SUNY-ESF Joachim Center 12th Annual Forum:
Opportunities for Forest Resources, Forest Products and Allied Industries in a Potentially Carbon and Non-Renewable Energy Constrained World
Joachim Center for Forest Industry, Economy and Environment
The Joachim Center focuses on improving the understanding and resolution of environmental problems facing the pulp and paper and related forest industries. The ultimate objective is maintaining a high-quality natural environment and a profitable, vigorous, and competitive industry. The goals of the Center are achieved through four program areas:
- Objective intellectual inquiry into the key challenge-the contribution to a strong economy made by harvesting, processing, and manufacturing timber, a renewable natural resource, into industrial and consumer products and the maintenance of a high-quality living environment.
- Development and promotion of a research agenda that focuses on finding effective solutions to the most critical environmental issues facing the forest-based industries.
- Advancement of a better understanding by industry of the environmental issues facing the forest products industry, government, environmental organizations, and the public, with the objective of finding mutually acceptable solutions beneficial to society.
- Support for resident instruction, research, and public service at the College of Environmental Science and Forestry to address the complex management and policy issues that have an impact on profits, employment, economic growth, and the natural environment.
