The Bologna process – a challenge to innovation in forest policy and economics education and research

• Main Author: Schmithüsen, F.
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Український ордена "Знак Пошани" НДІ лісового господарства та агролісомеліорації ім. Г.М. Висоцького Держкомлісгоспу та НАН України 2008
• Online Access: http://dspace.nbuv.gov.ua/handle/123456789/16268

The Bologna process will thrust forestry and forestry education into the context of an evolving global economy as well as worldwide concerns about environmental protection and climate change. It stimulates the integration of forestry into the framework of sustainable land-use practices and the combination of forest management experience with new scientific knowledge and research methodology. Forest professionals need a comprehensive educational background if they are to tackle rapidly changing social, economic and political problems. At the same time they need to understand the evolving and locally specific social and cultural aspects of forestry. This demands a joint approach to forest management, environment protection and landscape conservation. Maintaining the natural resource base and managing forests in a sustainable manner will require teaching programme combining policy and law, business economics and management, and forest resource and environmental economics components.