Activities - PhD course on "International Forestry and Global Issues"

17th to 21st May, 2010
INRA campus, Champenoux, France

The French Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA) together with the European Forest Institute (EFI), represented by EFICENT-Observatory for European Forests (OEF), will conduct a PhD course on “International Forestry and Global Issues" from 17th to 21st May.

The course will address a range of forest issues, topics which rank high on the international and national forest and environmental research and policy agendas. The course will offer PhD students and young scientists an excellent opportunity to interact with internationally renowned experts from various fields of forest science and policy. The following themes will be discussed:
- State of world’s forests and overview of international policies
- Wood products, consumption and trade
- Biodiversity and forests
- Climate change and carbon sequestration
- Rural areas, forestry and society

The course is aimed at young scientists doing their research on forest related topics. Within the course, trans-disciplinary topics and approaches will be discussed and students with different research backgrounds are welcome to participate.

For detailed information and applications, visit https://colloque.inra.fr/globalforestrycourse.