Helga Pülzl
Helga Pülzl is responsible for the Policy Support Facility and its Trust Fund. She has 25 years of experience researching European and international forest governance and policy change. She is also a Deputy Coordinator of the IUFRO working party 9.05.01 on ‘Bioeconomy policy in North and South perspectives’. Helga holds a PhD and master’s degree in political science from the University of Vienna (Austria), and from 2025, she became an international fellow of the Royal Swedish Academy of Agriculture and Forestry (KSLA).
Key topics: European forest governance and change; international forest discourses, citizens' perceptions on forest ecosystem services; bioeconomy perceptions
Content by this person
3 x 3 x 2030: Nine priorities for implementing the EU’s Forest Strategy
A review of EU Forest Strategy implementation across 15 countries with nine proposed priorities to balance climate, biodiversity and economy.
- Inclusive governance
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
A review of forest management practices potentially suitable for carbon farming in European forests
To meet the European Union's climate neutrality targets by 2050, carbon farming (CF) has emerged as a key strategy to enhance carbon (C)…
European forest governance: Issues at stake and the way forward
A condensed and structured description and assessment of forest-focused and forest-related policies and of actor constellations at the European level.
- Inclusive governance
Forest bioeconomy - a new scope for sustainability indicators
Insights into the potential use of forest-based sector indicator sets in Europe.
- Sustainable economy
How to govern Europe’s forests for multiple Forest Ecosystem Services?
This Policy Brief sets out four policy pathways which can support our forests to provide the goods and services society demands.
- Forests and people
Integrated Fire Management – empowering action for a fire-resilient Europe
The mitigation of wildfire impacts in Europe necessitates moving beyond reactive suppression towards Integrated Fire Management.
- Resilient forests
Key questions on forests in the EU
This publication compiles key research findings in the form of 12 questions on forests in the EU and the benefits they provide to society.
- Resilient forests
Events this person spoke at
Navigating through the EU forest-related objectives
Our ThinkForest event presented key insights from the study on EU forest policy objectives and discussed opportunities for better policy coherence
10 December 2025, 17:00–18:30, CET
- Inclusive governance
