With this webinar, we want to reflect upon how we can support forest ecosystems to better cope with current and future climate change impacts. After introducing how forest resilience can be defined and operationalized, we will investigate the role of biodiversity in the forests, what potential trade-offs are, and what forest decision-makers and practitioners can do to increase forest ecosystems resilience.
Almost half (47.9 %) of Austria is covered by forests, which have been used by humans for thousands of years. For nearly half a century, the multifunctionality of forests is legally anchored in the Federal Forestry Act (1975) – reflecting both forests’ great value for human health, animals, and plants, and their important contribution to...
What were your ideas of the Network Integrate when it was first discussed in 2015/2016? Did you imagine the Network would become as prosperous and active as it is now? We have spoken one of the initiators of the network, Thomas Haussmann from the German Federal Ministry of Food and Agriculture, about the history of...
