2021 

 10.03.2021

The 3rd International Forest Policy Meeting (IFPM3) will be hosted

by our Chair!

This 3rd International Forest Policy Meeting (IFPM3) is planned as an online forum for discussion and exchange of ideas on to-date research in the area of forest policy. Traditional presentations about forest policy research will be complemented by the formats of 3-minutes-thesis presentations. The program will be completed by a key note presentation and different forms of online interaction.
The purpose of the meeting is to facilitate networking and dialogue amongst forest policy interested researchers with a particular emphasis on creating a safe and nurturing atmosphere for junior researchers to present and discuss their work. For this reason, we welcome all forest policy interested scholars – and in particular junior scholars – to present their work and engage with each other in the online sessions and plenaries.

We are looking forward to seeing you all on the 17 and 18th of March!

For more informations about the event, please visit: https://ifpm3.info/

2020

22.10.2020

Wissenschaftliche/Studentische Hilfskraft (w/m/d) gesucht!

Im Projekt DIVINKO suchen wir ab 1. Januar 2021 einewissen-schaftliche oder studentische Hilfskraft zur Unterstützung der laufenden Forschungsarbeiten. Das Projekt befasst sichin einem ersten Schrittmit der Fragestellung, welche Bedingungen die Bereitschaft zur Zusammenarbeitzwischen Waldbesitzenden in Forstwirtschaftlichen Zusammenschlüssen beeinflussen.

Im weiteren Projektverlauf sollen über eine partizipative Methode aus der Zukunftsforschung (Backcasting Workshops) Soziale Innovationen für Forstwirtschaftliche Zusammenschlüsse entwickelt werden. Besonderes Augenmerk wirdhierbei auf Gruppen von Waldbesitzenden gelegt, die in der Kooperation bisher vernachlässigt worden sind, wie beispielsweise Frauen oder Waldbesitzende mit nicht ökonomischen Interessen.

Weitere Informationen finden Sie hier

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14.09.2020

Assessing flood related disaster prevention and development in Ghana

Three researchers from our chair are involved within the international project PARADeS - Participatory assessment of flood related disaster prevention and development of an adapted coping system in Ghana.
The research team in Freiburg is led by Dr. Sylvia Kruse (principle investigator) together with Post Doc Dr. Ida Wallin. Mr Fafali Roy Ziga-Abortta is the newest addition to our team and will be conducting his  PhD studies within the project.

The aim of the PARADeS project is to contribute to enhancing Ghana’s national flood disaster risk reduction and management strategy by investigating key mechanisms (drivers, pressures, state, impact, response), existing flood risk management, human-water interaction, and development of scenarios, action plans and feasible measures. This will be carried out through innovative socio-technical participatory approaches.

The team at the Chair of Forest and Environmental policy (Uni-Freiburg) leads the work-packages on policy and participatory governance through analysing deficits, structures and strengths of existing policies and governance in Flood Risk Management (FRM) and Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) in Ghana, identifying policy networks for FRM and evaluating the insights together with stakeholders to identify policy options for participatory flood risk governance and to support their long-term implementation through capacity building.

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06.03.2020

We're looking for student assistants for project on illegal exploitation

of natural resources 

We're looking for 1-2 Student Assistents to perform literature Search, collection and coding 

Are you interested to learn more about illegal exploitation of natural resources (ex.,Forests…)? 

We are looking on short notice for 1-2 student assistants at the chair of Forest and Environmental Policy for searching and collecting scientific literature on illegal natural resource activities. Subsequently, the collected papers will be coded, responding to a number of questions. It is possible to use the data as the basis for a thesis. 

Requirements: 

• Good English language skills

• Precise and reliable way of working 

Please contact  (soon) per email:  

 daniela.kleinschmit@ifp.uni-freiburg.de

03.03.2020

Two PhDs from our chair get prize at 3MT competition!

Our faculty´s Graduate School ESGC hosted today, 03.03.2020 the second 3 Minute Thesis Competition (3MT). The 3MT offers doctoral students the opportunity to present their research in three minutes to an interested lay audience in both an entertaining and easily understood way. This format fits perfectly into one of the main goals of the Graduate School, which is to make the research conducted at the faculty more visible.

Two of our colleagues Eulalia Baulenas and Nicholas Ndlovu snatched the Public's Choice Award and the Runner-up Prize!

Congratulations!

28.02.2020

Gewinnerteam Wissenschaftsjahr 2020- Bioökonomie

Jährlich ruft Wissenschaft im Dialog im Auftrag des Bundesministeriums für Bildung und Forschung zumaktuellen Thema des Wissenschaftsjahres den Hochschulwettbewerb aus. Studierende, Promovierende und Postdocs sind aufgefordert, Vorschläge für Kommunikationsprojekte einzureichen.

Im Rahmen des Wissenschaftsjahrs 2020 - Bioökonomie sind im Hochschulwettbewerb 15 Gewinnerteams von Nachwuchsforschenden und jungen Forschergruppen für ihre Kommunikationsideen ausgezeichnet worden.

Alex Giurca (Forstpolitik) und Markus Herbener (Forstgeschichte) sind eines der Gewinnerteams, und dürfen ihr  Projekt "Die Abenteuer von Alex und der Bioman - ein Comicbuch zur Bioökonomie" verwirklichen.

Herzlichen Glückwunsch!

19.02 .2020

The future of forests managed for our manifold demands-

an international perspective

Forests are among our planet’s most important human life-supporting ecosystem.

But: how do major global challenges such as climate change and biodiversity loss affect forests globally, and what can forest governance and management do? How can we deal with rising and changing demands for forest products and ecosystem services due to global population and economic growth, and urbanization? How can forest policy navigate between demands originating from other policy sectors, such as agriculture, environment, energy, and rural development? 

We will discuss these and more questions in the framework of the international conference “Governing and managing forests for multiple ecosystem services across the globe”, taking place on 26th-28th February at the Caesar Research Centre, Ludwig-Erhard-Allee 2, 53175 Bonn, Germany.

The conference is organized by European Forest Institute in collaboration with several international partners, and it will bring together ca. 200 international policymakers, practitioners and researchers from different fields, promoting interdisciplinary and inter-generational dialogues. Our colleague Dr. Metodi Sotirov will be among the speakers. 

Together we will explore how trade-offs and synergies between different forest ecosystem services are perceived, governed and managed across Europe and beyond. We will exchange distinct concepts for integrated forest management that tries to meet diverse societal demands. Furthermore, we will discuss how such management concepts impact both forest ecology and economics, and how these are linked to specific outcomes like biodiversity and ecosystem services.

The conference will also be livestreamed via https://www.youtube.com/user/EuropeanForest/live, 

28.01 .2020

Call for papers for the ECPR general conference  

“Illegal use of natural resources: conflicts, governance settings and policy response”

Chair: Daniela Kleinschmit (University of Freiburg, Germany)

Co-Chair: Sylvia Kruse (University of Freiburg, Germany)

The panel is part of the section Environmental Politics at the ECPR 2020 General Conference. Please submit papers until 18 February 2020 through the ECPR website. Please notify chair and co-chair of your submission.

Natural resources are threatened by an increasing expansion of illegal activities all over the globe. Illegal use of natural resources leads in most cases to violations of regulations, property rights, and social justice and might negatively affect sustainable development in the long run. At the same time, unauthorized or illegal activities are common and sometimes even socially accepted. Some of these illegal activities gained high public and political attention, e.g. hunting rhinos. In contrast, others are hardly acknowledged, e.g. illegal extraction of water or unauthorized sand exploitation, and have not received policy responses so far.

This panel aims to provide an analysis of conflicts, governance settings and policy responses related to diverse forms of illegal use of natural resources, including for example illegal logging, illegal fishing, poaching, illegal mining or illegal use of water from a governance perspective. Based on the assumption that weak governance supports illegal activities the governance context of and policy responses to illegal natural resource activities are of particular interest for this panel. The panel considers illegal use of natural resources as neglected topic of environmental politics and welcomes both empirical and theoretical contributions. Presentations may take an international relations, public policy or environmental governance perspective covering diverse theoretical and conceptual schools of thoughts. Interest, institution or idea driven presentation will provide various analysis of conflicts about, policy responses to and governance settings of illegal natural resource activities.Case studies, case comparisons as well as empirical analysis on different scales will help to draw conclusions across sectors about causes and management of conflicts, the effect of governance settings as well as policy responses to illegal activities.

Complementing the empirical perspective theoretical contributions, e.g. discussing the concept of illegality in comparison to crime, conflicts about ownership, land tenure and common goods, or reflecting on the role of international relations are invited to contribute.The panel is intended as a starting point for further discussions on illegal use of natural resources from an international relations, public policy as well as governance perspective heading for a common publication. 

2019

12.07 .2019

Peter Kanowski receives honorary doctorate 

The Faculty of Environment and Natural Resources at the University of Freiburg has awarded a honorary doctorate to Prof. Dr. Peter Kanowski from the Australian National University in Canberra. Prof. Kanowski is one of the most renowned researchers worldwide in the field of international forest governance. For the past three years, he has also been teaching at the University of Freiburg for one month every summer. He has contributed significantly to cultivating the international focus of the University of Freiburg’s Master of Sciences in Forest Sciences degree program.

The University of Freiburg thanks Prof. Kanowski for his commitment and hopes to benefit from his expertise for many more years to come. 

                  ^{Dr Lisa Robins (L), Prof. Dr. Peter Kanowski (M) and Prof. Dr. Daniela Kleinschmit (R) at the award ceremony (J. Bauhus)}

11.07.2019

Erasmus Prize for Liberal Arts go to one of our PhD graduates 

The University College Freiburg (UCF) of the University of Freiburg has awarded the 2019 Erasmus Prize for the Liberal Arts and Sciences to Lena Kulla and Dr. Alex Giurca. 

The UCF awards the prize annually in two categories, that cover both Bachelor and Master theses as well as dissertations and postdoctoral work, for the exemplary treatment of a subject including interdisciplinary aspects, and for enabling bridges to be built between different disciplines. The award is sponsored by the Freiburg-Nördlicher Breisgau Sparkasse.

Alex analyzed the concept of the forest-based bioeconomy from an interdisciplinary perspective in his dissertation. His

 work drew on approaches from political science and innovation studies. In addition, Alex focused on different networks of players in three European countries – Germany, Finland and Sweden – and examined how the bioeconomy discourse is shaped and by whom. His results show that the relationship of the forest and wood sectors to the bioeconomy differs in the three countries. Alex has found that in Germany in particular, specialized networks of players from the chemistry and biotechnology industry dominate the debate, and other players are only marginally relevant. His work was supervised by the head of out chair, Prof Dr. Daniela Kleinschmit and Prof. Dr. Anne Toppinen from the University of Helsinki.

                                                                                   ^{Award ceremony (I. Wallin)}

11.06.2019

Studentische Hilfskraft gesucht  

Für die Projektmitarbeit im Rahmen des SFB Projekts „Konstruktion von Muße im Wald“ suchen wir eine engagierte und zuverlässige studentische Hilfskraft.

Zeitraum: Einstellung ab sofort

Umfang: 20 – 30 h pro Monat

Aufgaben: Projektassistenz, qualitative und quantitative Datenanalyse, Literaturrecherche

Voraussetzung: Sie sind zuverlässig, selbstständig und genau arbeitend und haben Interesse an einem innovativen und spannenden Forschungs-zugang in der Forstwissenschaft.

Ihre Bewerbung senden Sie bitte ab sofort an: sibylle.roth@ifp.uni-freiburg.de

09.05.2019

KERNiG präsentiert Forschungsergebnisse auf der Slow Food Messe

in Stuttgart  

Wo lässt sich besser über nachhaltige Ernährung in der Stadt sprechen, als umrahmt von kulinarischen Köstlichkeiten bester handwerklicher Qualität? In Zusammenarbeit mit dem Städtetag Baden-Württemberg hat das Verbundforschungsprojekt KERNiG am 25. April 2019 auf der Slow Food Messe in Stuttgart seine Forschungsergebnisse vorgestellt. Von der Professur für Forst- und Umweltpolitik hat die Teilprojektleiterin Sylvia Kruse die Ergebnisse aus dem Bereich Politikintegration auf dem Podium vorgestellt und diskutiert. In einer abschließenden Posterpräsentation hat die Projektmitarbeiterin Jana Baldy ein Poster mit dem Titel „Framing kommunaler Ernährung: Rahmen und ihre Bedeutung für eine nachhaltige Gestaltung des Ernährungssystems“ vorgestellt.

Einen kurzen Bericht über die gesamte Veranstaltung finden Sie unter folgendem Link

Hier können Sie unseren Poster herunterladen: 

18.04.2019

Save the Date - 25. April 2019: Abschlussveranstaltung "Nachhaltig satt

in der Stadt" 

Das Forschungsprojekt KERNiG zu nachhaltigen kommunalen Ernährungssystemen präsentiert am 25. April 2019 auf der Slow-Food-Messe in Stuttgart seine Ergebnisse.

Die Ernährung ist aus Konsumsicht für etwa ein Drittel des ökologischen Fußabdrucks verantwortlich und daher ein wichtigerer Faktor für die Nachhaltigkeit. Ernährung müsste entsprechend auch in den Nachhaltigkeitsbestrebungen von Städten ein drängendes Thema sein. Das Verbundprojekt „Kommunale Ernährungssysteme als Schlüssel zu einer umfassend-integrativen Nachhaltigkeits-Governance“ (KERNiG) der Universitäten Freiburg, Kassel, Friedrichshafen, des Forschungsinstituts für biologischen Landbau sowie NAHhaft e.V. zeigt am Beispiel von Leutkirch im Allgäu und Waldkirch im Breisgau auf, wie sich Ernährungssysteme kommunalpolitisch in Richtung Nachhaltigkeit verändern lassen.

Veranstaltungsdetails:

Donnerstag, den 25. April 2019 von 15:15 – 18:00 Uhr

auf der Slow-Food-Messe in Stuttgart, Halle 5, Forumsbühne

Klicken Sie hier zur Anmeldung

Zum Herunterladen des Programms klicken Sie hier

                                                                                                  ^{Der Markt in Leutkirch (Foto: Stadt Leutkirch im Allgäu)}

21.03.2019

How can trees help you find health and happiness?

Join digital summits on International Day of Happiness (March 20) and International Day of Forests (March 21) to hear three fascinating speakers explore the relationship between nature and human health and wellbeing 

Join Dr. Qing Li, a global leader on forest medicine, and Julia Plevin, design entrepreneur and healing specialist and Sibylle Roth, Ph.D. candidate at our chair researching ‘Muße’, a German concept related to mindfulness and forests.

Sign up to join them on 28 March:  http://ow.ly/3ycX30o5fwF

11.02.2019

Looking for an exciting Bachelor/Master thesis topic?

Dear students,

the chair group Forest and Environmental Policy invites students to the presentation of topics for Msc/Bsc thesis in the field of forest and environmental policy on 14th Feburary 2019, 14:30-15:30h in the seminar room/library Herderbau 4th floor. The topics that are currently offered for Msc/Bsc thesis will be presented by the supervisors followed by the possibility to talk about details on requirements, timeframe etc.

An overview on the current topics at the chair group Forest and Environmental Policy can be found under http://www.forstpolitik-umweltpolitik.uni-freiburg.de/lehre

There is also the possibility that students who bring their own ideas for thesis topics talk to potential first or second supervisors at the proposed date.

See you there!

16.01.2019

The wolf attracts big crowd! 

The seminar “Der Wolf - eine sozialwissenschaftliche Auseinandersetzung“ filled the room on the evening of the 15th of January. Since 2012 there are wolves both in Denmark and the Schwarzwald in Germany. Ever since scholars and other observers in both countries have seen a conflict escalation with fake news and myths spreading like fire throughout different media. Yesterday’s seminar aimed at giving new perspectives on the wolf issue from different social science disciplines and reflect upon future opportunities for a more constructive debate about wolfs in society.  

Dr. Stefan Ehrhart from the FVA Freiburg gave a general introduction about the wolf in Germany and presented results from their recent survey focusing on stakeholders’ values and believes related to nature and wildlife in and around the North Schwarzwald National Park. The seminar moved on to the cultural anthropological perspective and the presentation by Dr Marion Mangelsdorf, University of Freiburg. She gave an overview of Human Animal studies and different perspectives on animals, especially wolves, throughout history. Did you know it was only in the early 19th century that philosopher Jeremy Bentham opened up for the discussion that animals should be protected from suffering within the frames of the law? How we regard animals has consequences for how we should approach the management of Wolves, Marion concluded. The final presentation by Dr  Hans Peter Hansen, Aarhus University (Denmark) gave some hope concerning the possibilities to find common grounds to discuss the future of the wolf - at least in Denmark. The majority of wolves in Denmark are located in North-Western Jutland where Hans Peter together with colleagues have facilitated a citizen dialogue regarding the future of the wolf in the area. To their surprise they found that there are not so many extremists among the local populations, but that many are ambivalent when it comes to the wolf’s existence locally. This means that there is a possibility to find common stand points and pathways through deliberation.

We thank the speakers for their interesting and through-provoking presentations and the audience for their interest and good questions!

08.01.2019

Vortrag zum Thema "Transforming Water Governance: A diagnostic

approach"

Am Montag den 14. Januar um 10:30 Uhr wird Frau Prof. Claudia Pahl-Wostl von der  Universität Osnabrück  einenVortragzum Thema "Transforming Water Governance: A diagnostic approach"  halten. Die Verantaltung findet im Seminarraum 400, Herderbau, Freiburg statt und alle sind herzlich eingeladen.

2018

20.12.2018

Der Wolf- eine Sozialwissenschaftlische Auseinandersetzung 

das kommende Seminar Institut für Forstwissenschaften findet am 15.01.2019 statt und widmet sich dem sehr aktuellen Thema „Der Wolf – eine sozialwissenschaftliche Auseinandersetzung“. Zu diesem Seminar sind Sie herzlich eingeladen.

Es findet ab 17.00 im Raum 400 im 4. OG des Herderbaus statt. Program

10.12.2018

International authors’ workshop on “Global Forest Environmental

Frontiers” hosted in Freiburg

Dr. Metodi Sotirov from our chair, together with Dr. Georg Winkel from the European Forest Institute hosted a two-day authors’ workshop here in Freiburg between the 5th and 6th of December. The goal of the workshop was to present and discuss leading policy and natural scientists’ scientific contributions for a special issue that will address the “Global Forest Environmental Frontier”. The frontier concept shows diverse facets including policy and economy led changes and functional tensions at the bio-physical borders between different land uses such as forestry, agriculture, nature conservation, and water management. It also deals with policy changes and management conflicts between actors and institutions from the forestry, environmental and land use sectors. The main substantive foci include controversies related to deforestation, forest degradation, illegal logging and associated timber trade, as well as livelihoods issues in the Amazon, Central Africa, China, Russia, and South-East Asia. Further important foci are forest biodiversity loss, the controversial role of forests and forestry in climate change mitigation and adaptation, forest sustainability risks (e.g., forest fires) and conflicts over multiple competing forest uses in Europe, Canada, the US, Australia and New Zealand. 

The special issue aims to take stock of, review and synthesize the socio-environmental research efforts in policy analysis, environmental governance, sociology, political economy and political ecology that have been conducted along this frontier in the forest regions of the world. It will also give a broad overview and comparative synthesis of the current state, dynamics, and possible future directions of the “Global Forest Environment Frontier”. 

The international authors’ workshop brought together regional insights and analytical perspectives building upon reviews and original thematic contributions relating to major topics along the forest environment frontier. The special issue is planned to appear in 2020. The organizers of the workshop are grateful to Stihl Foundation for the generous financial support for this event. 

                                                                       ^{Authors' workshop participants (Photo: I.Wallin)}

20.11.2018

The future role of forest bioeconomy in Europe 

Prof Dr. Daniela Kleinschmit discussed today, 20th of November 2018, the importance of circular forest-bioeconomy, during the Forest-based sector technology platform (FTP) conference 2018, held in Vienna, Austria. The focus of this year's conference is on "Vision 2040: the future role of the forest-based bioeconomy in Europe".

The FTP conference 2018 is an event of the Austrian EU presidency, organised by the Forest-based Sector Technology Platform.

Find out more about the program here

                                                                                      ^{Photo: Andre Purret} 

12.11.2018

PhD Position at our chair: Agroforestry in Southern Africa 

Our chair is offering a PhD position on "Agroforestry in Southern Africa - new Pathways of innovative landuse systems under a changing climate". The position is part-time (65 %), Start-date: At the earliest possible date. The position is limited to 30.11.2021.

Requirements:

• Exceptional results in a Master Programme on social sciences and environment.

• Knowledge of agroforestry, environmental governance or similar in Southern Africa

• Experiences in data collection and analysis

• Own initiative, independent working style, ability to work in (intercultural) teams, social competencies

• Very good knowledge of English

• Knowledge of working with different disciplines and practitioners.

Find out more about here

For more information, contact  Dr. Lars Borrrass on the phone number +49 761 3720 or E-Mail Lars.Borrass@ifp.uni-freiburg.de

05.10.2018

Second Indo-German Dialogue on Green Urban Practices

Are you interested in intercultural dialogue, transdisciplinarity, urban transformation and sustainable land use?

Then take part in the second Indo-German Dialogue on Urban Green Practices, Nov 8-10 in Herderbau, Freiburg

University.

The core topics will be education, communication and training.

Find more details on the dialogue and the registration HERE. 

01.10.2018

Visit from New Zealand

We are happy to welcome Dr. Peter Edwards, researcher at the New Zealand Forest Research Institute to our chair!

He has come for a week of research collaboration on the topic of participation in relation to a potential LBA on forests within the EU.

Last month, a roundtable meet was organized in Bratislava for finding a cause of action. Peter together with Prof. Dr. Daniela Kleinschmit attended the meeting as observers.

During his time here in Freiburg, Peter hopes to advance some research papers and connect with research colleagues before he continues to TESAF, University of Padua in Italy for a 1-month fellowship. 

27.07.2018

Thank you Peter, and see you next year! 

Peter Kanowski, professor at the Australia National University (ANU), has been guest professor here at the chair for the last three weeks, teaching the professional course International Forest Governance to students and practitioners.

Peter has been visiting our institute every summer, for a couple of years now, sharing his experience with students from Freiburg and around world. We thank Peter for his excellent efforts during the course and look forward to having him here again next year!

13.06.2018

Überraschungsurteil im Kartellverfahren gegen Baden-Württemberg 

Forschung zur Pfadabhängigkeit bekommt neue Richtung

Das seit Monaten erwartete Urteil des Bundesgerichtshofs, das die Aufhebung des Beschlusses vom 9. Juli 2015 und des Urteils vom Oberlandesgericht Düsseldorf beinhaltet, hat konkrete Auswirkungen auf die aktuelle forstpolitische Forschung. Vor diesem Hintergrund ist fraglich, ob die bis dato geschaffenen Strukturen der Betreuung im Privat- und Kommunalwald bestehen bleiben, wie sie weiterentwickelt werden und inwiefern forstliche Akteure den eingeschlagenen Weg fortsetzen. Die Betrachtung dieser Pfadabhängigkeiten ermöglicht neue Erkenntnisse zur Entwicklung der Kooperationen im Privat- und Kommunalwald.

Die Projektförderung durch die Eva Mayr-Stihl Stiftung ermöglicht diese politikwissenschaftliche Begleitforschung.

11.06.2018

Successful PhD defense

Today we are happy to congratulate Ophelia Soliku from our chair for successfully defending her PhD thesis. Ophelia's work focused on comanagement and conflict resolution in national parks in Ghana and Germany.

Her work was supervised by Prof. Dr. Ulrich Schraml from the FVA and Prof. Dr. Ilse Storch, chair of Wildlife Ecology and Management.

The thesis committee evaluating Ophelia's work additionally included the head of our chair Prof. Dr, Daniela Kleinschmit and the head of environmental governance, Prof. Dr. Heiner Schanz. 

Ophelia (middle) and her evaluation committee (Photo: L.Partzsch)

01.06.2018

DIABOLO Annual Project Meeting in Madrid

This year's DIABOLO Annual Project Meeting took place in Madrid, Spain between 28-29 May 2018. Tanya Baycheva-Merger represented our chair at the meeting.

The event brought together all DIABOLO consortium members at the INIA – Instituto Nacional de Investigación y Tecnología Agraria y Alimentaria. Members presented the results of the different project work packages and discussed the final steps for the project wrap-up next year.  

DIABOLO consortium members (Photo: Hernandez L. and Madrigal G.)

01.06.2018

Daniela Kleinschmit participates in Forest Europe workshop in

Brussels 

The head of our chair, Daniela Kleinschmit provided input to the FOREST EUROPE workshop "Enhancing the Long-term Competitiveness of the Forest Sector in a Green Economy: policies for forest-based bioeconomy in Europe" discussing the needs for international governance. 

The event was held in the Norway House, Brussels. Belgium. The event brought together a diverse group of stakeholders, ranging from policy makers, researchers and businesses from across the pan-European region to discuss issues of the forest sector competitiveness, and look for effective policy measures at international, national and regional levels.

                                                       Panel discussion during Forest Europe workshop (Photo:Ambrusova L.)

02.05.2018

The planet has a fever! Polycentric Climate Governance after Paris?

Early career Researchers from the INOGOV ECIN network, together with other researchers, students and other stakeholders convened a workshop on “Polycentric Climate Governance after Paris: Expectations, Challenges and Pathways” from 12-14 April in Freiburg, Germany. A team from the University of Freiburg and the Technical University of Darmstadt organized the workshop, which had attracted funding from the Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies. The program featured a series keynotes by Jonas Schönefeld, Professor Frank Biermann, Professor Philipp Pattberg and Dr Sabine Reinecke. One of the highlights of the evening was a short skit from the Freiburg Scientific Theatre. The public event concluded with the presentation of the three best photos submitted to the “Prima Klima Freiburg” competition, an event sponsored by the Sustainability Center Freiburg. 

During the following days, the workshop participants presented scientific paper drafts and received feedback from peers and renowned professors from the field of climate and sustainability governance. The workshop was characterized by its interactive formats like 'Walk and Talk' and a 'World Café'. Many discussions asked to what extent polycentric governance is a helpful concept to study efforts to contain or deal with climate change. Outputs include a new ResearchGate group, and new ideas for future publications and workshops.

Read more about the event here

Researchers from the INOGOV ECIN network

23.04.2018

Successful 2nd International Forest Policy Meeting 

A hundred participants from 20 countries participated in the Second International Forest Policy Meeting held in Wageningen, The Netherlands, between the 11 to 13 April 2018. The even brought together social scientists from different fields of expertise related to European and international forest policy. Several members of our chair participated at the event and held presentations: Daniela Kleinschmit, Andy Selter, Ida Wallin, Alex Giurca, Eulalia Baulenas and Matthias Sonnhoff. We are looking forward to the next meeting which will be held in Copenhagen in 2020. 

Participants of the 2nd IFPM (Photo: Keen-Mun P.)

21.03.2018

Public Event: Polycentric Climate Governance after Paris:Expectations,

Challenges and Pathways 

When?

12. April 2018, 17 o'clock

Where?

Hörsaal Anatomie (Albertstr. 19, Institutsviertel, Freiburg)

Do you know what polycentric climate governance means? 

Download the flyer

19.03.2018

The PerForm project receives funding from EFI's Network Fund

initiative 

A consortium of eight research institutes has received funding for networking activities "Perceiving the Forest-based Sector in the Bioeconomy" (PerForm). The Group starts its activity in april 2018 and aims to better understand regional disparities of national bioeconomy policies and the perceptions of a forest-based bioeconomy. The network will provide the opportunity to coordinate research endeavours, produce replicable studies and comparative results (e.g. similar research design) in order to compare the level of acceptance and integration of the forest-based sector into national bioeconomy policies and the perception and acceptance of forest stakeholders and urban consumers of a forest-based bioeconomy.The main outcomes of this cooperation network are: scientific publications, an online information platform as well as an e-learning course about the forest-based bioeconomy. The project is coordinated by the head of our chair, Daniela Kleinschmit. Consortium partners include: University of Helsinki (Finland), Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences (Austria), National Research Institute of Science and Technology for Environment and Agriculture (France), University of Padova (Italy), Technical University in Zvolen (Slovakia).

Find out more here

                                                                         View our short Explainer video 

23.02.2018

Deforestation is a wicked problem    

Daniela Kleinschmit participated as one of the panelists in the session on the “Role of Science and Research” at the international conference in “Working across Sectors to Halt Deforestation and Increase Forest Area – from Aspiration to Action”  organized by FAO and CPF held in Rome from 20th-22nd  of February  2018. She described deforestation as a "wicked problem" deserving comprehensive knowledge but due to its character providing a challenge for research. Daniela Kleinschmit asks for orchestrating different forms of knowledge in the already existing global network governance.

                                             Panel discussion on 'Role of science and research' in halting deforestation (Photo: A. Buck)

19.02.2018

Improving Communication and Exchange of Forest Information for

Sustainable Forestry and Forest-related Policies in Europe 

The EU H2020 funded project DIABOLO organizes a series of European dialogue groups workshops. These are a timely workshops to discuss the challenges facing the European forestry sector in relation to the demand, provision and exchange of information for sustainable forestry and forest-related policies. Our chair, together with the Austrian Research Centre for Forests (BFW) and the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU) organized the latest workshop, which was held between the 13th and 15th of February at the European Forestry House in Brussels. The workshop is kindly supported by the Confederation of European Forest Owners (CEPF) and the European State Forest Association (EUSTAFOR). 

The output of the workshop will be of interest to established National Forest Inventories and to countries embarking on NFI for the first time. The outcomes are expected to contribute to relevant key actions of the new EU Forest Strategy, ongoing discussions for a Forest Information System for Europe (FISE), and other European forest relevant monitoring and reporting processes (e.g., FOREST EUROPE SFM reporting, Natura 2000 monitoring, EU climate and bioenergy targets and LULUCF accounting). 

                                                            DIABOLO worshop in progress (Photo: T. Baycheva-Merger)

29.01.2018

Wie kampagnenfähig sind eigentlich Forst- und Holzwirtschaft? 

Kommunikation in und mit der Gesellschaft, ist ein Thema, dass den Forst- und Holzsektor seit langem umtreibt. Daher stand die „Kampagnenfähigkeit“  im Zentrum des 38. Freiburger Winterkolloquium Forst und Holz 2018 . Im Rahmen des Kolloquiums wurde das Thema anhand von Beiträgen ausgewiesener Expertinnen und Experten aus Theorie und Praxis, aus dem Sektor und über den Sektor hinaus beleuchtet. Damit wurden neue Einsichten ermöglicht und eine informierte Diskussionen initiiert.  

Die Professur für Forst- und Umweltpolitik hat die Veranstaltung gemeinsam mit vier weiteren Professuren (Forstökonomie und Forstplanung, Environmental Governance, Forstliche Biomaterialien und Forstliche Verfahrenstechnik) der Fakultät für Umwelt und Natürliche Ressourcen, organisiert und durchgeführt. 

Wir danken allen Redner*innen und Teilnehmer*innen für die interessanten Diskussionen und freuen uns aufs nächstes Jahr.

2017

20.11.2017

Researchers from our chair participate in international Bioeconomy

study