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- Introduction to forest-based bioeconomy
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Development of global forest policies and governance
Forests and other biomass resources
- Introduction to biomass resources
- Trees, forest and forest ecosystems
- Global forest resources
- Structure and properties of wood and woody biomass
- Forest inventory and planning
- Management of forest ecosystems
- Forest production in ecological context
- Regeneration through natural seeding
- Regeneration through planting
- Genetic improvement of trees for forest plantations
- Management of growing and developing forest over time
- Spacing and thinning affecting availability of resources
- Thinning regimes and rules
- Management of sequestrate carbon and adaptation to climate change
- Management for improving timber quality
- Management of nutrient resources and site fertility
- Management of abiotic risks
- Management of biotic risks
- Characteristics of pest outbreaks
- Resistance mechanism of trees against herbivores and pathogens
- Induced defence
- Models explaining variation in chemical defence between plants
- Biological control in pest management
- Effects of forest management and structure on forest pests
- Climate change and forest damaged related to pests and herbivory
- Management of forests for sequetration carbon in carbon mitigating warming
- Carbon stocks in trees and soil
- Carbon balance in managed forests
- Carbon retentation in forest ecosystems and forest-based prodcution
- *Mitigating radiative forcing in forestry and forest-based production
- *Mitigating radiative forcing in management
- * Radiative forcing related to carbon in ecosystem
- * Impacts of replacing fossil fuels and fossil materials on radiative forcing
- Management for adaptation to climate change
- Timber procurement
- Timber assortments
- Harvest and timber transport
- Harvesting woody biomass for energy
- Opening forest areas for logging by consturcting roads
- Storing timber
- Organising and planning harvesting operations
- Harvesting in industrial plantations
- Damage to timber
- Environmental impacts of timber harvesting
- Timber trade
- Timber measurement
- Wood markets and cost of wood
- Global forest related policies and governance
Authors & references
Author:
Olli Saastamoinen
References:
- Alcock, F. 2005. Conflicts and Coalitions Within and Across the ENGO Community. Paper presented at the 2005 Berlin Conference on the Human Dimensions on Global Environmental Change: International Organisations and Global Environmental Governance. Belin, Germany. December 2, 2005.
- Unasylva. 1995. The dawn of FAO’s work in forestry and early achievements. An interview with René Fontaine, a founder member of the FAO Division of Forestry and Forest Products. Unasylva 223 (57): 3-9.
- Westoby, J.C. 1962. The Role of Forest Industries in the Attack on Economic Underdevelopment. The State of Agriculture. FAO, Rome.
- Westoby, J. 1989. Introduction to World Forestry, Basil Blackwell Ltd. Oxford. 229 p.
- Westoby, J. C. 1975. Making trees serve people. Commonwealth Forestry Review 54(3, 4): 206-215.
- Kneeland, D. 1995. FAO Forestry at 60. Unasylva 223 (57): 3-9.
- United Nations. 1992. Report of the United Nations conference on environment and development (Rio de Janeiro, 3-14 June 1992). Annex iii non-legally binding authoritative statement of principles for a global consensus on the management, conservation and sustainable development of all types of forests.
- FAO. Strategic framework for forests and climate change. Rome. 44 p.
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