Wälder sind in ihrer Vielfalt an Lebensräumen für Tier-, Pflanzen- und Pilzarten unverzichtbar, um eine Vielzahl von Ökosystemleistungen, wie z. B. Kohlenstoffbindung, Rohholz, sauberes Trinkwasser und Erholungsraum bereit zu stellen sowie vor Naturgefahren zu schützen. Eine hohe genetische...

This document presents the second version of the Global map of Forest Cover for the year 2020 at 10 m spatial resolution (GFC2020 v2 dated 7 December 2024). This product is based on the combination of several global land cover / land use data sets and provides a spatially explicit representation...

The Republic of Congo, a country with extensive tropical forests and low deforestation rates, needs to balance export-driven development, especially through timber production, and sustainable forest management. Despite national commitments to conserve and restore forests, such efforts remain...

Wälder sind in ihrer Vielfalt an Lebensräumen für Tier-, Pflanzen- und Pilzarten unverzichtbar, um eine Viel-zahl von Ökosystemleistungen, wie z. B. Kohlenstoffbindung, Rohholz, sauberes Trinkwasser und Erholungsraum bereit zu stellen sowie vor Naturgefahren zu schützen. Eine hohe...

The main objective of this report is to provide the European Commission with additional information on PFES in EU MS and on the role of these schemes in driving sustainable forest management practices. Building on the Commission guidance on PFES, alongside a literature review and case...

Cette quatrième édition du Rapport sur la Situation Économique du Cameroun s'inscrit dans un programme de rapports annuels analysant les tendances et les contraintes au développement du pays. Elle examine la performance économique du Cameroun dans le contexte mondial et régional, mettant...

Forests are essential for both ecological and economic aspects. Most rural people in developing countries rely on forest resources for their livelihood. Since 1980, trade has substantially affected forest cover, density, and management in developing countries. Few studies have examined how...

This book project examines global forest monitoring as a means to understand the promises and problems of global visualization for climate management. Specifically, the book focuses on Global Forest Watch, the most developed and widely available forest-monitoring platform, created in 1997 by the...

The handbook is primarily aimed at national experts engaged in the production of European forest accounts. This edition reflects the latest European legal requirements. The handbook provides a framework and practical recommendations for establishing European forest accounts. It offers harmonised...

Forests in Europe are strongly affected by climate change and face many additional challenges, such as political uncertainties and a fragmented forest landscape. A key challenge for Europe is to secure, maintain and enhance the sustainable supply of wood from its forest ecosystems. To address...

The report is a useful reference for assessing country situations and trends, which are further explored in brief profiles of the major teak-producing countries in Africa, Asia and Latin America. There is currently no better source of up-to-date information on teak resources and markets. The...

The Lower Mekong Region (LMR) faces significant loss of mangrove forests, yet limited studies have explored this decline in the region. Here, we employ Google Earth Engine and Landsat satellite imagery to assess changes in mangrove forest cover across Myanmar, Thailand, Vietnam, and Cambodia...

Recently, the concerns about climate change have heightened the need for effective methods for estimating and mapping Biomass and Carbon stock at local, national, continental, and global scales. Reliable Biomass and Carbon stock quantification and spatialization is a challenge, especially in...

This paper aims to report the construction process of Environmental Economic Accounts for Water in Brazil and its institutional articulation between national and international public and private institutions, who participated in this construction effort. It also presents the current stage of...

Exclusion zones, like protected areas or setback distances, are the most common policy instrument to mitigate environmental impacts of human land-use, including the deployment of renewable energy sources. While exclusion zones may provide environmental benefits, they may also bring about...

Daten zum Status und zur Veränderung der Landnutzung, also zur Inanspruchnahme von Böden und Landflächen durch den Menschen, stellen eine zentrale Grundlage für eine faktenbasierte Politikberatung und Forschung sowie verschiedene Monitoring- und Evaluierungsaufgaben am Thünen-Institut dar....

Prioritizing sites for conservation has been a central question for over a century. Much work studies large sparsely-populated landscapes to optimize habitat for the highest number (or value) of species for a set cost, given possible ecological interactions between the patches of conserved land....

The ibiCash Protocol serves as a mechanism for encapsulating the time value of forests within a currency made up of units which represent the intangible value of 1 hectare of standing forest for the period of a single day in each of the world's ecoregions. At the end of each day, the system...

Research on payments for ecosystem services (PES) schemes indicates that few of them in fact implement full marketization on the ground, highlighting the need for better understanding of the performance of incompletely marketized PES models. One prominent example of a PES program with incomplete...

Abstract The Amazonian clear-water igapós are floodplains mainly covered by forests with intermediate hydrochemical and edaphic conditions between the nutrient-rich várzea along white-water rivers and the oligotrophic igapós along black-water rivers. Earlier studies indicate the potential for...

As the impacts of climate change and various disturbances on forest ecosystem have become serious, management and research efforts to improve forest biodiversity in response to the changing environment are needed. Biodiversity is associated with functional protection, adaptation to external...

Exclusion zones, like protected areas or setback distances, are the most common policy instrument to mitigate environmental impacts of human land-use, including the deployment of renewable energy sources. While exclusion zones may provide environmental benefits, they may also bring about...

Daten zum Status und zur Veränderung der Landnutzung, also zur Inanspruchnahme von Böden und Landflächen durch den Menschen, stellen eine zentrale Grundlage für eine faktenbasierte Politikberatung und Forschung sowie verschiedene Monitoring- und Evaluierungsaufgaben am Thünen-Institut dar....

Quantifying factors giving rise to temporal variation in forest fires is important for advancing scientific understanding and improving fire prevention. We demonstrate that eighty percent of the large year-to-year variation in forest area burned in California can be accounted for by variation in...

Emissions of greenhouse gases (GHG), and carbon dioxide (CO2) represent a significant threat to environment, economy, and human health. This article summarises the results of an empirical investigation on the potential for economic growth, renewable energy use, technical advancement, and forest...

Beyond the economic support in terms of food, fuelwood, charcoal, wood, and timber supplies that investment towards forest environments provides, its contribution to environmental quality could also provide health benefits. Using data from 16 selected sub-Saharan African countries from 2002 to...