[Foreword] Globally, around 15 million hectares of forests - mainly tropical forests - are converted to other uses or lost through natural causes each year. Without forests mankind has no chance to survive. However, the poorest of the poor are directly dependent on forests as a resource of food,...

The optical constants of thin molybdenum layers and molybdenum/tin oxide cermets, produced by a batch sputtering deposition system, were determined by spectroscopic ellipsometry. The geometrical structure of the layers and the embedded particles was analysed with an atomic force microscope. The...

Since the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED) in Rio de Janeiro in 1992, the international community entered a political dialogue on required actions for the promotion of management, conservation and sustainable development of the world's forests (all types of...

The question of protecting forests under an international binding convention has challenged nations like few other environmental issues and dominated much of the 'United Nations Conference on Environment and Development' (UNCED) in 1992, where countries ultimately adopted a set of...

At UNFF-6 the Chairman’s Text/Resolution emphasized the importance of strengthening political commitment and action at all levels to implement effectively the sustainable management of all types of forests and to achieve the global objectives set out in the resolution, by requesting the United...

Die Zerschneidung und Fragmentierung von Wäldern ist nicht nur hinsichtlich der Störung von Ökosystemen und Habitaten bedenklich sondern zählt zu einer der wichtigsten Ursachen des Aussterbens von Arten und der Gefährdung biologischer Vielfalt. Neben dem Verlust von Flächen, der...

In order to monitor and report progress towards sustainable forest management (SFM), the third Ministerial Conference on the Protection of Forests in Europe (MCPFE) adopted a set of pan-European criteria and indicators in Lisbon in 1998. The criteria and indicators cover economical, ecological...

REDD (Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation) has been suggested as a climate change mitigation strategy that is based on the philosophy to reward countries for reducing their deforestation and forest degradation by financial benefits via the generation of carbon credits....