PhD course: Forestry for students without a forest education, 4.5 ECTS

Forests are increasingly prominent in public and political discourse, with concerns about climate change, forest damage, and sustainable management.

Start date: 3 November 2025 00:00

End date: 12 December 2025 00:00

Organiser: Department of Forest Resource Management

Location: Online, Umeå

Last day of registration: 24 October 2025

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Education in forestry can facilitate dialogue between various stakeholders to address these issues and promote understanding of sustainable forest use and its positive impact on its role in climate mitigation.

This course will offer lectures about:

  • the basic statistical facts about Swedish forests and forestry,
  • the most common silvicultural measures, and the reasons for doing them,
  • the most common methods to make forest inventories, and the use of inventory data.
  • the most common forest planning methods and techniques and
  • the most common forest modeling systems, and the use of such models

Read more about the course at the SLU course database.

Programs

One week at SLU Umeå campus between 10/11 to 14/11 November 2025.

@ Contact

  • Torgny Lind
    Division of Forest Resource Analysis
    +46907868518 +46706785547