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Chair for Tropical and International Forestry Tharandt

The Chair of Tropical and International Forestry Tharandt is one of the first academic institutions in Europe focusing on forestry in the Global South. It is part of the Institute of International Forestry and Forest Products, integrated into the faculty of Forestry, Geo and Hydrosciences at the TU Dresden and is located in Tharandt in Cotta-Bau. From the beginning, the emphasis has been on sustainable forest management. However, objectives and contexts of the chair have changed. The institute transitioned through a development from top-down colonial and technically orientated forestry towards a participatory management of the forest.

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History

Approaches

References

See also

= History = 1811 - Heinrich Cotta opens the private forestry education establishment at Tharandt. Together with Johann Adam Reum he founded the Tharandt Forest Botanical Garden.

1816 - The Institute is awarded the status “Royal Saxon Academy of Forestry”.

1933- Prof. Dr. Franz Heske and Prof. Dr. Reinhard Hugersdorff open the Institute of Foreign and Colonial Forestry Tharandt.

1961- The first group of students from a tropical country (Vietnam) is registered.

1963 - The Institute of Tropical and Subtropical Forestry is established by. Prof. Dr. M. Löschau.

1993 - Prof. Dr. Jürgen Pretzsch continues the institute after the reunification of Germany and adopts the tropical forestry education to the Bologna system.

1995 - The first intake of students for the English MSc Program „Tropical Forestry and Management“ is registered.

2000 onwards- Numerous South-South cooperation projects lead to the consolidation of a global research and teaching network.

2006 - The MSc course Tropical Forestry joins the Erasmus Mundus Programme SUTROFOR, a consortium of five European universities.

2008 - The M.Sc. course is accredited by ASIIN and honoured with the “Quality label for the top ten international Master courses at German universities” by the Association for German Science Foundations (Stifterverband für die Deutsche Wissenschaft).

2010 - The joint Erasmus Mundus PhD program FONASO is offered at the Chair, consortium of seven European universities.

2012 & 2019 - The TU Dresden gains the status as one of eleven German Universities of Excellence that plays an important role in internationalization and supports the Chair.

2020 – Prof. Dr. Lukas Giessen gets appointed as Chair of Tropical and International Forestry. He complements the socio-economic orientation with socio-politics and governance perspectives, also beyond the tropics.

= Approaches =

Today, a vibrant multi-cultural group of research and teaching staff, doctoral candidates and administrative staff, creates an atmosphere of collegiality and openness and, thus, a motivating team spirit and room for individual development.

Throughout, the emphasis has been on sustainable forest management. However, the focus of the chair has evolved from top down colonial and technically orientated forestry, to participatory forest management, to analytical research on the socio-economic and socio-political aspects of international and tropical forest governance, including:

•     Socio-economic diagnoses/analysis

•     Forest based value chain analysis

•     Forest Landscape Restoration

•     Governance assessment

•     Socio-political studies

•     Power analyses

= References =

1.    https://tu-dresden.de/bu/umwelt

2.    https://tu-dresden.de/bu/umwelt/forst/inter/tropen/die-professur/geschichte

3.     https://tu-dresden.de/bu/umwelt/forst/inter/tropen

= See also =

Tharandt Forest

Heinrich Cotta

Royal Saxon Academy of Forestry

Forstbotanischer Garten Tharandt

Dresden University of Technology