Introduction to plant biology, with special emphasis on growth and development, highlighting the...
Use of microbiology and enzymology for processing and enhancing value of forest and agro-based...

BEST 202 Alternative Energy Systems

Introduction to safe, clean, and sustainable supplies of energy. Economic, social, environmental, and policy issues raised by current systems of energy use and production are examined.

Forestry
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BEST 401 Carbon and Energy Economics

Understanding key issues for carbon management, protocols for carbon accounting and methodologies for emissions inventories and carbon costing. Economics and business response to climate change are examined.

Forestry
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BEST 402 Industrial Ecology

Concepts in sustainability around technology and material use; relevance of biological ecology to industrial ecology; life cycle analysis: components and applications; and approaches to design.

Forestry
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Laboratory modules for bioeconomy technologies; bioenergy and bioproducts.
Global overview of land use management and planning, with a focus on principles and practice.
Understanding key issues for carbon management, protocols for carbon accounting and methodologies...
Concepts in sustainability around technology and material use; relevance of biological ecology to...
Project-based course on development of bioeconomy products; demonstration of out-of-box thinking,...

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