eco2eco

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Eco2Eco aims to stimulate the wood market through the market-oriented collaboration of forest owners and their organisations, the business world, knowledge institutions and the government. The initiators want to use innovation to increase efficiency in wood production and marketing. In the various partners' woodlands, which cover some 270,000 hectares, innovative management methods and techniques aimed at sustainable wood production and exploitation will be developed on 3,000 hectares. The German-developed qualification and dimensioning (QD) forest management method, for example, is being introduced into the border region, which is investigating how fir trees react to pruning or exemption and whether a viable alternative can be offered for the chemical treatment of exotics. The acquired knowledge is distributed so that it can also be successfully applied by other forest owners and managers in the rest of Flanders and the Netherlands. Eco2Eco is short for Economy to Ecology – Ecology to Economy: economy and ecology hand-in-hand within forestry as well. Forests provide various ecosystem services and the production of wood as a renewable commodity is an important aspect. The project fits in with the Europa 2020 strategy, which promotes the efficient use of resources.

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