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Jul 22, 2019
Source: Tropical Forestry Blog

Successful “Environmental Non-Migration” Conference at TU Dresden

“Staying or Migrating – What keeps people in their home areas despite environmental threats?” This was the guiding question of the first international conference “Environmental Non-migration: Framework, Methods and Cases”. It took place on 19-21 June 2019 at the TU...
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Jul 21, 2019
Source: Tropical Forestry Blog

Natural Resources and Human Security – Participation in an Interdisci­plinary Workshop

An international workshop on hosted by the Peace Academy Rhineland-Palatinate took place on 18 and 19 July in Landau at the University of Koblenz-Landau. Jude Kimengsi and Maxi Domke, both Postdocs, participated and presented on behalf of the Chair of...
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Jul 16, 2019
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Bike excursion adventure vol. 2 – Wood chip gasifier for tropical countries?

Our master students participated in a bike excursion on July 1st – 6th 2019 as part of the module “Organization and Management Systems”. Along a track of about 220 km by the Neiße river at the border between Germany and...
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Jul 16, 2019
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Bike excursion adventure vol.1 – How to manage a municipal forest?

Our master students participated in a bike excursion on July 1st – 6th 2019 as part of the module “Organization and Management Systems”. Along a track of about 220 km by the Neiße river at the border between Germany and...
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Jul 12, 2019
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Learning by climbing – Tropical Forestry students elaborated organization­al aspects of a National Park in-situ

Nature as classroom: only a 30 min. train trip from Dresden, the National Park Sächsische Schweiz (Saxony Switzerland Website) offers a unique and fantastic landscape which attracts tourists from all over the world. Guided by the Park Ranger Jens Posthoff,...
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Jul 12, 2019
Source: Tropical Forestry Blog

Investigation smallholder farmers’ silvicultural practices and markets through MSc research in Tanzania

I am Japhet Noah Mwambusi, MSc student of the Tropical Forestry Course. I just returned from my fieldwork in my home country Tanzania. My research focuses on “Silvicultural Treatments of Smallholder and their Relation to the timber market in Mufindi...
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