Institut für Strategien und Folgenabschätzung
The climate change-related increase in the vulnerability of forests to biotic and abiotic damage is challenging forest management. However, there is currently no uniform nationwide recording of forest damage. The overall aim of NEWsWm is to record forest damage and its causes from the forest protection reporting systems of all federal states in a national forest protection database. Forest threats of national importance can thus be recorded promptly in order to make both currently reported information and historical trends in forest damage available to the Federal Ministry of Food and Agriculture (BMEL) and the forestry services of the federal states. As part of nationwide support for risk and crisis management, action and reaction can be taken as needed. The NEWsWm project aims to pursue the following sub-goals: 1. Development and implementation of a nationwide database on the forest protection situation in Germany for the most important damage factors based on the reporting systems of the federal states, 2. Optimization of the data flow between the forest protection reporting systems of the federal states and the nationwide forest protection reporting database, e.g. through interfaces including validation and quality control of the forest protection reporting data, 3. Development and implementation of a web application for data analysis and data visualization based on the nationwide database, to make the nationwide data available to the federal states (optionally for federal states that do not use their own reporting system, can also be used for data entry), 4. Provision of statistics and maps on the forest protection situation in Germany for selected target values of forest damage reports to the BMEL and, if necessary, to other decision-makers in consultation with the federal states.
Federal Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Regional Identity
