Reorienting forestry education to sustainable forest management

Issue Date

2003

Abstract

This paper is about organizational re-engineering in support of Sustainable Forestry (SF) or Sustainable Forest Management (SMF). It focuses on the change strategies adopted by the University of the Philippines Los Baños (UPLB) College of Forestry and Natural Resources (CFNR) to re-orient its academic programs to the needs and challenges of sustainable forest management. Sustainable forest management implies a new way of seeing, thinking, and doing in relation to forests, natural resources, nd the environment. As such, new policies, programs, and approaches as well as new institutional and individual capabilities (knowledge, attitudes, values, and skills) in forestry are needed. To maintain its relevance, the UPLB College of Forestry and Natural Resources, as a leading tropical forestry institution of higher learning, has initiated changes in its academic programs so that it will be more responsive to sustainable forest management challenges. To achieve the desired changes, the College has adopted five institutional development and change strategies. The experience at UPLB CFNR could offer some insight to other forestry educational institutions who wish to maintain relevance in the face of the paradigm shift in forestry and natural resource management.

Source or Periodical Title

Journal of Environmental Science and Management

ISSN

0119-1144

Volume

6

Issue

2

Page

49-58

Document Type

Article

Frequency

semi-annually

Physical Description

tables, graph

Language

English

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