The first year consists of a joint first semester in Copenhagen, and of a partly joint second semester either in Padua or Dresden
All students come to Copenhagen for their first semester (30 ECTS). Then, students move to either Dresden or Padua for their second semester, which begins with a joint field course (6 ECTS) where all students and teachers from all five Consortium partners participate. The aim of the first study year is to provide a thorough and broad introduction to global forestry, however with an emphasis on “Management for multiple forest ecosystem services” in Dresden and “Landscape restoration and forest resources protection” in Padua.
Semester 1 at Copenhagen
Modules offered during semester 1 at Copenhagen:
- 7.5 ECTS
- Copenhagen
- Year 1
- Semester 1
- Compulsory
- Integrative/inter/transdisciplinary
Content
The course will introduce students to theories and key concepts about how human activities impact forest carbon sinks through land use, land-use change and forestry activities. It will provide knowledge on assessing global deforestation and forest degradation and the accompanying greenhouse (…) Read more
- 7.5 ECTS
- Copenhagen
- Year 1
- Semester 1
- Compulsory
- Integrative/inter/transdisciplinary
Content
The course provides you with a people-oriented global approach to sustainable environmental resource management, combining readings with exercises. Emphasis is on the relationships between people, environmental resource use, and conservation, with a particular focus on forests. The course (…) Read more
- 7.5 ECTS
- Copenhagen, E-learning
- Year 1
- Semester 1
- Compulsory
- Integrative/inter/transdisciplinary
Content
The course is a preparatory course for the Global Forestry Field Course: the focus is on developing a minor research project (that will then be implemented during the subsequent field course in a low or middle-income country in the Global South).
The course includes
- an (…) Read more
- 7.5 ECTS
- Copenhagen
- Year 1
- Semester 1
- Compulsory
- Integrative/inter/transdisciplinary
Content
This course introduces you to sustainable forest management’s biophysical and political foundations. Emphasis is on the biological definitions and silvicultural systems of sustainable forest management, including why middle and low-income countries often fail to implement them. The learning (…) Read more
Semester 2: option at Dresden
with an emphasis on “Management for multiple forest ecosystem services”
Modules offered during semester 2 at Dresden:
- 7 ECTS
- Dresden
- Year 1
- Semester 2
- Elective
- Other
Content
Economics (part A): Economic principles of human actions demonstrated by the forest rotation problem and other questions of even-aged forest stands, and problems encountered during activities in uneven-aged forest stands. Investigating human interactions by means of environmental (…) Read more
- 7 ECTS
- Dresden
- Year 1
- Semester 2
- Elective
- Environmental sciences
Content
Ecosystem concept as an auxiliary for silviculture and for biodiversity conservation. Natural distribution and classification of forest and plant formations, as well as fauna in the tropics, as well as methods for their assessment. Important silviculture systems with their methods and techniques (…) Read more
- 6 ECTS
- E-learning
- Year 1
- Semester 2
- Compulsory
- Environmental sciences, Humanities, Integrative/inter/transdisciplinary, Tool
Content
Students will gain experiences with field-level realities in a medium or low-income country, and develop and implement a minor research project related to sustainable global forestry. The course includes a field trip to a medium or low-income country (typically two to three weeks). The course (…) Read more
- 7 ECTS
- Dresden
- Year 1
- Semester 2
- Elective
- Environmental sciences
Content
- Major factors and processes in plant-soil systems in context with watersheds
- land-use conflicts referring to soil and water resources
- interdisciplinary concepts for sustainable watershed (…) Read more
- 7 ECTS
- Dresden
- Year 1
- Semester 2
- Elective
- Environmental sciences
Content
Ecosystem concept as an auxiliary for silviculture and for biodiversity conservation. Natural distribution and classification of forest and plant formations, as well as fauna in the tropics, as well as methods for their assessment. Important silviculture systems with their methods and techniques (…) Read more
- 10 ECTS
- Dresden
- Year 1
- Semester 2
- Compulsory
- Environmental sciences
Content
Methodical approaches of management analyses for subsistence oriented farm households; about forest/agroforestry enterprises up to large commercial industrial enterprises in the tropics. Partnership models for forest management, like co-operatives, community forests, co-management (…) Read more
Semester 2: option at Padua
with an emphasis on “Landscape restoration and forest resources protection”
Modules offered during semester 2 at Padua:
- 6 ECTS
- Padua
- Year 1
- Semester 2
- Compulsory
- Environmental sciences
Content
The aim of the course is to provide students with basic knowledge of animal ecology, to understand the impacts of global change on biodiversity in forest ecosystems, with a particular focus on the impacts of exotic animal species. The content of the course is relevant for students interested in (…) Read more
- 6 ECTS
- Padua
- Year 1
- Semester 2
- Compulsory
- Environmental sciences
Content
This course is designed to familiarize students with the basic concepts and techniques of restoration ecology, specifically applied to assist in the recovery of main ecosystem services in degraded forest ecosystems due to the occurrence of natural or anthropic disturbances, or alterations in the (…) Read more
- 6 ECTS
- Padua
- Year 1
- Semester 2
- Compulsory
- Environmental sciences
Content
The course introduces the students to:
- the meaning of climate in a broad time scale perspective;
- the role of different factors in regulating the climate;
- the different tools and approaches to study climate change;
- the effect of climate change on forests (…) Read more
- 6 ECTS
- E-learning
- Year 1
- Semester 2
- Compulsory
- Environmental sciences, Humanities, Integrative/inter/transdisciplinary, Tool
Content
Students will gain experiences with field-level realities in a medium or low-income country, and develop and implement a minor research project related to sustainable global forestry. The course includes a field trip to a medium or low-income country (typically two to three weeks). The course (…) Read more
- 6 ECTS
- Padua
- Year 1
- Semester 2
- Compulsory
- Environmental sciences
Content
Students will be able to analyze the effects related to climate and land use change in highly populated regions (some case studies in the world will be considered). They will learn how to manage the main environmental data in a GIS environment, focusing on data related to hydro-geomorphological (…) Read more
- 6 ECTS
- Padua
- Year 1
- Semester 2
- Compulsory
- Environmental sciences
Content
The course aims at presenting, critically discussing and implementing the regulatory framework of international and European regulations to planning, management, and assessment of protected areas.
The course is based on the following modules:
- Regulatory framework, objectives (…) Read more
- 6 ECTS
- Padua
- Year 1
- Semester 2
- Compulsory
- Environmental sciences
Content
The course will present the basic concepts and practices of forest operation within the context of managing forest resources and ecosystems sustainability focusing on the timber harvesting process and the interactions between logging, roads and transport systems both in close-to-nature forests (…) Read more
