The Faculty of Forest and Environmental Sciences

• 13 institutes

  Soil Science and Forest Nutrition
  Forest Utilisation and Work Science
  Forest Botany and Tree Physiology with the Chairs of Forest Botany and Tree Physiology
  Forest Economics with the Departments of Forest Economics and Remote Sensing and Landscape Information System
  Forest Policy with Land Use Policy, Markets and Marketing and Forest History
  Forest Zoology with Wildlife Ecology and Management
  Hydrology
  Landscape Management
  Meteorological Institute
  Physical Geography
  Cultural Geography
  Silviculture with Vegetation Science
  Forest Growth with the Deartments Forest Growth and Forest Biometry

• 26 professorships

  Overview with research fields

• 135 full time employees and 44 further scientists
• Three subjects: Forest Sciences, Geography, Hydrology
• Degree courses

  BSc Environmental Natural Sciences
  BSc Forestry and Environment
  BSc Geography
  
  Teacher Training Geography
  
  M.Sc. Environmental Governance
  M.Sc. Forest Ecology and Management
  M.Sc. Forstwissenschaft
  M.Sc. Geographie des Globalen Wandels
  M.Sc. Hydrologie
  M.Sc. Renewable Energy Management

• Partners of the Faculty in the subject of forestry:

  ENGREF, Nancy, France
  University of Forestry, Sopron/Hungary
  University of Forestry, Lviv/Ukraine
  Penn State University/USA
  University of Toronto/Canada
  CATIE, Turrialba/Costa Rica
  Centro de Ciências Florestais, Curitiba/Brazil
  Facultad de Ciencias Forestales, Valdivia/Chile

• The faculty library and the various libraries of the institutes hold more than 60.000 books
• Modern facilities, faculty owned lecture rooms, computer rooms with GIS and digital image processing softwares, seminar rooms
• Constant access to internet for all students
• 5.000 ha of municipal forest and 127 ha of university owned forest in the Black Forest
• and to relax you can simply go to the "Förstercafé", run by the students

For more information please see: www.ffu.uni-freiburg.de

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