S. Wolff

S. Wolff
Thünen Institute of Forestry · Sustainability Assessment

Ph.D. Environmental Geography
Ecosystem Services, Land System Change, Sustainable Forest Management

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Introduction
Field of Interest: Land Use Change; Ecosystem Services, Sustainable Forest Management, Environmental Governance; Methods: Spatial Analysis, Land Change Modelling, Scenario Analysis, Systematic Literature Review, Statistics

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Conserving and managing global natural capital requires an understanding of the complexity of flows of ecosystem services across geographic boundaries. Failing to understand and to incorporate these flows into national and international ecosystem assessments leads to incomplete and potentially skewed conclusions, impairing society’s ability to iden...
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Forest certification has become a strategic instrument for businesses, particularly for accessing sensitive environmental markets and within sustainability commitments. This trend is also visible in Spain, where PEFC (Program for the Endorsement of Forest Certification) certification has increased by 91% in the past five years. However, there is a...
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In the face of accelerating forest degradation and deforestation, forest certification emerged in the early 1990s as a voluntary and market-based mechanism to promote environmentally appropriate, socially beneficial, and economically viable management of the world’s forests. A key goal of forest certification is to reduce forest degradation and def...
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Integrated landscape management (ILM) has received increased interest to reconcile multiple conflicting demands on a landscape scale. ILM aims at addressing major interconnected global challenges, such as poverty, food security, deforestation, and climate change. A principal element of ILM is the consideration of multiple scales, harmonizing local-...
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Despite a growing number of national-scale ecosystem service (ES) assessments, few studies consider the impacts of ES use and consumption beyond national or regional boundaries. Interregional ES flows-ecosystem services "imported" from and "exported" to other countries-are rarely analyzed and their importance for global sustainability is little kno...

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Is anyone familiar of an Integrated Landscape Management Scenario study or the application of decision-support tools in ILM initiatives?

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