A specialisation in People and Forests
At the University of Copenhagen, you can specialise in People and Forests.
This specialisation focuses on how and why forests and associated landscapes in medium and low-income countries contribute to local people’s livelihoods and the global community.
Through course work, you will acquire thorough knowledge about local people’s use, dependence on, and governance of forests and the surrounding environment for subsistence and commercial purposes, including how official governance schemes translate into de facto practices.
You will develop skills to select appropriate tools to analyse the biophysical, socio-economic, and political outcomes of official and the resulting actual governance of resources.
As a Global Foresty graduate with the specialisation in People and Forests you will be competent in identifying and discussing the importance of forest and environmental resources to people’s livelihoods in medium and low-income countries, including how decentralised governance can promote local and global sustainable development.
Main aims
If you choose the specialisation in People and Forests, you will:
- Obtain a thorough understanding of the conditions of rural livelihoods in a micro and macroeconomic as well as political context
- be able to apply theory, especially on decentralised (participatory) governance, to promote sustainable management of forests and other natural resources in medium and low-income countries.
- develop your intellectual, practical, numeracy and information and communication technology skills within a forest-specific context. You will also hone your interpersonal/teamwork, professional development, and self-management skills
- be equipped for a career in global forestry, development, and related professions requiring the skills to synthesise concepts and ideas and the ability to address the frequently uneasy relationship between local, national, and global objectives of forest governance.
Semester 3
Please note: the curriculum may be subject to change
- 7.5 ECTS
- Copenhagen
- Year 2
- Semester 3
- Optional
- Environmental sciences, Humanities, Integrative/inter/transdisciplinary, Tool
Content
Students can freely choose among a vast array of courses offered at the University of Copenhagen during the first teaching block. Of particular relevance for the specialisation in Livelihoods and Governance are the following courses: Political Ecology (7,5 ECTS) Appli (…) Read more- 7.5 ECTS
- Copenhagen
- Year 2
- Semester 3
- Compulsory
- Integrative/inter/transdisciplinary
Content
You can read the full course description here. (…) Read more- 7.5 ECTS
- Copenhagen
- Year 2
- Semester 3
- Compulsory
- Integrative/inter/transdisciplinary
Content
You can read the full course description here. (…) Read more- 7.5 ECTS
- Copenhagen
- Year 2
- Semester 3
- Compulsory
- Integrative/inter/transdisciplinary
Content
You can read the full course description here. (…) Read moreSemester 4: thesis
- 30 ECTS
- E-learning, Fieldwork site(s), Other
- Year 2
- Semester 4
- Compulsory
- Integrative/inter/transdisciplinary
Content
The MSc Programme in Global Forestry with a specialisation in Livelihoods and Governance includes a thesis corresponding to 30 ECTS, as described in Appendix 2, to the shared curriculum at the Faculty of Science. The thesis must be written within the academic scope of the programme. It mus (…) Read moreWhen does teaching take place? Block and timetable groups
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Teaching for our courses will take place in a given timetable group or possibly a subgroup. Please note that if your course is in timetable group A, this means that the teaching will take place in both subgroups A 1 and A 2.
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