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From here, we have to go in a triangular direction, which means that there is an environmental component, a sociological component, and an economic component, attached to Forest Management. How do you take care of the forest environment in terms of managing the resources? How do you undertake the development of the forest sector as an industry for economic activities? And while you are doing the above, how do you take care of the sociological dimension of the people who dwell there? So at IIFM's two-year Post Graduate Program in Forest Management (PGPFM), we talk about these three important components.

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In General Management, we usually talk about managing corporate, managing accounts, finances, human resources, marketing, organizational behavior, operations, or systems, and so on, in the first year, and then in the second year, we teach them advanced courses based on these subjects.

In the Forest Management Program, we teach all this and then in the second year we move on to specialization in the forestry sector, where it stands, implications of this sector, say for example carbon trading, Kyoto protocol, carbon sequestering, climatic change, global warming environmental impact assessment, environmental accounting, and so on. Besides this, students here also take specialized courses on, say, Corporate Social Responsibility.

So at the end of the two years, the students passing out of IIFM become employable as theme managers. For every development, there is a price to be paid. They decide how one can set a balance between development and environmental degradation. They help large corporations work in a green way, so in that sense they are Green Managers. That is where the PGDFM program has an edge over other general management programs.

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