Andreas Schulte (forest scientist)

Andreas Schulte (born December 18, 1958 in Hamm ) is a German forest scientist .

He is known for the cluster studies on the economic importance of forestry and the timber industry, which he conducted under his leadership .

Since October 2003 he has held the chair for forest ecology, forestry and wood management at the Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster and at the same time managing partner of the start-up Wald-Consult Ltd., founded in 2004, which has been under a new legal form since January 1, 2019 of Brexit will be continued as SilvaVest GmbH based in Münster. From its founding in 2003 to the relocation of the headquarters to Canada in 2017, he was also chairman of the board of the International Institute for Forests and Wood, which is an affiliated institute at the University of Münster u. a. Carried out research projects on behalf of various German ministries and the EU.

Life

Andreas Schulte studied forest sciences at the Georg-August University in Göttingen . From 1985 to 1988 he worked as a research assistant working at Göttingen Forest Ecosystems Research and received his doctorate in 1988 at Bernhard Ulrich with the soil science thesis adsorption of heavy metals in representative soils of Israel and northwest Germany , depending on the specific surface area of Doctor of Forest Sciences (Dr. forest.) .

Schulte then went to Bolivia , where he worked from 1988 to 1992 as a development worker for the German Development Service (DED) in the province of Ayopaya and then for the Society for Technical Cooperation (GTZ) as a lecturer in forest ecology at the Universidad Mayor de San Simón taught in Cochabamba . From 1993 to 1996 he was the project manager of the German- Indonesian forest project “Development of the Forestry and Wood Management Faculty at Mulawarman University ” for GTZ . He then returned to Europe and completed his habilitation in 1996 with heavy metals in forest ecosystems at the University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences Vienna . He received a professorship for forest ecology in the landscape architecture department at the University of Paderborn , which he held from 1996 to 2003.

In August 2003 he accepted the call to the newly created chair for forest ecology, forestry and wood management at the Institute for Landscape Ecology at the Westphalian Wilhelms University in Münster . Associated with the C4 professorship is the office of chairman of the board of the International Institute for Forest and Wood NRW eV at the Westphalian Wilhelms University, which Schulte held as a founding member of the association until the association's headquarters were relocated to Canada in 2017.

Since 2001 Schulte has also been a board member of the North Rhine-Westphalia regional association of the German Forest Protection Association .

Schulte is the author and editor of several book publications on forest ecology, forestry and wood management topics and publishes regularly in various national and international forestry and forest science journals.

Services

In addition to his pedological and forest ecological investigations, which in the 1980s and 1990s were still dominated by the debate about the so-called " forest dieback ", Andreas Schulte also dealt early on with questions of world forestry and its future development in the face of climate change . Together with Klaus Böswald and Rainer Joosten, he published the book Weltforstwirtschaft nach Kyoto . Forest and wood as carbon stores and regenerative energy sources (2001).

However, his work in North Rhine-Westphalia made him known to a broader public , initially in the comprehensive two-volume state monograph Forest in North Rhine-Westphalia , which appeared in 2003. This emerged from a state project that ran from 1999 to 2001. The aim was to create a follow-up work based on current research results for the forest monograph Forest and Forestry in North Rhine-Westphalia published by Herbert Hesmer in 1958 . It was implemented under Schultes' direction by the University of Paderborn in cooperation with the state association of North Rhine-Westphalia of the German Forest Protection Association. More than 70 authors from science and politics, forest and hunting administration, forestry, nature conservation and environmental associations as well as the wood industry contributed to the interdisciplinary book project.

The cluster studies on the forestry and timber industry , which were developed under Schultes' direction, caused a nationwide sensation, which resulted in considerably greater labor market and economic importance for this cluster than has always been assumed to date.

For the federal state of North Rhine-Westphalia, the then red-green state government commissioned a research team headed by Andreas Schulte with the development of a basic structure and market analysis of forestry and the wood-consuming industry , known for short as the cluster study Forst & Holz NRW . Almost 1 million euros were made available for this. The results were published in 2003. According to this, the forest and wood cluster in North Rhine-Westphalia had a turnover of more than 36 billion euros in 2001. In addition, around 260,000 employees subject to social insurance were employed in the industry. The study thus showed the very considerable importance of the forestry and wood industry in terms of labor market policy and the economy in the industrial state of North Rhine-Westphalia. Due to the particular ecological and economic importance of the Forest & Wood Cluster in North Rhine-Westphalia, the state government then decided to set up a Forest & Wood Competence Center at the University of Münster.

In 2005, the Forest Center in Münster also presented the Forest and Wood Germany 2005 cluster study as the first phase of the Forest and Wood Industry Cluster Study for the Federal Republic of Germany , which ran until 2007 under Schulte's direction . Based on the corresponding definition of the European Union, the German forestry and wood industry comprises around 2 million forest owners, around 185,000 companies, more than 1.3 million employees and a turnover of around 181 billion euros. The forest and wood cluster therefore has more employees and a higher turnover than in many economic sectors that are commonly considered to be important, such as mechanical engineering , electrical industry or chemical industry . It is therefore of much greater economic and labor market political importance than previously assumed by its own industry.

In addition, Andreas Schulte is researching the carbon balance of forest ecosystems and is looking for ways to produce and mobilize wood even more strongly in its capacity as a regenerative energy carrier, for example through increased reforestation or energy forests, while maintaining the forest sustainability principle .

Schulte was responsible for coordinating several research projects funded by the European Union. a. the SecureChain project - Sustainable Bioenergy Chains (Grant Agreement 646457 of the European Commission, December 2014) with 11 project partners from 8 EU countries.

Currently, the focus of Schulte's activities as managing partner of SilvaVest GmbH, based in Münster, is on providing scientific advice to institutional and private investors on all aspects of investments in sustainable land use.

Fonts

• Adsorption of heavy metals in representative soils of Israel and north-west Germany depending on the specific surface , dissertation, University of Göttingen 1988 (in print as part of the series of reports of the research center for forest ecosystems , series A, volume 46, Göttingen 1988)
• Heavy metals in forest ecosystems , habilitation thesis, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna 1995
• as editor together with Dieter Schöne: Dipterocarp Forest Ecosystems. Towards Sustainable Management , World Scientific, Singapore and River Edge (NJ) 1996 ( ISBN 9-81022729-9 )
• as editor together with Daddy Ruhiyat: Soils of Tropical Forest Ecosystems. Characteristics, Ecology and Management , Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, Singapore, Tokyo, New York, Barcelona, ​​Budapest, Hong Kong, London, Milan, Paris and Santa Clara 1998 ( ISBN 3-540-63607-2 )
• as co-author and editor together with Klaus Böswald and Rainer Joosten: Weltforstwirtschaft nach Kyoto. Forest and wood as carbon stores and renewable energy sources , series of reports from the wood and forestry industry , Shaker, Aachen 2001 ( ISBN 3-8265-8641-7 )
• Rainforestation Farming. Option for Rural Development and Biodiversity Conservation in the Humid Tropics of Southeast Asia. A Review of Major Issues on Community Based Rehabilitation Silviculture and Guide to Recommended Native Tree Species for the Visayas / Philippines , Series Reports from Wood and Forestry , Shaker, Aachen 2002
• as editor and co-author: Wald in Nordrhein-Westfalen , 2 volumes, Aschendorff, Münster 2003 ( ISBN 3-402-06481-2 )

Web links

• Literature by and about Andreas Schulte in the catalog of the German National Library
• Short biography and list of publications at the International Institute for Forests and Wood NRW at the Westphalian Wilhelms University of Münster
• Website of the SilvaVest GmbH

Individual evidence

1. ↑ NN: North Rhine-Westphalia takes stock of forest and wood. Cluster study reveals unexpected economic size of the forest and wood industry , data from SDW NRW; Retrieved November 28, 2010
2. ↑ private banking magazin: The competition for good forest properties is increasing , interview by Tobias Bürger from April 16, 2019
3. ↑ CV of Prof. Dr. Andreas Schulte on his own website (last accessed on June 26, 2020)
4. ↑ ^{a b} Short biography ( memento of the original from August 15, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. at the International Institute for Forests and Wood NRW  
5. ^ Anonymus: Competence center for forest, forestry and timber industry at the University of Münster . In: AFZ / DerWald , 58th year, issue 24/2003, p. 1273, ISSN  1430-2713
6. ↑ CV of Prof. Dr. Andreas Schulte on his own website (last accessed on June 26, 2020)
7. ↑ NN: North Rhine-Westphalia takes stock of forest and wood. Cluster study reveals unexpected economic size of the forest and wood industry , data from SDW NRW; Retrieved November 28, 2010
8. ↑ Information on the state monograph “Forest in North Rhine-Westphalia” ( memento of the original from 23 August 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. ; Retrieved November 28, 2010  
9. ↑ NN: Wood industry in Germany larger than generally assumed. Have statistical errors cost Germany millions of EU funding? . In: ParkettMagazin 01/05, quoted from www.raumeinrichtungen.de
10. ↑ cf. Andreas Schulte: North Rhine-Westphalia takes stock of forest and wood. Cluster study reveals unexpected economic size of the forest and wood industry , summary at the Schutzgemeinschaft Deutscher Wald in North Rhine-Westphalia; Retrieved December 11, 2010
11. ↑ cf. Results ( Memento of the original from August 23, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. the cluster study forestry and wood industry Federal Republic of Germany of the International Institute for Forests and Wood NRW; Retrieved December 11, 2010 
12. ↑ Website of the Secure Chain project (last accessed on June 26, 2020)
13. ↑ A forest investment pays off here , WELT.DE Interview with Prof. Andreas Schulte from Lilly Extra and Julia Fiedler from May 18, 2020; last accessed on June 26, 2020