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Forests provide multiple direct and indirect benefits to people and the planet
EFI explores how forests help improve physical, mental, and social health, foster social inclusion, and offer spaces for recreation, education, and cultural practices. We study how forests provide essential ecosystem services to rural and urban communities, and how we can support them to continue to do so.
FOREXT Fridays Webinar: Marteloscope
On 26 June, join us to discover how the Marteloscope tool helps forest advisors and owners make better management decisions.
26 June 2026, 13:00–14:00, CEST
- Forests and people
Perceived naturalness and wellbeing
The findings indicate that higher perceived naturalness is associated with higher psychological wellbeing.
- Forests and people
Everyday movement through nature linked to nighttime cardiac regulation
We provide evidence that active movement in nature may support nighttime cardiac regulation, which may be beneficial for health.
- Forests and people
Publications
Agricultural pesticide exposures in Ecuador and their spatial association with low birth weight
We applied spatial analyses to explore the distribution of low birth weight in Ecuador and its association with pesticide exposures for 2015 and 2016.
- Forests and people
A global analysis of key design factors for sustainable payment for ecosystem services schemes
This review intends to assist PES designers and policy and decision-makers in developing PES schemes better tailored to contemporary challenges and…
- Forests and people
Matching the supply and demand of forest ecosystem services in Europe
We aim to identify the main challenges in quantitatively mapping and modelling forest ecosystem services (FES) supply-demand mismatches.
- Forests and people
EFI Strategy 2040
Responding to accelerating global change, EFI positions forests at the heart of efforts to build resilient societies and a healthy planet.
- Resilient forests
News and blogs
De mémoire d’arbre: five centuries through the eyes of a tree
To celebrate World Book Day, Magda Bou Dagher Kharrat, Principal Scientist at EFIMED, recommends one of her recent favourite reads.
- Forests and people
EFI Strategy 2040 – Forests in a changing world
EFI has launched a major new strategy which will shape the work of the Institute over the next 15 years.
- Resilient forests
Projects on this theme
INTERCEDE
Incentivising future forest ecosystem services and incomes in Europe
- Sustainable economy
- Forests and people
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- Forests and people
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- Forests and people
Green4Care
Green4C is a three-year project innovating and promoting nature-based health and social care through university-business alliances.
- Forests and people
