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Resilience

Resilience refers to the ability of a system to bounce back from a disturbance or adapt to change. Relating to forests, it is how forest-related socio-ecological systems can respond to change in a manner that maintains critical interrelations (ecosystem functions/services/goods) within the systems.1 For Mediterranean forests, resilience is a term with many applications, particularly for climate, community and ecology.

The Role of Forests in Countering Climate Change

The Role of Forests in Countering Climate Change – Perspectives from North and South

The Embassy of Finland in Spain, together with the Ministry for the Ecological Transition and the Demographic Challenge of Spain, and the...

EFIMED’s Mercedes Caron selected to join the Global Young Academy

EFI is pleased to announce that Junior Researcher, Mercedes Caron, has been selected as a member of the Global Young Academy, an...

LIFE RESILIENT FORESTS: final project event invitation

The LIFE RESILIENT FORESTS project spanned for five years and aimed to improve the resilience of forests to climate change, enhancing resilience...

Urban forests as nature-based solutions knowledge exchange mechanism

The CLEARING HOUSE project has launched its second call for knowledge exchange. The global objective of the knowledge exchange mechanism is to...

EUSTAFOR calls on EU to promote global sustainable and multifunctional forestry

The FAO Global Forest Resources Assessment (FRA) 2020 estimated that 420 million ha of forest was deforested between 1990 and 2020, with...

International Day of Forests 2023: call for video translations

For this year's International Day of Forests (IDF), FAO Forestry has produced a 60-second video for the Day. It is available in...

Human impact on insect communities in a typical Mediterranean forest

A new article about Schinias Pinus pinea forest near Athens in Greece, explains how this degraded biotope has been impacted by human...

IUFRO World Congress 2024: Call for Abstracts

The Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences and the City of Stockholm in close collaboration with the Nordic and Baltic partners, welcome delegates...

PEFC continues to lead forestry certification in Spain with growth in 2022

PEFC forest certification continues to grow in a strong and steady trend towards forest sustainability driven by all sectors and policy frameworks....
ash dieback

EUFORGEN Webinars: ash dieback and its impact on the species’ genetic diversity

Rising temperatures across Europe, extreme weather events, higher fire risk, or increased vulnerability to biotic disturbances such as pests and diseases are...

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EUSTAFOR calls on EU to promote global sustainable and multifunctional forestry

The FAO Global Forest Resources Assessment (FRA) 2020 estimated that 420 million ha of forest was deforested between 1990 and 2020, with...

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