Research Emphasis: Silviculture and Timber Industry

The dramatic reduction in national forest management, a dynamic concentration of the timber industry as well as the increased utilization of forest biomass for energy production have built the framework of the silviculture and timber industry in the past decade. In addition, high demands for forest cultivation and ownership compromise their establishment in the reduction of climate change.

Keywords such as “privatization”, “municipalization”, “process optimization” and “professionalization” represent the responses of the siviculture and timber industry to shifting requirements.

The University of Applied Forest Sciences in Rottenburg and its research partners therefore dedicate themselves to the following:

• Organizational questions (institutional and process optimization),
• Technical challenges (communication optimization via technical resources, GIS based landscape diagnostics and planning)
• Scientific demands (climate tolerance for forest species and natural habitat)

Additional commitments of the silviculture and timber industry (i.e. certification, carbon emission trading) are product development and (forest orientated) political topics.