| Responsible Department | Forest & Landscape | ||||||||||||||
| Research School | ikke relevant | ||||||||||||||
| Course Dates | 1st October- 1st December 2012 | ||||||||||||||
| Course Abstract | The course consists of the following five elements: 1.Social cultural dynamics 2.Environmental Resource Economics: 3.Environmental Law and institutional framework 4.Research planning, design and methods | ||||||||||||||
| Course Registration | The course has been tailor made for four Kenyan PhD students who are attached to the same Research project. | ||||||||||||||
| Deadline for Registration | The course is on-going | ||||||||||||||
| Credits | 15 (ECTS) | ||||||||||||||
| Level of Course | PhD course | ||||||||||||||
| Language of Instruction | English | ||||||||||||||
| Course Content | |||||||||||||||
| * Social cultural dynamics: Social development: tradition practices, land use philosophies and their impact on peace and conflicts; social transformation induced by natural factors; politics and environmental management, gender and equity, poverty and environmental management, demographic dynamics and environment, negotiations and consensus building; community participation, Community empowerment and involvement of multi-stakeholders in protection, conservation and environmental restoration: knowledge transfer, indigenous knowledge, capacity building, mobilization; public versus private interests; application of environmental and social impact assessment; case studies * Environmental Resource Economics: Interactions of environment and economy; renewable verses non-renewable resources; scarcity and competition; natural resource based conflicts and governance, demography dynamics, access and benefit sharing, payment for environmental services, resource valuation, resource apportionment; criteria for decision-making (static and dynamic CBA); case studies. Determination of sustainable optimum yields * Environmental Law and institutional framework: Philosophy of law and environmental jurisprudence, environmental policy, and governance, intellectual property rights, community rights, international treaties and conventions and link to national policies on environment Lobbying and advocacy, international conventions and their link to national politics and peace; devolved governments (the constitution and county governments) and environment; case studies * Research methods: Role of research in the development of scientific knowledge; problem identification and project development; problem and objective trees, activity schedules, work plans and budget; application of spatial analysis tools; field techniques; study design, sampling, data collection tools; quantitative and qualitative approaches; computer applications; participatory methods; case studies | |||||||||||||||
| Teaching and learning Methods | |||||||||||||||
| Face to face lectures, supervision, own studies, project writing | |||||||||||||||
| Learning Outcome | |||||||||||||||
| Knowledge Has knowledge on theoretical aspects of -Social cultural dynamics -Environmental Resource Economics: -Environmental Law and institutional framework -Research planning, design and methods Skills: Can apply their knowledge on theories, research planning, design and methods in practice, in particular when doing empirical research on decentralization, natural resource conflicts and livelihoods Competences Through project writing, the PhD students will demonstrate that they can make realistic plans and designs for their own research | |||||||||||||||
| Course Literature | |||||||||||||||
| The Phd students already have lists of literature, which can be made available to others upon request. | |||||||||||||||
| Course Material | |||||||||||||||
| The literature constitutes of more than 1200 pages made available through Absalon and in dropbox. | |||||||||||||||
| Course Coordinator | |||||||||||||||
| Iben Nathan, in@life.ku.dk, Forest & Landscape Denmark/Unit of Forestry, Phone: 353-31736 Jens Friis Lund, jens@life.ku.dk, Forest & Landscape Denmark/Unit of Forestry, Phone: 353-31767 Jens Emborg, jee@life.ku.dk, Forest & Landscape Denmark/Unit of Forestry, Phone: 353-31744 | |||||||||||||||
| Other Lecturers | |||||||||||||||
| Professor Vibeke Vindeløv; Professor Linda Nielsen; Professor Peter Pagh; Assoc. Prof. Anita Rønne; Assoc. Prof. Helle Overgaard Larsen; Assoc. Prof. Christian Pilegaard Hansen | |||||||||||||||
| Course Fee | |||||||||||||||
| none | |||||||||||||||
| Course Costs | |||||||||||||||
| None | |||||||||||||||
| Type of Evaluation | |||||||||||||||
| - Elaborated written assignment including topics and insights from the course - Mandatory commenting on their PhD-colleagues' written assignments -Written assignment must be assessed as "passed" | |||||||||||||||
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