Further news 2023 - 2014

Four forestry scientists from the Yunnan Academy of Forestry (YAF) from Kunming, China, paid a visit to the Thünen Institute of International Forestry and Forest Economics (TI-WF) in Hamburg from May 24 to June 5, 2018.

International migration can have both positive and negative impacts on the economic development of migrant-sending countries. The goal of this study is to contribute to a better understanding of the role of international migration and remittances on the economic development of sending communities.

Forests are exposed to increasing risk from extreme storm events. As a result of such storm events, forest enterprises store substantial amounts of timber surpluses, sometimes over several years. Despite a fundamental awareness of such storage processes, there is insufficient knowledge about the…

Under the title "Impacts of changing coniferous and non-coniferous wood supply on forest product markets: a German scenario case study", study results on possible market effects due to changing coniferous and non-coniferous industrial roundwood supply were published.

Environmental services of forests often are public goods for which market prices do not exist. Their economic value however can be empirically determined with the help of suitable methods.

Forests do not only produce timber, but they provide a multitude of additional services to society and the environment. This seems a well-known fact ¬– however, concrete information is thin on the ground when it comes to specifying how much our society benefits from such services in economic terms,…

On 1 May 2018, Dr. Matthias Bösch took up a permanent position in the department “Forest Products Markets“

After one and half year of intensive preparation, scoping, typhoons and rebel encounters we are pleased to announce that LaForeT Philippines completed its fieldwork in its 12 study landscapes in April 2018.

During the European Conference of Tropical Ecology (26.-29.03.2018) in Paris, Dr. Sven Günter, team leader of the working area “Forestry Worldwide”, was elected again into the scientific advisory board of the “Society for Tropical Ecology” (Gesellschaft für Tropenökologie, GTÖ).

In March 2013, the EU Timber Regulation (EUTR) came into force, which aims to ban imports of illegally logged timber and products made from it. At the same time, the Thünen Centre of Competence on the Origin of Timber was founded at the Thünen Institute.