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The sustainable provision of ecosystem services (ES) in and from mountain regions is of crucial importance to an array of stakeholders and society in general. Mountain ecosystems can only continue to provide all these services in a rapidly changing world if a wide array of ES is considered in forest management at local,...
Water security is a defining challenge for society in the 21st century. The ancient struggle to cope with water access and shocks is now magnified by global change to societies, economies and climate at multiple scales.
The International Conference on Water Security, Risk and Society will be held April 16-18th 2012 at the University of Oxford. The event will convene many of the world’s...
The Leibniz Institute of Ecological Urban and Regional Development (IOER) is organizing an International Conference on Managing Protected Areas under Climate Change - IMPACT - within the framework of the HABIT-CHANGE project (http://www.habit-change.eu) from 24-26 September 2012 in Dresden, Germany.
IMPACT sets out to meet the growing need for sharing knowledge and experiences in...
In 2003 the EU adopted its Action Plan on Forest Law Enforcement, Governance and Trade (FLEGT). In order to promote the import to Europe of legal timber, the EU proceeded in 2005 to introduce Voluntary Partnership Agreements (VPAs) with countries that export tropical timber. As of March 2013, timber placed on the European market must be documented legal, and traders will be required to...
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has released its full report on Managing the Risks of Extreme Events and Disasters to Advance Climate Change Adaptation (SREX). The report examines how climate extremes, in combination with social vulnerability, determine the impacts and likelihood of disasters, and the influence of climate change on climate extremes and other events that...
From London to Sydney, New York and Singapore, people across the world will be joining WWF on 31st March 2012 to switch off their lights. It’s a reminder to us all that we only have one planet Earth. And it’s an urgent message that we want to reduce the impact our energy system has on that planet.
Earth Hour started in 2007 in Sydney, Australia when 2.2 million individuals and more than...
The European Forest Sector Outlook Study II (EFSOS II) is the latest in a series of studies, which started in 1952, to provide a regular outlook report for the European forest sector. All these studies have aimed to map out possible or likely future developments, on the basis of past trends, as a contribution to evidence-based policy formulation and decision making.
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In this study, international trends and major drivers of change for forest resources and wood use are reviewed and, together with projections of future developments in the use and supply of wood resources as well as wood-product market developments in Europe for the period 2010 to 2030, analysed as to their impact on the Swedish forest sector. Demand is foreseen to vastly exceed the potential...
L’étude des perspectives du secteur forestier en Europe expose les tendances à long terme de l’offre et de la demande de produits forestiers (bois ronds, sciages, panneaux, pâte, papier, produits non ligneux) et de services liés aux forêts ainsi que les perspectives à l’horizon 2020, en Europe occidentale et orientale de même que dans quatre grands pays de la CEI, notamment en Russie. Elle...
The European Forest Sector Outlook Study presents long term trends for supply and demand of forest products (roundwood, sawnwood, panels, pulp, paper, non-wood products) and services and outlook to 2020, in western and eastern Europe and four major CIS countries, including Russia. It reviews trends for the forest resource, trade, markets and recycling. It stresses the future shift in the...
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