Presentations

The organizers seek abstracts and presentations in the following fields:
 

• Managerial economics and accounting as a base for decision making
  - Monitoring, modelling and accounting tools for evaluating climate damages, forest degradation and deforestation, habitat functions and management options.
  - Data generation, data and benchmarking systems as a basis for decision making
  - Decision support systems for adaptation to shifting framework conditions

• Climate change impact assessment
  - Assessments of forest damage after calamities and extreme weather events
  - Effects of adaptation strategies to climate change on forestry, timber industry and bioeconomy

• Policy impact assessment
  - Effects of nature protection strategies and other strategies for safeguarding forest ecosystem services on forestry, timber industry and bioeconomy
  - Effects of forest- and timber-related policies and regulations on forestry and forest value-chains
  - Payments for ecosystem services - assessment and accounting

• Forests and society
  - Role of (small-scale) forest enterprises / forest owner associations in a changing world
  - Inclusion of environmental, cultural and social aspects of forestry in economic accounting
  - Evaluation of conflicting societal demands on forests and forestry
  - Forestry and rural areas - employment in the forestry sector
  - Effects of the Covid19-Pandemic on forestry and forest owners

• Value chains
  - Innovations and knowledge building for maintaining sustainable forest management
  - Traceability of forest products, e.g. deforestation free value chains, FLEGT/EUTR, etc.
  - CO²-footprints of forest products and value-chains

• Digitization in forestry

• Transdisciplinary research in these fields

• The organizers aim to publish a special issue of peer reviewed conference papers and are currently checking possibilities at different journals.
  More information will follow on this website soon.