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- Introduction to forest-based bioeconomy
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- Pulping and biorefining
- Energy and biofuels
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Financial analysis 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:
- Green, J.L. 1997. Federal income tax incentives for private in the United States. Unasylva 48(2).
- Luke Statistical Services. Natural Resources Institute Finland. https://stat.luke.fi/en/.
- Andersen, P. 1999. A note on alternative measures of real bond rates. BIS Working Papers 80, Nov. 1999. 39 p.
- Lausti, A. & Penttinen, M. 1998. The analysis of return and its components of nonindustrial private forest ownership by forestry board districts in Finland. Silva Fennica 32(1): 75–94.
- Callaghan D.W., Khanal P.N., Straka T.J. and Hagan D.L. 2019. Influence of Forestry Practices Cost on Financial Performance of Forestry Investments. Resources 2019, 8, 28; doi:10.3390/resources8010028.
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