While studying Forest Bioeconomy Sciences and Technology, you’re developing interdisciplinary skills and competencies to manage and utilize renewable natural resources in the bioeconomy. You also learn how to measure the environmental and socio-economic impact of renewable resources in order to enhance the sustainability of existing systems and new innovations.
These skills and abilities may include:
- Business management and leadership skills
- Understanding of the changing global climate through ecosystem properties and processes, human impacts, and the earth-atmosphere system
- Coordination of the production and use of renewable products and energy from bio-based materials
- Community engagement and policy development
- Quantitative sustainability methodology
- Economic and impact analysis on potential environmental and socio-political effects of bio-based technologies and climate change
- Planning and management of land use
- Comprehension on protocols for carbon accounting and methodologies for emissions inventories and carbon costing
- Planning, drafting, and editing of professional-quality documents for specialists and other stakeholders
- Delivering effective and engaging oral presentations
- Molecular understanding and insight into bioproduct development
- Use of microbiology and enzymology for processing and enhancing the value of forest and agro-based bioproducts
- Innovative biobased material design and manufacturing