Knowledge bank: Forests
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Wood use and size of living area in future housing crucial for climate change mitigation
Substituting concrete with wood in multi-family housing construction will benefit the climate as long as our living area does not increase. -
Summer - a High Risk Period for Forest Fires
Prolonged heat, very limited rainfall, and frequent lightning are all factors that increase the risk of forest fires. The summer of 2018 is a good example, when 7,000 fires destroyed well over 22,000 hectares (ha) of Swedish forests.
Research: Forests
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Forest, climate, diversity, people, coexistence, and solutions (SPARC)
A research project set to help stakeholders adapt forest related decisions to climate change without jeopardizing other important economic, societal, and environmental forest values. -
Decolonizing Land use Planning: Reimagining Sami-state relations in Sweden and Finland (RE-LAND)
This project seeks to understand what decolonization could entail for the everyday practice of land use planning in Sami lands.
Departments: Forests
Collaborative centers: Forests
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Trees for the future
2021 T4F started a new phase with a new research plan for the coming 5 years. The new plan includes some structural changes that open up completely new possibilities. T4F investigates which trees will be found in the forests in the future: