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Women in rural areas

27. Januar 2025

Women are particularly underrepresented where the greatest levers for change lie: in leadership positions, in statistics, and in the public. This imbalance is even more pronounced in rural areas compared to cities. The Thünen-Institute examines the situation of women in rural regions in a thematic focus and provides well-founded data and background information.

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Article on recreational fishing is Editor's Choice

The renowned ICES Journal of Marine Science has declared an article on recreational fishing as particularly recommendable. Key contributors: several researchers from the Thünen Institute of Baltic Sea Fisheries.

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 Birgit Kleinschmit
Prof. Dr. Birgit Kleinschmit takes office as new Thünen President

With the professor from Braunschweig, a forest scientist with proven expertise in Earth observation is taking over the leadership of the Federal Research Institute for Rural Areas, Forests and Fisheries.

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High greenhouse gas emissions from land use

Greenhouse gas emissions in Germany declined in 2023. However, new data show that emissions from the land use, land use change and forestry (LULUCF) sector are higher than previously assumed.

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The Thünen Institute.

Research and policy advice on rural areas, agriculture, forests and fisheries.

As a research institute in the portfolio of the Federal Ministry of Food and Agriculture (BMEL), we work at the interface of science, politics and society.

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Employees, 612 of them scientists

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Institutes conduct research in the fields of rural areas, agriculture, forestry and fisheries

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Lectures in 2023

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New publications

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    Börner G, Frelat R, Akimova A, van Damme C, Peck M, Moyano M (2025) Autumn and winter plankton composition and size structure in the North Sea. Mar Ecol Progr Ser 753:1-18, DOI:10.3354/meps14767

    https://literatur.thuenen.de/digbib_extern/dn069522.pdf

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    Bauhus J, Dieter M, Meyer P, Knoke T, Endres E, Farwig N, Weber-Blaschke G, Lang F, Kleinschmit B, Hafner A, Kätzel R, Lindner M, Müller J, Schraml U, Seeling U (2025) Einordnung wichtiger Ergebnisse der Bundeswaldinventur 2022 in Bezug auf waldpolitische Handlungsfelder : Stellungnahme des Wissenschaftlichen Beirates für Waldpolitik, Dezember 2024. Berlin: Wissenschaftlicher Beirat für Waldpolitik beim BMEL, 30 p

    https://literatur.thuenen.de/digbib_extern/dn069519.pdf

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    Heimann T, Wähling L-S, Honkomp T, Delzeit R, Pirrone A, Schier F, Weimar H (2025) Expert projections on the development and application of bioenergy with carbon capture and storage technologies. Environ Res Lett 20(2):024059, DOI:10.1088/1748-9326/ada16f

    https://literatur.thuenen.de/digbib_extern/dn069518.pdf

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    Carus M, Porc O, vom Berg C, Kempen M, Schier F, Tandetzki J (2025) Is there enough biomass to defossilise the chemicals and derived materials sector by 2050? Hürth: nova-Institut GmbH, 38 p

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    Axen C, Cooper A, Paley R, Bao M, Bignell J, Carnegie R, Cheslett D, Cipriani P, Declercq A, Eriksson-Kallio AM, Gagné N, Garseth A-H, Giulietti L, Grade A, Haenen O, Kristmundsson Á, Levsen A, Madsen L, Mortensen S, Scharsack JP, et al (2025) Working Group on Pathology and Diseases of Marine Organisms (WGPDMO; outputs from 2024 meeting). Copenhagen: ICES, 27 p, ICES Sci Rep 7(17), DOI:10.17895/ices.pub.28343924

    https://literatur.thuenen.de/digbib_extern/dn069516.pdf

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