| Forest & Landscape | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Earliest Possible Year | MSc. 2 year | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Duration | One block | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Credits | 15 (ECTS) | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Course Level | MSc | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Examination | Final Examination oral examination All aids allowed Description of Examination: Examination questions will be based on compulsory material as well as the project reports/assignments. The deliveries are handed in continously during the course. Weight: Oral examination 100%. Examination questions include subjects described in the project reports/assignments. 7-point scale, external examiner | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Requirement For Attending Exam | Delivery of project reports/assignments. | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Organisation of Teaching | - Lectures including guest lectures - Group presentations - Group discussions - Group project report - Seminars - Excursions | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Block Placement | Block 2 Week Structure: A Block 2 Week Structure: C | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Teaching Language | English | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Optional Prerequisites | 290003 Applied Forest and Natural Resource Economics 280008 Natural Resource Sampling and Modelling 400023 Conflict Management 400028 Applied Forest and Natural Resource Economics, Natural Resource Sampling and Modelling, Conflict Management, Project Management | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Restrictions | None | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Course Contents | |||||||||||||||||||||
| As pressures on the natural environment continue to increase the need to ensure the sustainability of natural resources for future generations has never been greater. The sustainable future of natural resources relies upon the integrated management of social, economic, human, biological and physical capital and the careful planning of future resource use. Natural resource managers of the future will need to understand how these different forms of capital interact and harness existing and new techniques to address natural resource issues of the future. Sustainable management planning of forest and nature areas is addressed as examples of critical, exchangeable and unique resources and the course includes additional issues such as e.g., land use, biodiversity, recreation and carbon storage. The course is interdisciplinary, but in particular rests on economic theory. Successful management can only be accomplished by combining the three pillars of sustainability, hence the course presents the state of the art within economic natural resource management planning. | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Teaching And Learning Methods | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Plenary lectures on topics will be given. Theoretical exercises will support the lectures. Students will present results and round-up discussions will summarise. Groups of 3-5 students will prepare a number of project reports within selected topics, including literature search, modelling theory and approaches, economic planning analyses and presentation of report. The reports should address the three sustainability pillars and comply with a management planning paradigm involving sustainability, multi-criteria decision-making methods and stakeholder participation. Seminars on selected topics will be arranged. Excursions link theory to practical sustainable forest and nature management planning. Exact dates and times of excursions involving weekend days will be decided jointly by course participants and teachers. Teaching activities take place in modules A and C. The overall requirements of the course correspond to full time studies. Therefore, it is recommended to use the full block for studies in this course without parallel study activities. | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Learning Outcome | |||||||||||||||||||||
| This thematic course aims at providing a broad synthesis of three main pillars in sustainable management planning of natural resources, owned privately or publicly: economics, ecology and society. Emphasis is on sustainable economic planning, taking into account ecological functions and restrictions and the social context of the resource use. In conclusion the course covers a new paradigm of planning comprising sustainability, multi-criteria decision-making methods and stakeholder participation. Learning outcome objectives: 1) Knowledge (understand and manage biological systems): . Understand a natural science management planning approach emphasising the study objects: forests and natural resources. . Have general knowledge of the structure, development and variation of ecosystems, as well as causes and effects within such systems. . Summarise potentials/restrictions and sustainability of utilisation of biological systems. . Describe modelling, regulation and management of green resources; develop, quantify and use theoretical and applied models of the productive and protective functions of forests and natural resources - material as well as immaterial. . Describe and classify operations research methods including simulation, optimisation, multiple criteria decision-making methods and geographical information systems in combined short and long-term planning. 2) Skills in relation to technology and production (understand and implement economic, dynamic and holistic management planning): . Apply a social science management planning approach to forests and natural resources from the point of view of an enterprise, organisation, and/or society. . Apply economic theory and other economic planning tools for analysing and modelling the welfare and business economic production from forests and natural resources, and realising management and development tasks within the frames given by society (legislation, regulations, facts). . Develop long-term strategies, operational objectives and specific plans for sustainable utilisation and protection of forests and other green resources, considering the social, ecological and economic objectives and limitations. . Understand planning models, formulate and apply basic models based on operations research and economic theory. . Understand the planning process and structure; and communicate planning results. 3) Competences: . Transfer the use of operations research methods and economic theory in management planning for forests and natural resources to other planning problems and situations involving people, social systems, and allocation of scarce production resources. . Transfer a planning structure based on strategic, tactical, and operational objectives to other work situations. . Understand and apply general criteria applicable for economic evaluation of planning results. . Take responsibility for management, negotiation and collaboration within economic planning. . Cooperate and work effectively in a group with a common economic planning project. | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Course Litterature | |||||||||||||||||||||
| A collection of textbook literature, articles, lecture notes and other written material will be required, including: Buongiorno, J. and Gilless, J.K. 2003. Decision Methods for Forest Resource Management. Academic Press, Amsterdam. Helles, F. & Tarp, P. 2006. Introduction to Forest Management Planning. Lecture notes, The Royal Veterinary and Agricultural University, KVL, Danish Centre for Forest, Landscape and Planning, Division of Economics, Policy and Management Planning, Frederiksberg. Paine, D.P. & Kiser, J.D. 2003. Aerial Photography and Image Interpretation. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, New Jersey. Pidd, M. 2003. Tools for Thinking. Modelling in Management Science. John Wiley & Sons Ltd., West Sussex. Tarp, P. 2006. Principles of sustainable forest and natural resource management. The Royal Veterinary and Agricultural University, KVL, Danish Centre for Forest, Landscape and Planning, Division of Economics, Policy and Management Planning, Frederiksberg. | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Course Coordinator | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Peter Tarp, peta@life.ku.dk, Forest & Landscape Denmark/Unit of Forestry, Phone: 35331755 Niels Strange, nst@life.ku.dk, Forest & Landscape Denmark/Unit of Forestry, Phone: 35331753 | |||||||||||||||||||||
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