abril 29, 2010
Timber Trade Federation – Welcome
Our Members
TTF members span the wood and wood products supply chain. They are committed to sourcing their timber from legal and sustainable sources. If you want a product you know does the job and comes with low environmental risk, use our product find
COST – European Co-operation in the Field of Scientific and Technical Research
COST
European Co-operation in the Field of Scientific and Technical Research
COST is a framework for scientific and technical cooperation, allowing the co-ordination of national research on a European level. COST Actions consist of basic and precompetitive research as well as activities of public utility.
The goal of COST is to ensure that Europe holds a strong position in the field of scientific and technical research for peaceful purposes, by increasing European co-operation and interaction in this field.
COST has developed into one of the largest frameworks for research co-operation in Europe and is a valuable mechanism co-ordinating national research activities at European level. Today its nearly 200 Actions involve some 40 000 participating scientists from 32 European member countries and from nearly 50 participating institutions from additional 14 different countries. These networks represent a value of more than 2 Billion €.
vía COST – European Co-operation in the Field of Scientific and Technical Research.
Forest Ecology and Management Research Group
Global change (including climate change and land use change) is a serious threat to the stability of forests. We are investigating combined strategies of mitigation and adaptation, based on experimental and modeling studies of ecosystem processes. Innovative is the study of ecosystem thermodynamics with the use of thermal indicators for the follow-up of forest microclimate in periods of drought stress and for the evaluation of human land use impact. Evapotranspiration is a key process in this, which we study on different scale levels from leaf over stand to catchment and global. An important forest function is carbon sequestration in biomass, soil and wood products. Increasing the carbon sink in soils is often improving its erosion resistance and other environmental benefits
Scientific Facts on Forests & Energy
Introduction – What role can forestry and agriculture play in energy production?
See also our Forest ‘s Digest While the global demand for energy is soaring, the sources from which energy is derived are changing. This change is induced primarily by concerns over high fossil fuel prices, greenhouse gas emissions and fossil fuel import dependence.
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