Exploring Europe’s share of verified legal and sustainable secondary tropical wood products import in 2019. Find out more by reading this report.
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Large timber availability after storms can lead to a drop in timber prices that can impact local markets. Find out more by reading this article.
Read MoreFULL ARTICLEThe situation of the timber market, after the Vaia storm, in north-eastern Italy
A custom-made repository to collect and systematize information on Forest Care Initiatives in Italy.
Read MoreREAD THE ARTICLEA Novel Research Framework Applied to the Italian Context
National Forest Funds (NFFs) are a significant source of funding for the forestry sector. In this paper, we analysed three NFF case studies (Costa Rica, Morocco, and Vietnam) in order to assess, with operational examples, if and to what extent NFFs already operate on Payments for Ecosystem Services (PES) or PES-like mechanisms.
Read MoreREAD THE ARTICLENational forest funds and Payments for Ecosystem Services in Costa Rica, Morocco and Vietnam.
The handbook, by ItaSIF with inputs coming from a working group, analyzes the crucial role of sustainable finance in view of achieving climate targets.
Read MoreThe “Sustainable climate investments” handbook analyzes the crucial role of sustainable finance in view of achieving climate targets, both in terms of integrating sustainability considerations into investment choices, and in financing mitigation and adaptation solutions. Within the handbook, Etifor developed chapter 5.1 related to agriculture and forests. The first part of the chapter
This review gives an overview of existing literature on the emerging topic of human wellbeing-forest. Read the whole abstract.
Read MoreREAD THE ARTICLEBridging Medical and Forest Research for Effective Forest-Based Initiatives
This study makes an exploratory analysis of the EU-funded LIFE sub-programme for the Environment and its priority area Environment and Resource Efficiency focused on the role of networks and in particular of intermediary organizations by using Social Network Analysis.
Read MoreREAD THE ARTICLEAn exploratory analysis of the LIFE sub-programme for the Environment by using Social Network Analysis
Download for free the publication “Deforestation Made in Italy”. A report in Italian dedicated to the responsibility of Italian companies and consumers in the deforestation of tropical countries.
Read MoreDOWNLOAD THE REPORT IN ITALIANThis volume presents a summary of the contributions to the workshop "Deforestation made in Italy" held in Padua on 10 December 2019. After framing the issue of deforestation and forest degradation, analyzing the main drivers and impacts, the document presents methodological approaches and preliminary results relating to the estimate of the
This briefing explores the challenge of raising the profile of social innovation in policy-making, because although social innovation may happen as a result of citizen action alone, its impact can be much enhanced by the design of supportive policies.
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This paper represents the first analysis of forest plantation investments on a comparative perspective in the context of Southwestern Europe. Our experts estimated and compared potential investment returns at aggregate level for some of the most important productive forest plantation species in the region, including hybrid poplar, eucalyptus and maritime pine.
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