[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 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...

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...

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...

Im Rahmen der Konferenz der Vereinten Nationen für Umwelt und Entwicklung im Juni 1992 in Rio de Janeiro wurde unter anderem das Übereinkommen über die biologische Vielfalt (Convention on Biological Diversity/CBD) verabschiedet. Für die Bundesrepublik Deutschland ist es am 21. März 1994 in...

Seit der Konferenz der Vereinten Nationen über Umwelt und Entwicklung (UNCED) im Jahr 1992 in Rio de Janeiro ist die internationale Gemeinschaft in einen Politikdialog über notwendige Aktionen zur Förderung der Bewirtschaftung, Erhaltung und nachhaltigen Entwicklung der Wälder der Erde (all...

Platform as a service (PaaS) solutions are changing the way how software is produced, distributed, consumed, and priced. To be competitive on the market, PaaS providers have to be aware of drivers of successful platforms and design or adjust solutions accordingly. Surprisingly, prior research...