Overarching objective of the EU biodiversity strategy for 2030 is recovering biodiversity by strengthening the protection and restoration of nature. Key elements are the creation of protected areas on at least 30% of Europe's land and sea area, including stronger protective measures for forests....

This report summarises existing knowledge on costs of sustainable forest management (SFM) in tropical and sub‐tropical forests. First, the scope of forest‐related cost studies and background information on definitions of and obstacles for SFM are given (Sections 1 and 2). The main part of...

The international community has committed itself to adopt a global climate agreement in Paris in 2015, which shall enter into force in 2020. Common guidelines and commitments have to be developed for two distinctive groups of countries. On the one hand, there are developed countries with...

This collection presents an updated bibliography of those empirical forest ecosystem service valuation studies in the German speaking countries which relate to demand oriented measures of the utility of public goods. The associated database (which is provided as a separately downloadable...

Der vorliegende Bericht befasst sich mit der Berechnung und Interpretation von Strukturparametern des Clusters Forst und Holz für das Jahr 2014 und ergänzt damit die seit 2000 bestehende Zeitreihe. Die Berechnungen basieren auf den Daten des statistischen Bundesamtes und der Bundesagentur für...