Forest research and education: the status quo

Forest@

关键词: Climate change;    Natural hazards;    Forest Management;    Research;    Education;    University;   

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来源: DOAJ

【 摘 要 】

Natural hazards and climatic extreme events cause serious damages to human populations all around the globe. Such events are supposed to increase in the future, as a result of climatic changes mainly induced by increasing carbon dioxide concentrations. Foresters are needed to cope with such natural hazards, to manage forest ecosystems in a sustainable way, in order to counteract future catastrophic events and climatic changes. Foresters have a sound interdisciplinary preparation in several different biological and geophysical fields and, thus, unique professional skills to manage forest ecosystems as a whole. However, recently a worrying decline of interest of the Academia in forest research has been recorded worldwide. This journal Forest@ aims at showing how important forest-related education and research are for a sustainable management of the Earth.

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