Sustainable Outputs from Forested Lands

This subject has the following teaching availabilities in 2009:

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This subject discusses the production of sustainable outputs from forested land. It covers both wood and non-wood forest products.

On completion of this subject, students should:

• recognise forests as having multiple uses and the complexity of making management decisions for multi-resource forests;

• be familiar with both wood and non-wood forest products and the marketing and sale of these forest products;

• understand the concept of sustainable forestry; and

• be familiar with the features and structure of hardwoods and softwoods, the conversion of logs into wood products, value adding, defects, degradation and decay of wood products.

The subject covers the areas of:

• characteristics of world forests, developments in conservation and forest management;

• forest management practices and trade patterns in forest products;

• structure and features of hardwoods and softwoods, milling processes, solid and composite wood products, value adding, paper and pulp ­production;

• non-wood forest products, integrated forest management;

• marketing forest products;

• wood science; and

• sustainability.

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This subject is not available as a breadth subject.

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