Students' views on forestry education: A cross-national comparison across three universities in Brazil, China and Finland

Forest Policy and Economics

Volumn 25, Issue , 2012, Pages 123-131

  Arevalo, Javier ^a   Mola Yudego, Blas ^a   Pelkonen, Paavo ^a   Qu, Mei ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EASTERN FINLAND   (Finland)

^b NORTHWEST A F UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Competencies; Curriculum; Forestry education; International study; Students' views

Indexed keywords

BACHELOR STUDENTS; COMPETENCIES; CROSS-NATIONAL; FIELD EXPERIENCE; FINLAND; FORESTRY EDUCATION; INSTITUTIONAL FACTORS; INTERNATIONAL STUDY; MASTER'S DEGREE; NATIONAL LANGUAGE; PUBLIC FORESTS; SUBJECT-SPECIFIC; WRITING SKILLS;

CURRICULA; FORESTRY;

STUDENTS;

BRAZIL; CHINA; EDUCATION; FINLAND; FORESTRY;

EID: 84868193431     PISSN: 13899341     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.forpol.2012.08.015     Document Type: Article

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