PhD in Forestry and Wildlife Management

Program Overview

The PhD in Forestry and Wildlife Management program at Roth Gyula Doctoral School encompasses all aspects of forestry and wildlife management sciences. It offers eight doctoral programs covering topics such as forest ecology, wildlife management, forest assets management, forest technology, nature conservation, geoinformatics, and forest and environmental pedagogy. Graduates are well-prepared for leadership roles in higher education, research, forestry, wildlife management, and conservation.

Program Outline

Outline:

The PhD in Forestry and Wildlife Management

program at the Roth Gyula Doctoral School of Forestry and Wildlife Management Sciences encompasses all the branches and interfaces of forestry and wildlife management sciences. The program offers eight doctoral programs:

• E1 Ecology and Diversity of Forest Ecosystems
• Research on the composition, structure and inter-actions of forest ecosystems is part of the program.
• Geographical conditions vital for forest management and the requirements for maintaining sustainable management and preserving the stability of ecosystems are identified.
• The main areas of research are: site conditions of forest stands, hydrology, climatic conditions, and the diversity of forest ecosystems, such as soil microbiology, physiology, botany and dendrology, species composition, structure, dynamics and inter-relations of ecosystems, and the evolutionary and genetic processes of woody plants.
• E2 Biological Basis of Forest Management
• The doctoral program teaches sylviculture, production of seed material, wildlife management, forest protection (including pathology and zoology), adopting the latest experimental and research findings, related both to plantation forestry and to nature-oriented management.
• E3 Forest Assets Management
• The subject is concerned with the analyses of the stock type characteristics of forests and forestry processes in natural and financial terms, as well as the harmonisation of the legal and economic regulations with forestry interests.
• Disciplines of the forest assets management programme are: forest management planning, computer science applied to forestry, forest and hunting rights, forestry history, hunting law, economics for forest and wildlife management (forestry accounting and finance, forest and damage assessment, and sales and marketing policy).
• E4 Forest Technology
• This PhD sub–programme provides a comprehensive, scientific approach to the technical implementation of forestry policies (mechanisation, energetics, forest utilisation, opening-up and water management) based on measurements and experiments.
• It deals with the improvement of mechanisation in reproductive material production, sylviculture, forest and timber utilisation, and with the development of mechanisation in energy tree plantations, the connection between mechanisation and environment protection, wood for energy production, planning, organisation and technology of forest utilisation, topics of opening-up and water management as well as with forest road construction and maintenance.
• E5 Wildlife Management
• In the doctoral program, students deal with the forest, field and water ecosystems and their species and communities of species.
• The research topics embrace all the areas of open field game conservation and management and all the fields of hunting, as well as all the related sciences such as the kennel, gun ballistics, trophy assessment, wildlife health, game management in closure, wildlife forage ground and game feeding, economics and history of the science.
• E6 Nature Conservation
• The Nature Conservation course aims at the implementation of a scientific programme that monitors international strategies addressing natural challenges of global issues and their effective application to Hungary.
• The programme encourages nature-conscious development and experiments in the national conservation practice, while strengthening scientific grounds of professional and political efforts.
• It will involve a talented new generation in the innovative research.
• It aims to educate experts who are not only professionals, receptive to theory, but experts with positive values of life and healthy ecosystems.
• E7 Geoinformatics Programme
• The rapid development of GIS, the expansion of satellite monitoring and positioning methods led to the initiation of a separate Geoinformatics programme at the Doctoral School.
• It offers courses and research opportunities in the field of land management, surveying and geoinformatics, mainly related to agricultural management and land use, including the application of the modern technical tools of thematic modelling, remote sensing and mapping.
• E8 Forest and Environmental Pedagogy Programme

Careers:

Knowledge and the degree gained at the Doctoral School are a good reference when applying for leading positions in:

• Higher education institutions
• Research institutes
• Forestry
• Wildlife management
• Conservation

Tuition fee: 1850 USD / semester