Global Terrestrial Ecosystems
IIASA’s Forestry Program (FOR) addresses these key challenges: management of global terrestrial ecosystems (including the forest sector) and interactions with other sectors in the context of global change: specifically climate change, deforestation, food security, land use competition, bioenergy and others; and how to enable terrestrial ecosystems to positively contribute to socioeconomic development. These objectives are addressed under broad Research Themes:

Global Terrestrial Ecosystems: research into the exchange of GHGs between terrestrial ecosystems and the atmosphere both globally and regionally, accounting for uncertainties. Options such as mitigation, adaptation, avoided deforestation and bioenergy are explored.

Emerging Economies & Governance : China, India, Brazil, Congo Basin, and the Koreas... bringing FOR research results into the sector’s policy and governance processes.

Research, News & Events
IIASA FOR , TIFAC, and the IIFM hosted a capacity building workshop on Ecological Modeling for forest researchers, in Bhopal, India, 28-31 Jan. A report entitled "Modelling in Forestry and Forest Management" will be available soon.

IIASA FOR announces the 3rd International Workshop on Uncertainty in Greenhouse Gas Inventories more

FOR in Nature News model predicts deforestation

An article in Science co-authored by P. Havlik and M. Obersteiner, explains that the accounting rules used in the Kyoto Protocol treat all bioenergy as carbon neutral, regardless of the source of the biomass, which may cause large differences in net emissions. more