116521 Methods in Natural Resource Management

Detaljer
Skov & Landskab
Inst. for Jordbrugsvidenskab   0 %
Inst. for Husdyrbr. og Husdyrsundhed (2003/2004)   0 %
Tidligst mulig placering
Varighed1 semester
 
Pointværdi6 (ECTS)
KursustypeKandidatkursus
 
Eksamenskriftlig prøve


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Beskrivelse af eksamen: 13-skala, intern censur

Eksamensdatoer:
 
Rammer for undervisningLectures: 1 course module per week Excersis: 4 hours per week
 
BlokplaceringE2, fall
Tuesdag 13-17

 
UndervisningssprogEngelsk
 
Anbefalede forudsætninger120611 Basic Statistics
 
Kursets målsætning
The aim of the course is to provide students with essential fieldwork-related skills in relation to natural resource management. The skills acquired through this course will be useful in all agricultural systems (cropping, forest, livestock and rangeland systems), and relevant for academic work at all levels, including project and thesis work.
 
Kursusindhold
Increasingly, master students and graduates are confronted with highly complex agricultural environments, including both hard and soft systems, in which they have to collect data for project and thesis work. The complexity includes, for example, the resource efficiency of diverse cropping systems, the influence of decision-making structures in natural resource management on the well being of farmers, or the access to resources like water, agricultural land, fertilizer, pastures and/or forests.

This course provides skills needed in the subsequent thematic courses, thesis work and post-graduate career, which are not covered in other disciplinary courses. Specifically, the students will learn:

· to select and apply appropriate methods for collecting and analysing data;
· to plan and conduct fieldwork; and
· to apply a range of relevant data collection and analysis techniques relating natural resource management to household livelihood strategies.


The student will obtain knowledge on:

· systems thinking in problem analysis
· research processes and design
· planning and conducting fieldwork
· qualitative data collection methods
· quantitative data collection methods
· data definition, data validity and reliability
· data recording
· selected case studies
 
Undervisningsform
1. Lectures These focus on introducing research processes, data collection methods and case studies. 2. Exercises These focus on designing data collection forms and using data analysis tools. Students will collect data themselves and work with raw data, collected by the involved departments, related to natural resource management in complex systems in rural areas. Exercises will be based on direct participation as well as web-based learning.
 
Litteraturhenvisninger
Compendium and lecture notes
 
Kursusansvarlig
Finn Helles, fh@life.ku.dk, Skov & Landskab/Økonomi, Politik og Driftsplanlægning, Tlf: 35331738
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Helle Overgaard Larsen, hol@life.ku.dk, Center for Skov, Landskab og Planlægning/Økonomi, Politik og Driftsplanlægning, Tlf: 35331732
Henning Høgh Jensen, hhj@life.ku.dk, Institut for Jordbrugsvidenskab/Miljø, Ressourcer og Teknologi, Tlf: 35333391
 
Studienævn
Studienævn AHJ
 
Kursusbeskrivelsesomfang
forelæsninger35
praktiske øvelser35
forberedelse90
eksamen20

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