Yale Bulletin and Calendar

December 15, 2006|Volume 35, Number 13|Four-Week Issue

Spring courses for executives will
focus on global forestry issues

An executive education program focusing on the condition and dynamics of global forests will be offered in the spring by Yale University's Global Institute of Sustainable Forestry.

The program, which will consist of two week-long courses at Yale in March and April, will provide executives in forestry and forest-related companies, industry and the financial community, as well as members of the media, with the latest research in forest science and management, issues and trends.

In "Executives Learning About Forestry," which will run March 25-30, executives moving into forestry-related businesses or organizations will get an overview of forest biology and management as a basis for understanding forest resources and management techniques, tools and perspectives.

"After completing the course, they will know the location of, markets for and the varieties and uses of wood around the world, as well as understand the concerns of environmentalists on a myriad of issues," says Chad Oliver, director of the Global Institute of Sustainable Forestry and the Pinchot Professor of Forestry & Environmental Studies at the School of Forestry & Environmental Studies (F&ES). "It will give participants a fundamental understanding of the potential of the forest industry."

In "Foresters Becoming Executives," which will be offered April 15-20, foresters stepping into mid-level executive and senior management positions will be exposed to the latest thinking on national and global forest issues.

"Young forest managers are very good about knowing how to manage forests in a given area," said Oliver. "But at a higher management level, they'll need to make the right decisions about allocating resources and investments and learn not to apply the same approach that was successful in Idaho to Chile. The course will also give managers the pedigree to interact confidently at the board level."

Both courses will include discussion of forestry and biotechnology; illegal logging; forest health and invasive exotic pests; forest certification; carbon sequestration and carbon credits; the future of cities and the effect on forests; sustainable forestry and consumption; tropical forest issues; energy, wood and the future; payment for environmental services; reserves, integrated management and intensive plantations; and rural forest communities.

Oliver, a renowned expert in the field of forest stand dynamics, will co-teach the courses with Lloyd Irland, formerly a research economist with the U.S. Forest Service and Maine's state economist for five years. Irland is actively engaged with major land-use and industrial-competitiveness issues in the Northern Forest of New York and New England. In addition, guest lecturers and other Yale faculty experts will round out discussions of emerging issues.

For more information, contact Barbara Ruth at (203) 432-5117 or barbara.ruth@yale.edu. For registration materials, visit www.yale.edu/gisf.

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