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- Introduction to forest-based bioeconomy
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- Pulping and biorefining
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Economics of forest management and wood production
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
Authors:
Lauri Valsta and Rainer Häggblom
References:
- Wong, J., Thornberg, K. and Baker, N. 2007. Resource assessment of non-wood forest products. Non-wood forest products 13. FAO. Rome. [http://www.fao.org/docrep/004/Y1457e/Y1457e00.HTM].
- Chamberlain, J.L., Bush, R.L., Hammett, A.L. and Araman, P.A. 2002. Managing for nontimber products. Journal of Forestry 2002 (1/2): 8-14.
- Cocksedge, W. 2006. Incorporating Non-Timber Forest Products into Sustainable Forest Management – An Overview for Forest Managers. Royal Roads University. 232 p.
- Moog, M. and Borchert, H. 2001. Increasing rotation periods during a time of decreasing profitability of forestry – a paradox? Forest Policy and Economics 2: 101-116.
- Jirgensone, A. 2008. Average costs of forest regeneration in Latvia constituted LVL 88 to 105 per ha. The Baltic Course. [http://www.baltic-course.com/eng/analytics/?doc=3811].
- Uotila, E. 2005. Yksityismetsätalouden kannattavuus – Maatilatalouden yritys- ja tulotilastot 2001 ja 2002 sekä alueittaiset katelaskelmat vuosille 2002 ja 2003. Metsätilastotiedote 756, Metsäntutkimuslaitos. 18 p.
- Green, J.L. 1997. Federal income tax incentives for private in the United States. Unasylva 48(2).
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