Themes
EFI addresses research issues of pan-European interest. In its research strategy EFI has defined the following research directions:
1. Forests for multiple needs
- Sustainability Impact Assessment
- Decision-support tools and predictive models for timber and non-timber products and services
- Ecosystem services (biodiversity, forests and water)
- Multi-objective forest management
- Supply, demand and value chains of timber and other forest products and services
- Forests and landscape
2. Forests, climate and energy
- Impacts of and adaptation to climate change
- Bioenergy potentials, harvested wood products
- Policy instruments for governing issues related to forests, climate and energy
- Risk assessment
- Forest fires
- Other (a)biotic disturbances
3. Forest sector governance
- Competitiveness of the forest sector
- Mobilising private forestry
- Combatting illegal logging
- Setting timber procurement policies
- National forest policies
- Science-policy interface
- Good governance and policy development
4. Future of Forests and Research
- State of the art and capacities
- Foresight studies
- Emerging policy needs
- Capacity building