A specialization in Management and Policy
The Technical University Dresden delivers the Global Forestry specialization in Management and Policy, with an emphasis on actors and forest governance.
The specialization focuses on the influence of key actors and institutions on forest outcomes around the globe. It especially provides insights into the multi-level and multi-sector system governing forests internationally and nationally. It addresses types of actors and institutions in global and regional multilateralism, as well as at national, sub-national and local landscape scales. In terms of content, the specialization equips students with theoretical as well as practical knowledge of key institutions and actors in global forestry. This includes International Organisations, iNGOs, transnational organisations as well as the full set of public and private actors in national forest governance settings, including their interests and power capabilities of formal and informal nature.
The specialization further introduces the multi-level and multi-sector aspects of global forests, including claims from e.g. agribusiness, mining, logging, biodiversity protection, local and tribal groups, infrastructure, and investors at different scales. It enables students to identify resulting forest-related conflicts at multiple scales, the underlying interests of key actors, as well as to develop communication strategies and tools for addressing them with the different competing actors. Elective options provide the students with the opportunity to complement the specialization with their personal preferences.
Main aims
- Graduate individuals who have a thorough understanding of the mechanisms, instruments and institutions governing global forests at global, regional, national as well as sub-national landscape scales
- Graduate individuals who have a thorough understanding of the key actors engaged in the governance of forests around the globe, including their interests, capabilities to act, and resulting conflicts across multiple scales
- Develop students’ skills on forest multilateralism as well as cases from the Global South
- Develop students’ intellectual, practical, communication, ICT, interpersonal / teamwork, self-management and professional development skills, in an actor-centred manner and Global South or multilateral contexts
- Equip students for a career in the broad field of global forestry, especially in development cooperation, International Organizations, forest multilateralism and diplomacy and other professions requiring an ability to synthesise concepts and ideas and to take a holistic view on the conflictive interests of key actors at local, national, regional and global scales of forest governance.
Semester 3
- 5 ECTS
- Dresden
- Year 2
- Semester 3
- Compulsory
- Integrative/inter/transdisciplinary, Environmental sciences
Content
- Designing research for SDG impact in intercultural (…) Read more
- 5 ECTS
- Dresden
- Year 2
- Semester 3
- Compulsory
- Integrative/inter/transdisciplinary
Content
- Forest governance in regional contexts
- multilateral and bilateral forest governance initiatives ( e.g. the Tropics (such as Amazonia, Central Africa, and South as well as South-East Asia)
- effects of international initiatives on local (…) Read more
- 5 ECTS
- Dresden
- Year 2
- Semester 3
- Elective
- Environmental sciences
Content
Management systems for natural forest management. Elements for planning, implementation, monitoring and controlling. Management strategies, using decision-theoretical models. Management of various forest formations, regions, sustainability units and forest (…) Read more
- 5 ECTS
- Dresden
- Year 2
- Semester 3
- Elective
- Environmental sciences
Content
- design and program (…) Read more
- 5 ECTS
- Dresden
- Year 2
- Semester 3
- Elective
- Environmental sciences
Content
- forest-based value chains
- methods related to bio-economy, live-cycle assessments, CSR & business ethics, deforestation-free supply chains
- business models for carbon sequestration by (…) Read more
- 5 ECTS
- Dresden
- Year 2
- Semester 3
- Compulsory
- Environmental sciences
Content
Methods to analyse problems and strengths, to identify objectives; methods and tools for project and program planning, the implementation of which and monitoring as well as impact assessments in developing and emerging countries, including the project environment, stakeholders, project economy (…) Read more
Semester 4: thesis
- 30 ECTS
- Dresden, Fieldwork site(s)
- Year 2
- Semester 4
- Compulsory
- Environmental sciences
Content
The 4th semester is fully covered by the elaboration of the thesis (27 credits for the Master thesis and 3 credits for the final public colloquium).
The entrance requirement is a successful module examination of the first to third semester.
The Master thesis comprises original (…)
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