Many of the trees we plant today will not be harvested for decades or at all where forest restoration seeks to recover carbon stocks, ecosystem services, and biodiversity. Yet across these decades the world will go through unprecedented global change. The decisions needed to ensure global wood security must be taken in the next few years to prevent major losses of timber, fuelwood, carbon stocks and biodiversity over the coming decades.
We provide knowledge and training to secure forest-based ecosystem services and conservation. We tackle some of the most pressing issues facing global wood security, from understanding and reducing the risks of wildfire and illegal harvest to timber and carbon stocks, to ensuring the sustainability of tropical forestry and conservation. Our core mission is to deliver major societal and environmental benefits through the Centre’s role in facilitating global research collaboration and translation into management and policy action.
We are a cross-disciplinary research centre led by the University of Cambridge in close collaboration with our academic, industry and policy partners. The Centre is led by Professor David Edwards.
We fulfil our mission through three core activities:
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International research collaboration.
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Post-graduate training through cross-Centre supervision and exchanges.
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Co-design of policy and management tools with end-users for improved global wood security.