| Forest & Landscape | |||||||||||||||
| Earliest Possible Year | BSc. 3 year to MSc. 2 year | ||||||||||||||
| Duration | Two blocks | ||||||||||||||
| Credits | 7.5 (ECTS) | ||||||||||||||
| Course Level | Joint BSc and MSc | ||||||||||||||
| Examination | Final Examination oral examination All aids allowed Description of Examination: The exam will take the form of a presentation of the essay - followed by a discussion based on the essay and course readings. Weight: Presentation and discussion will be assigned equal weights: 50/50 7-point scale, internal examiner | ||||||||||||||
| Requirement For Attending Exam | The exam will be conditioned by the submission of an essay (2.500-3000 words) within one of several pre-defined subjects. | ||||||||||||||
| Organisation of Teaching | The course is held outside the block structure. Lectures are mainly held Wednesdays from 17.00-19.00 (Auditorium 1.01, Bülowsvej 17) - starting September 17th. Additionally an International Seminar is held on the 21st of November from 9.15-16.00. | ||||||||||||||
| Block Placement | Outside schedule Week Structure: Outside schedule | ||||||||||||||
| Teaching Language | English | ||||||||||||||
| Restrictions | 40 | ||||||||||||||
| Course Contents | |||||||||||||||
| The relationship between global processes related to climate, markets, urban-rural relationships, public policy on the one side and changes affecting the local landscape is the focus of this course. The term 'Landscape' is used instead of 'local area' or 'local place' because it (in its broad and widely adapted meaning encompasses social as well as natural patterns and processes. The lectures are given by faculty from different scientific disciplines with the following lecture titles: Sep-17 Global change and local landscapes, introductory lecture, Jørgen Primdahl and Anette Reenberg. Sep-24 Globalised Agro-ecosystems fast forward, rewind, pause or play, John Porter. Oct-01 Fresh water resources, international policy and local uses, Henrik Vejre. Oct-08 The local agricultural landscape -between market liberalisation and sustainable development, Jørgen Primdahl. Oct-22 Forestry, between land use intensification and sustainable development, Bo Larsen. Oct-29 The nomadic landscape: People in a changing Artic environment, Kirsten Hastrup. Nov-03 Urbanisation and global change, Hans Thor Andersen. Nov-12 EC-legislation on nature protection and local landscape, Peter Pagh. Nov-19 Globalization - an environmental economic perspective, Jørgen Birk Mortensen. Nov-26 Globalization and land change science: Land transformation chains, Anette Reenberg. Dec-03 Local and global patterns of biodiversity in a changing world, Carsten Rahbek. Dec-10 The local landscape in a broadening context - historical perspectives, Bo Fritzbøger. A similar range of issues is dealt with on a full day seminar (November 21) with an international panel of lectures | |||||||||||||||
| Teaching And Learning Methods | |||||||||||||||
| The course is organised as a series of lectures and a full day seminar. Each lecture will consist of two 30 minutes presentations and following by a discussion session on 30 minutes. The readings for the lectures will consist of one to two articles or equivalent papers suggested by the lecturer. The full day seminar will be organised as two sessions each with 30 minutes presentations and each session finalised with a 30 minutes discussion session. The students who wish to complete the course with 7.5 credits must write and submit an essay at the length of 2.500-3.000 words. A short number of essay subjects will be presented at the beginning of the course. The essays must be within one of these predefined subjects and make reference to a substantial proportion of the readings associated with the lectures. | |||||||||||||||
| Learning Outcome | |||||||||||||||
| Learning outcome The overall objective of the course is to present the students for multidisciplinary approaches to globalisation with a focus on the consequences for local landscapes. Globalisation affects local landscapes in multiple ways and adequate analysis, assessment and policy formulation will require a transdiciplinary approach. The course provides the students with an outlook to the various diciplines working with the interactions between globalisation and the local landscape at the University of Copenhagen as welle as to the State-of-the-art in international research. The target group is students from all faculties at University of Copenhagen who are working with globalisation, land use and landscapes in their programmes or through their thesis work. The students are invited to engage themselves in multidiciplinary reflections on the process of globalisation and the local landscape and combine the prespectives from several diciplines in their essays written on the course. Following completion of the course the student is expected to be able to: Knowledge - describe the major processes of globalisation of relevance to landscape and land use and their local effects. Skills - deal analytically with key concepts of globalisation, their relationships and effects on land use and landscape. - dissemination in writing on issues of globalisation and local landscapes. Competances - integrate different disciplinary approaches to globalisation. - work independently to condence, present and discuss perspectives from scientific literature | |||||||||||||||
| Course Litterature | |||||||||||||||
| A list of litterature to supplement the lectures will be available at the start of the course. The litterature will mainly consist of journal articles dealing with issues of Globalisation and the local landscape within the various diciplines represented by the lecturers. | |||||||||||||||
| Course Coordinator | |||||||||||||||
| Jørgen Primdahl, jpr@life.ku.dk, Forest & Landscape Denmark/Urban and landscape studies, Phone: 35331822 Thomas Sick Nielsen, sick@life.ku.dk, Forest & Landscape Denmark/Urban and landscape studies, Phone: 35331830 | |||||||||||||||
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