Natural Resources Management

Recommended Prerequisites

Not applied.

Teaching Methods

Seminars, in various areas of natural and cultural resources, and workshops based on the concept "Pro Action Café" will be designed in order to have an active participation of the students in the teaching and learning processes. The classes will be complemented with laboratory and field activities, whose purpose will be to acquire knowledge on multidisciplinary techniques to assess the complexity of the components related to ecosystem detection of disturbances as well as the conservation, enhancement, planning and natural resources management.

Learning Outcomes

In this interdisciplinary curricular unit, students should:

1.know the ecological basis to understand the procedures related to management/monitoring/planning/conservation of terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems/endogenous resources valorisation

2.recognise the importance of edaphic/freshwater organisms as indicators of the ecosystems quality

3.integrate/apply theoretical-practical knowledge to solve problems/conflicts associated with the resources sustainability

4.know the national/global natural resources and  ecosystems services

5.evaluate/reflect on the positive/negative aspects of different planning perspectives/natural resources management and on the economic, ethical, social implications

6.develop critical reasoning/self-learning, stimulating creativity and scientific accuracy

7.Develop the skills for analysis, synthesis and to communicate clearly, verbally and in writing, their knowledge to various types of audiences.

Work Placement(s)

No

Syllabus

1.Natural resources and endogenous products

Management, preservation, improvement

Rural spaces, leisure/sport activities

Land use planning of rural spaces, and promoting integrated development

2.Aquatic ecosystems, water resources, conservation

Function and natural engineering on running waters and riparian systems

Macro/micro biodiversity- recovery, regulation, control, monitoring

3.Terrestrial ecosystems, resources, forest protection

Biotechnology

Recovery of burnt areas

Diversity and functionality of macro/microbiota

Ecotoxicology and ecological risk assessment

Monitoring.

4.Genetics and plant breeding

Conventional/biotechnical methods

5.Land-use planning, legislation, forest planning

6.Models of governance of forest space and articulation with the agro-wood-pasture systems

7.Ecosystems services in the wood pasture areas

8.Ecosystem services economic assessment

Revealed and declared preferences.

Head Lecturer(s)

Professor a Definir - Instituto de Investigação Interdisciplinar

Assessment Methods

Assessment
Other: 40.0%
Synthesis work: 60.0%

Bibliography

Allan, J. D., & Castillo, M. M.. (2007). Stream ecology: structure and function of running waters. New York: Springer Science & Business Media.

Bowyer, J. L., Shmulsky, R., & Haygreen, J.G. (2007). Forest products and wood science (5th ed.). Blackwell Publishing.

Dorman, T., Frey, M., Wright, J., Wardynski, B., Smith, J., Tucker, B.,,… Bishop, K. (2013). San Antonio river basin low impact development technical design guidance manual, v1. San Antonio, TX: San Antonio River Authority.

White, T.L., Adams, W.T., & Neale, D.B. (2007). Forest genetics. UK: CABI Publishing.

Young, R. A., & Giese, R. L. (2003). Introduction to forest ecosystem science and management (3rd ed.). Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons.

Artigos científicos relevantes de cada um dos tópicos

Relevant research papers of each topic.