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
Publications
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.