. Bolier Torres, counterpart of the LaForeT project in Ecuador, has successfully finished his PhD.

Wood energy represents approximately half of total German wood demand. Residential wood energy consumption accounted for 49% in total wood energy consumption in 2015, even exceeding wood energy demand by the wood processing industry (22%).

ValoFor: Small Forests - Big Players: Valorising small scale forestry for a bio-based economy

Since April 1st, Ulrike Saal is a new team member in the department “Wood markets“. She will be working within the project Systemic Wood Resource Monitoring, focussing on continuation aspects.

This year's Joint FAO/UNECE Working Party on Forest Statistics, Economics and Management, which took place from 27-29 March 2019 in Geneva, was chaired by Prof. Dr. Matthias Dieter (right).