The authors would like to thank the following persons for their kind contribution:
Prof ADAMOVSKYY, Deputy Rector of the Ukrainian State University of Forestry and Wood Technology (USUFWT), in L'viv, for having arranged the provision of all necessary information from his University;
Prof Y. GOLUBETS, Dean of the Faculty of Wood Technology of the USUFWT in L'viv, for his kind personal interview and for the information concerning the organisation and courses offered by the Faculty of Wood Technology;
Prof B. BILYK, Dean of the Faculty of Forest Mechanical Engineering of the USUFWT in L'viv, for information concerning the organization and courses offered by the Faculty Forest Mechanical Engineering;
Dr I. VINTONIV, Dean of the Faculty of Forestry of the USUFWT in L'viv, for his kind personal interview and for the information concerning the organization and courses offered by the Faculty of Forestry;
Dr P. DYNKA, former Dean of the Faculty of Economics of the USUFWT in L'viv, for the information concerning the organization and courses offered by the Faculty of Economics;
Dr S. KOZLOVSKY, Deputy Dean of the Faculty of Economics of the USUFWT in L'viv, for the specific part concerning the development of the forest economics curriculum for bachelor, specialist and master degrees;
Dr B. DZIADEVICH, Head of the International Relations Office of the USUFWT in L'viv, for his kind help in simultaneous translations;
Prof MAURER, Dean of the Faculty of Forestry at the National Agriculture University of Ukraine (NAUU), for having provided the authors with documents on the study courses in Forestry in Ukraine;
Dr POPKOV, Head of the Forest Management Research Unit at the Ukrainian State Committee on Forestry, Kyiv, for having provided the authors with comprehensive updated data on the forestry resources in Ukraine;
Mr Y. CHERNEY, Director of the Forest Technical School in Bolechiev, for the detailed information offered on forestry technical schools;
Ms L. CIAGHI, graduating student from the Department of Land Use and Agro-Forestry Systems, University of Padova, for her kind contribution in collecting information in Ukraine;
Ms O. ZUBIUK, graduate student at the USUFWT in L'viv, for her kind help in translating and accompanying all the necessary visits to the most relevant institutions in Ukraine.
Without their support, experience and capability, the authors would hardly have been able to carry out this work.
