Group of Forest Management and Development

The research group is specialized in the «human-forest» interface in subtropical and tropical regions. This involves questions regarding conservation and sustainable management of forest resources in transition and developing countries. The North-South issues are also an important element of our work. In particular research has been carried out in the dry forests in Madagascar and West Africa as well as in the walnut-fruit-forests in Kyrgyzstan.

The main activities of the group are the supervision of research projects (PhD, Master thesis and Term papers), education in international forestry, as well as consultancy for different organizations in development cooperation. Moreover, our group organizes traineeship in development cooperation for ETH students. The library of the group contains books, articles and working papers specialized in the field of "forestry and development". It is open for interested people. The major part of the library is accessible via the library catalog NEBIS.

The FORDEV is part of the Professorship of Ecosystem Management supervised by Prof. Dr. J. Ghazoul.