With the burgeoning demands placed on forest ecosystems by a growing human population, safeguarding and restoring ecosystem functions for a sustainable future is more vital than ever.
Natural Resources Conservation: Forest Resource Management Concentration Courses
Natural Resources Economics
This course explores
Important economic principles relevant to natural resource management with an emphasis on forest-based resources. Topics include supply and demand, pricing, investment evaluation, net revenue maximization, non-timber forest products and the emerging field of ecosystem service valuation.
Forest Policy
This course identifies the major scientific and social drivers which have created new paradigms in forestry. Policy and actual forestry practices will be critically compared to examine how land-use decisions are made. General topics will include historical land-use shifts, environmentalism, economic shifts, interagency conflict, conservation mechanisms, and cross-border forest policies.
Forest Resources Assessment
Forests contribute to community resilience by regulating water flows, sequestering carbon, harboring biodiversity and providing food, energy, shelter, income and employment. This course provides the student with the basic skills and knowledge to collect useful data typically required during the assessment phase of resource management efforts, reflecting the diversity of uses and services provided by forests.
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We, the Faculty at Paul Smith’s College, strive to preserve an exceptional way of teaching and learning informed by the real work of humanity – to be environmentally and socially responsible to the planet and its people. Our way crosses all disciplines, explores connections, and expresses itself confidently in thoughts, words, and deeds. At the core of our experiential education, we hold these values to be indispensable: a) a deepened engagement with our students, it is real and in place; b) an integrated education that cultivates the student as a whole being in mind, body, heart, and soul; and c) the history, culture and environment of the Adirondacks as a place that speaks to our deeper sense of self and purpose. We strive to preserve our way and our values to be a universal example that connections of people with people and of people with environments is at the heart of education.