Specialized Master® FNS-Im

in response to current and urgent issues affecting the natural environment, the advanced master’s pro-gram “forestry, nature, and society – international management” (am fns-im) offers a post-msc year-long training course to 8-15 auditors. the program’s specificity is to: (1) offer a number of key teachings in social sciences (sociology, economics, political, and management sciences) applied to natural resources man-agement, and (2) combine these with courses in the technical and scientific aspects of temperate and tropical forest management. understanding the relationships between the three main levels of operationality for the environment - local, national and international – is crucial today. natural ecosystems, and in particular forest ecosys-tems, present major environmental and social concerns related to sustainable development. climate change, biodiversity, desertification, soil erosion, regulation of hydrosystems are all central issues that society is now, timidly attempting t