Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
Department of Forest Resource Management

Borgafjället

The Department conducts research and doctoral education in six competence areas (research groups), undergraduate and Master´s education in six subject areas and environmental monitoring and assessment in three comprehensive inventory programs. Read more about the department

Head of Department: Johan Fransson
Deputy Head: Karin Öhman
Information and webmaster: Sofia Hansson

COMPETENCE AREAS

 

Remote Sensing

Forest Inventory and Empirical Ecosystem Modeling

Forest Planning

Forest Operations Management

Forest in Rural Studies

International Forestry

 

 

 

 

 
In 2004 the Department became the first at SLU to be environmentally certified in accordance with ISO 14001.

PROGRAMMES AND LARGER PROJECTS

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NEWS

2011-01-26 -  What do forest owners want with their associations?
This spring SLU will start a new project to study the future of the forest owners associations. For associations in general it is adamant to rejuvenate themselves.
2010-11-18 -  NFI data now available in Gapminder
Data from the National Forest Inventory is now available in Hans Rosling’s award winning Gapminder program. Users can now examine forest variables for the whole world based on data from the UNs FAO (Food...
2010-09-24 -  New statistics from the Swedish National Forest Inventory
The amount of dead wood in Sweden's forests has increased by more than 25% since the 1990's and continues to rise. Even the total standing volume continues to increase and has now passed 3100 million cubic...
2010-08-24 -  Publication on status and changes in the southern swedish forests
A report studying the status and change in forests with high natural value in southern Sweden has been published by Frank Götmark in the botanical journal Svensk Botanisk Tidskrift. The Swedish National...
 
 
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