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Institute of International Forestry and Forest Economics (TI-IW)
Institution
Section overview
Description
Since October 01, 2013 forest and wood research of the Thünen Institute have a new structure. The new Institute of International Forestry and Forest Economics takes over research activities of the former Thünen Institutes of World Forestry and Forest Economics.
Activities
- Research
Parent institution
Coordinated projects
- A matrix model for tracing the origin of wood-based products
- Actual and potential recreation value of forests in Germany
- Adjustment and updating of the structural data of the forestry and timber cluster
- Adjustment and updating of the structural data of the forestry and timber cluster
- Analysis of added value by wood use
- Analysis of book-keeping data of the Test Enterprise Network Forestry
- Analysis of import of timber and timber products from illegal logging
- Analysis of the competitiveness of German forestry and the diverse branches of the forest products industry
- Analysis of the demand for wood products in the construction industry
- Analysis of the demand for wood products in the construction sector
- Analysis of the German Forestry and Timber Cluster
- Analysis of the land use sector in INDCs (Intended Nationally Determined Contributions) of relevant Non-Annex I-parties on the road to Paris 2015
- Appraisal of raw wood import potentials for Germany
- Approaches for the Improvement of the Economic Sustainability of Natural Forest Management in the Tropics
- Assessing suitable policy instruments for CO2 benefit distribution from forest management
- Assessing suitable policy instruments for CO2 sink benefit distributions from forest management
- Assessment of forest certification systems with reference to the government procurement requirements for timber and timber products
- Assessment of unutilized growth in the frame of Economic Accounts for Forestry
- Biomass yards - intermediary between forst owner and consumer. A model for the optimisation of fuel wood supply
- Careers in Sustainability Execellence. Work package R3: Sustainable Companies and Products
- CC-LandStraD: Climate Change - Land Use Strategies Germany; Subproject: Economic valuation of various forestry land use options with regard to their carbon storage under different environmental conditions
- Climate Change - Land Use Strategies Germany; Sub project: Modelling of different forest land use strategies under changing environmental conditions
- Climate protection by small forest holdings for the benefit of owners and society. Subproject 2: Developing offers for small private forests
- Collaborative Project: Effects of nature conservation requirements on the forestry and wood industry; Subproject 2: Case study-based assessment of the economic impact of the FFH directive on the basis of management plans for forestry operations and the provision of raw material
- Collaborative project: Monitoring the raw material wood. Subproject 3: Special methodological aspects of raw material monitoring
- Collaborative projects: Lignocellulosic Biorefinery - Digestion lignocellulose raw material and full use of components (Phase 2), sub-project 3: Techno-economic and ecological assessment
- Compiling of wood balances (general balances, trade balances) for Germany, the EU, and its member countries
- Conducting analyses of forest products markets
- Continuous assessment, evaluation, and suitable preparation of wood market statistics for questions from the BMEL
- Contributions to close-to-nature management of tropical forests and support of FLEGT-VPA activities in Vietnam
- Cross-national deforestation patterns as basis for REDD+ reference levels
- Determination of the revenue in forest enterprises due to protective and recreational functions of forests
- Determining factors for country-specific success and failure of Payments for Ecosystem Services
- Development and economic analysis of innovative business models for sustainable regional production and utilization of woodfuel
- Development of indicators to measure the fragmentation of forests, taking into account data availability
- Development of methods for the implementation of land use and land use change into Life Cycle Assessment
- Economic Accounts for German Forestry
- Economic analysis of the causes of deforestation in Madagaskar and of the possibilities of their abatement
- Economic Aspects of the Inclusion of Sinks in Climate Policy
- Elaboration of a Management Plan for Sustainable Forest Plantations in Ghana
- Environmental Implications of Land Use, Land-Use Change an Forestry (LULUCF) under a Future Climate Regime
- Environmental Implications of Land Use, Land-Use Change and Forestry (LULUCF) under a Future Climate Regime
- Forest utilisation and rural livelihoods in Nepal
- Global and regional distribution of biomass potentials
- Identification of the origin of wood
- Improvement of the logging statistics
- In-depth analysis of the forest accountancy data network (TBN-Forst) of the Federal Ministry for Food and Agriculture
- Increasing nature protection demands on forestry: analysis of impacts and possible coping strategies
- Influencing factors on forest utilization in participatory forest user groups in Nepal
- Institutional economic analysis and approaches to improve organization and management in small-scale private forest
- Integrated Forest Development and Roundwood Supply in a Global Forest Products Model
- Joint Project BEST: strengthening bioenergy-regions - new system solutions in the field of ecological, economic and social requirements. Work package SÖB 2 (socioeconomic assessment): Local value added analysis
- Key criteria for sustainable management of forest genetic resources in the neotropics
- Landscape Forestry in the Tropics. Towards policy approaches for improving livelihoods, sustainable forest management and conservation
- Life cycle assessment of forest production including forest biomass for energetic use
- Livelihood strategies and income generation in community forest user groups in Nepal
- Methodological further development of the Economic Accounts for Forestry within the scope of integration into the Forest Accounting Framework for Germany
- Monitoring and evaluation of Rural Development Programmes according to VO (EG) 1305/2013 for the states Hesse, Lower Saxony/Bremen, North Rhine-Westphalia and Schleswig-Holstein - Evaluation of forest financing
- Natural Forest Management in Caracaraí, Roraima, Brasilien (Proj.d.Univ. HH)
- Payment for Environmental Services (PES) - LaForeT
- Potential and Dynamic of Carbon Sequestration in Forests and Timber
- Project 4 - Collaborative project development of the statistical design of BZE II, Project University of Hamburg
- Qualitative and quantitative assessment of changes of forests in the framework of the Kyoto Protocoll (Articel 3.3, avoided deforestation) using the example of Madagascar (pilot study) and other tropical countries
- ReWaLe - Quantification and regionalisation of economic values of forest ecosystem services in Germany
- Satellite based monitoring of forest development as basis for simplification of terrestrial inventory methods
- Strains in forest enterprises due to protective and recreational functions of forests
- Strategies for a sustainable biomass use in a European context
- Sustainability assessment of alternative forest management and wood use scenarios with special consideration of climate and biodiversity protection
- Sustainable Buffer Zone Management of Forests in Ghana
- Timber production analyses
- Typology of Forest enterprises
- Update and ex-post evaluation of programms for rural development in Hamburg, Bremen, Lower Saxony, North Rhine Westfalia, Hesse and Schleswig-Holstein
- Update of a database on valuation studies about environmental benefits of European forests
- Updating the existing description of methods to complete the German report tables within the European Integrated Environmental and Economic Accounting for Forests (IEEAF) and composition of a handbook comprising the documentation of data sources and calculation methods
- Valuation of climate protection options in the forest sector
- WaVerNa - Nature conservation contracts in forests - Analyzing options of forest ecology, economics, and legitimation. Subproject 1: Coordination and economic analyzes on the demand side
- Wood energy consumption in private households
- Wood resource monitoring - material and energetic demand for wood
Work package leader of collaborative projects
Involved in research projects
- Adaptation and adaptability of beech provenances (Fagus sylvatica) on climate
- Agricultural Extreme Weather and Risk Management Possibilities
- Analysis of the support scheme for processing and marketing of agricultural products in the context of monitoring and ongoing evaluation of six rural development programmes during the years 2007 to 2013
- Assessment of the sustainability of different forest management and timber use scenarios, with emphasis on climate protection and biodiversity conservation
- Development of an environmentally friendly process for obtaining reinforcing fibers for recovered paper based packaging papers
- Development of methods for the implementation of land use and land use change into Life Cycle Assessment
- Elaboration and analysis of proposals for further development of the 2nd pillar of EU agricultural policy
- Environmental impacts of Land use,Land-use change and Forestry (LULUCF) under a future climate regime
- Environmental impacts of Land use,Land-use change and Forestry (LULUCF) under a future climate regime
- Ex ante evaluation of the Niedersachsen and Bremen Rural Development Programme 2007 - 2013
- Ex ante evaluation of the Rural Development Programme in Lower saxony and Bremen 2014 - 2020
- Forest Landuse potentials and Ecosystem Service Restoration in Africa
- Interdependencies between Land use and Climate Change – Strategies for a sustainable land use management in Germany
- Methodology and quantification of the woody biomass in systems outside forests
- Monitoring and ongoing evaluation of six state-related programmes for the development of rural areas during the years 2007 to 2013: subarea farm investment scheme
- Natural Forest Management in Caracaraí, Roraima, Brasilien (Proj.d.Univ. HH)
- On-going evaluation of six Rural Development Programmes 2007 to 2013
- Pilot study on the genetic monitoring of beech (Fagus syslvatica) and wild cherry (Prunus avium)
- Set up of a standard method for the genetically sustainable seed harvest in approved seed stands
- Strengthening bioenergy-regions - new system solutions in the field of ecological, economic and social requirements. Subproject 3: climate protection achievements of bioenergy
- Studies on the adaptability of Hessian beech forests to changing climate conditions
- Unification of area and land use designation of reporting systems LULUC and Forestry with regard to Art. 3.3 and 3.4 Kyoto protocol
Contact
Institute of International Forestry and Forest Economics
(TI-IW)
Leuschnerstr. 91
21031 Hamburg
Hamburg
Germany
Phone: +49 (0) 40 - 73962 301
Fax: +49 (0) 40 - 73962 399
Email: iw(@)thuenen.de