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VII. Suggested Reading
Arunachdam A and Kha ML 2001. 
Sustainable Management of Forest in India
, IBD, Dehradun.
Bentley J and Recknagel AB. 1995. 
Forest Management
. International book distributors, Dehra
Dun.
Davis
 et al
. 2005. 
Forest Management
, IV Edition. Waveland Press Inc, USA.

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Vol. 1
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Innes JL. 1993. 
Forest Health-Its Assessment and Status
, CAB international, U.K.
Pulparambil J. 2002. 
Forest Management – An HRD Approach
. Uppal Publishing House, New
Delhi.
Raison RJ, Brown AJ and Flimn PW. 2003. 
Criteria and Indicators for Sustainable Forest
Management.
CAB Publications, UK.
Lecture Schedule
Sr. No.
Topic
No. of Lecture (s)
Theory
1.
Principles of forest management; scope and objectives of forest
management, ecosystem management, development of forest
management in India
3
2.
Case studies in relation of even and uneven aged stands.
Project planning
3
3.
Site quality evaluation and importance. Stand density
2
4.
Classical approaches to yield regulation in forest management,
salient feature and strategies, Basis of yield regulation. Methods
of yield regulation. Examples in relation to Indian forests
5
5.
Forest evaluation and appraisal in regulated forests. Operational
research methods in forest management and application
3
6.
Application of operational research methods in forest planning
models; emphasis on algorithms, problem formulation and
interpretation of results
3
7.
Simulation modeling of forest operations processing facilities;
principles and methodology for performing simulation experiments;
emphasis on building, running and analyzing simulation based
models applicable to forest operations and wood products processing
4
8.
Application of programming-linear and dynamic, network analysis,
PERT (program evaluation and review technique) and CPM
(Critical path method), inventory models
3
9.
Working plans and working schemes, their role in nature
conservation, biodiversity and other dimensions and control
3
10.
Preparation of working plan, different types of map, steps in
working plan preparation. Difference between management
plan, working plan, microplan
3
Total
30
Practical
1.
Application of above techniques through a case analysis using
forest inventories
5
2.
Application and use of operational research methods in forest
planning models.
5
3.
Simulation modeling of forest operations and processing facilities.
6
Total
16

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