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AEC694 – Responsible Wood Sourcing…THIS COURSE IS NO LONGER OFFERED
THIS COURSE IS NO LONGER OFFERED.
Upon completion of this course, the Learner should be able to:
- Discuss why forests are vital to life on Earth and why we need to use and manage our forest resources more wisely.
- Identify four priority forest regions, and both wildlife and wood species from them, that are currently under threat.
- State the forestry concerns that affect North America.
- Define the threats to forests and the impacts of deforestation.
- List the solutions to deforestation and forest degradation, including responsible forest management and strategies for sourcing and specifying responsible wood products.
Approximately 1 hour. Delivered online, at your own pace.
Presented by Amy Smith on behalf of World Wildlife Fund. View the Privacy Policy .
Presenter Information
Name: Amy Smith
Title: Senior Program Officer, World Wildlife Fund
Background: Amy Smith has more than 15 years of experience in tropical forestry, forest products manufacturing and marketing, and Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) certification. Amy currently is Senior Program Officer with the Global Forest and Trade Network-North America (GFTN-NA) program. In her role with GFTN-NA, Amy assists companies in understanding the sources of their forest products, implementing responsible sourcing policies, increasing the amount of credibly certified products in their supply chain, and in making market linkages between wood buyers and suppliers that share a commitment to responsible forestry and trade.
Prior to her work with GFTN-NA, Amy was Director of PaTS, a non-profit organization that supports indigenous communities in the Peruvian Amazon to produce and market sustainably-harvested wooden handicrafts. While at PaTS, she also promoted the analysis of lesser-known timber species for furniture manufacturing in an effort to alleviate pressure on over-harvested species, and helped to raise awareness about FSC certification within the U.S. furniture industry. Before that, Amy held other positions at WWF in the U.S. and in Peru, where she provided fundraising and technical assistance for forest conservation projects, focusing in particular on protected area management, community-based natural resource management and monitoring and evaluation.
Amy has a M.A. in International Affairs from Columbia University with a concentration in Environmental Policy and a B.A. in Political Science from Boston College.
