The Future of Professional Forestry Education: Trends and Challenges from the Malaysian Perspective
<p><span style="font-size: x-small;">The traditional forestry education schemes are no longer sufficient to train professional foresters to manage the forest resources in a changing world. Even in forest-rich nations such as Malaysia, the challenges faced by forestry education...
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| author | Jegatheswaran RATNASINGAM Florin IORAS Claudia Cristina VACALIE Lu WENMING |
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| description | <p><span style="font-size: x-small;">The traditional forestry education schemes are no longer sufficient to train professional foresters to manage the forest resources in a changing world. Even in forest-rich nations such as Malaysia, the challenges faced by forestry education are growing. The declining student enrolment and interests in the field must be stopped, if the field is to remain viable. The roles played by the forest have shifted from purely commercial products exploitation to environmental and social centric. In this context, forestry education will need to be restructured to impart the necessary knowledge and skills to the foresters to enable them to perform up to expectation in the field. </span></p> |
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| spelling | doaj.art-a6deadbf46354cb5813d5850b49b43e42022-12-21T22:25:15ZengAcademicPresNotulae Botanicae Horti Agrobotanici Cluj-Napoca0255-965X1842-43092013-05-01411122010.15835/nbha41191397882The Future of Professional Forestry Education: Trends and Challenges from the Malaysian PerspectiveJegatheswaran RATNASINGAM0Florin IORAS1Claudia Cristina VACALIE2Lu WENMING3University Putra Malaysia, Faculty of Forestry, 43400 UPM, Serdang, SelangorInstitute for Sustainable Studies, Buckinghamshire New University, Queen Alexandra Road, High Wycombe, HP 11 2 JZ Buckinghamshire, United KingdomFaculty of Silviculture and Forest Engineering, Transilvania University of Brasov, 1Sirul Beethoven, 2200 BrasovChinese Forestry Academy, Wanshoushan Hou, Haidian District, Beijing 100091<p><span style="font-size: x-small;">The traditional forestry education schemes are no longer sufficient to train professional foresters to manage the forest resources in a changing world. Even in forest-rich nations such as Malaysia, the challenges faced by forestry education are growing. The declining student enrolment and interests in the field must be stopped, if the field is to remain viable. The roles played by the forest have shifted from purely commercial products exploitation to environmental and social centric. In this context, forestry education will need to be restructured to impart the necessary knowledge and skills to the foresters to enable them to perform up to expectation in the field. </span></p>http://www.notulaebotanicae.ro/index.php/nbha/article/view/9139 |
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| title | The Future of Professional Forestry Education: Trends and Challenges from the Malaysian Perspective |
| title_full | The Future of Professional Forestry Education: Trends and Challenges from the Malaysian Perspective |
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| title_short | The Future of Professional Forestry Education: Trends and Challenges from the Malaysian Perspective |
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