ABSTRACT
Environmental issues, broadly construed, are in the public eye, and forests and forestry are explicitly included. Thus hard changes are in store for forestry and environmental academia, including growth, movement away from disciplinary and commodity focus toward solving politically and socially defined problems, and movement toward integrative research and teaching on a scale rarely contemplated. In addition, the number of students entering forestry programs is declining, thus decreasing the need for forestry faculty, and decreasing the pool from which future researchers will be drawn. Forestry schools, although several have been recently quite active, have usually lagged agriculture in the internationalization of their teaching and research. However, the setting and maintenance of buildings, statues and monuments, and the realization of artistic, social and engineering goals in cities are dependent on environmental variables and can be aided by ecosystem and forestry concepts.
