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Nuevos cursos en línea para Ingenieros Forestales UC ofrece la University British Columbia (Canadá) en el marco de convenio de colaboración

not UBCWhile tropical forests provide multiple ecosystem services and functions, much of them invaluable for human beings, 13 million hectares experience deforestation each year, causing severe consequence for biodiversity conservation, climate change adaptation and livelihood of millions of people. By promoting forestry education, our initiative offers free online courses aimed to promote sustainable forest management (SFM) education particularly in Asia-Pacific region to mid-career professionals, young faculty, senior forestry students and those who are interested in sustainable forest management. For more information on our initiative click here.

Forestry Online Courses

Since the launch of our project, five free online courses were designed and tailored to answer the rising need for better forest management and practices. Today, we are proud to introduce Restoration of Degraded Forest Ecosystem & Forest Plantation Development, a course developed by University of Melbourne to teach the principles of tree growth for restoration of degraded forests as well as the theories and practices behind forest plantation development. Through the AP-FECM platform, this online course now will be facilitated by UBC instructor to provide open educational resources in forestry for global learners.

Course Period: October 15 – December 11, 2018

What to Expect

By the end of this course, you should be able to:
- Define and describe the main processes of forest functioning including forest carbon and nutrient cycles
- Recognize and describe properties of degraded forests and principles of forest restoration
- Explain restoration strategies and describe methods to assess success of restoration activities
- Describe in detail all stages in the development of a forest plantation enterprise, and give examples from existing plantation projects in the Asia-Pacific region

For more information on the organisation of the course and how to apply: http://apfecm.forestry.ubc.ca/news-events/2018-2/our-newest-online-course-restoration-of-degraded-forest-ecosystems-forest-plantation-development/?utm_source=AP-FECM+Newsletter+List&utm_campaign=240b57b410-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_09_17_06_03&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_89de45b248-240b57b410-258629425

 

En la Universidad de Agricultura de Suecia (SLU) finaliza su pasantía la profesora Paulina Fernández.

pasantía PFernandezLa profesora M. Paulina Fernández está terminando una pasantía de dos meses en la Universidad de Agricultura de Suecia (SLU), sede Umea, en el Departamento de Ecología Forestal y Manejo.

Dicha pasantía es financiada parcialmente por el proyecto SuFoRun SuFoRun – models and decision SUpport tools for integrated Forest policy development under global change and associated Risk and Uncertainty, un Proyecto Marie Sklodowska-Curie Research and Innovation Staff Exchange (RISE)- grant agreement Nr: 691149.

Entre sus actividades ha estado el colaborar en un proyecto de investigación en dendroclimatología usando Pinus sylvestris y Picea abies, así como liderar una postulación a la convocatoria STINT 2018, Suecia – Chile, para crear redes de colaboración científica entre ambos países. En dicha postulación se logró reunir a un grupo de 23 investigadores de la Universidad de Lund y SLU por parte de Suecia, y de la Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, la Universidad de Chile, la Universidad de Aysén, la Universidad de Magallanes y el Centro de Investigación en Ecosistemas de Patagonia, en torno al tema "Forest ecosystems in Sweden and Chile: addressing global change challenges in a socioecological context".

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