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Meeting of International University Forest Education Leaders

Year of publication 2001

Place of publication Rome, Italy ;

Pages 63

Product type Meeting

Edition 1

Synopsis (short abstract) Forestry, it seems, is always at some sort of a crossroads. The long time scale of most forest management endeavors has frequently rendered forestry less flexible than society's expectations of forests and forestry. This had led to a phenomenon described by the US futurist Alvin Toffler as "Future Shock". The dramatic shift over the past decade in the balance of forest values desired by society has created many pressures on the profession and practice of forestry. It has raised the fundamenta l question: Do we still need "forestry", and, as a consequence, do we still need faculties and schools of forestry?

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