400006 Thematic Course: Interdisciplinary Land Use and Natural Resource Management

Detaljer
Inst. for Jordbrug og Økologi   77 %
Skov & landskab   23 %
English titleThematic Course: Interdisciplinary Land Use and Natural Resource Management
Tidligst mulig placeringKandidat 1.år til Kandidat 2. år
VarighedEn blok
 
Pointværdi15 (ECTS)
KursustypeKandidatkursus
 
EksamenSluteksamen

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Beskrivelse af eksamen: Oral examination in synopsis delivered before field work and in report on field work

Vægtning: 100%



7-trinsskala, ekstern censur
 
Forudsætninger for indstilling til eksamenMin. 75% participation in excercises. Participation in excursions. Active contribution to groupwork.
 
Rammer for undervisningTeaching divided in lectures, excercises and discussions, student presentations and individual supervision. 2-3 weeks field work in developing country.
 
BlokplaceringBlock 3
Ugestruktur: Outside schedule, Excursion in 4th, 5th and 6th week of course.
 
UndervisningssprogEngelsk
 
Anbefalede forudsætningerFor logistic reasons, students must enrol by October 31st 2008. Participants must hold a relevant bachelor degree leading towards specialisation within rural development, natural resource management and sustainable land use in developing countries.
 
Begrænset deltagerantalNone
 
Kursusindhold
The course contents are:
- Familiarising with theoretical and methodological approaches to interdisciplinary studies of natural resource management and rural livelihoods in developing countries
- Enabling students to apply their own disciplinary skills in interdisciplinary problem-based group work
- Training in field based investigation of concrete topics/problems
- Ensuring exposure to methods from both natural and social science
- Providing students the experience of working with developing country counterparts
- Stimulate reflection on all the above

The course is jointly organised by Faculty of Life Science, Faculty of Natural Sciences and Faculty of Social Sciences at University of Copenhagen and Roskilde University Centre, and attracts students from a range of natural and social science disciplines. Most land use and natural resource management issues in developing countries are best approached interdisciplinary. Hence, the central theme in the course is learning and using interdisciplinary methods and theoretical approaches through problem-oriented field work in a developing country in collaboration with local counterparts. While working with students from other disciplines, students should apply their own disciplinary skills in order to address the identified topics/questions within land use, rural development and natural resource management. Close co-operation with local students will ensure exposure to working in an inter-cultural environment. The course includes training in analysing and developing project proposals; planning and conducting field work; selection and application of data collection methods (e.g. questionnaire design, interview techniques, bio-physical sampling methods, PRA techniques); data recording and processing; and writing field reports. This will allow students to participate effectively in interdisciplinary assignments in developing countries, and serve as a basis for understanding strengths and weaknesses of each student's own discipline, including comparative advantages of academic disciplines relevant to rural livelihoods and natural resource management in developing countries.
The SLUSE programme at the former KVL, KU and RUC have carried out interdisciplinary field courses in collaboration with university counterparts in Malaysia, Thailand and Southern Africa since 1998.
For logistic reasons, students must enrol by October 31st 2008. Check course homepage for more information.
 
Undervisningsform
The course consists of: -Lectures and practicals on natural and social scientific methods and tools used in field work. Theoretical/contextual and regional specific lectures. Theoretical lectures are followed by exercises demonstrating the practical applicability of the central concepts in field work. -Student presentations of key texts. -Group work: Each student will participate in a supervised group. Each group will prepare a synopsis before the field trip, conduct fieldwork, prepare and submit a course report. -2-3 weeks field work in a developing country
 
Målbeskrivelse
The course offers a training experience in selecting, applying and evaluating field methods for natural resource management from an interdisciplinary perspective.

After completing the course the students should be able to:

Knowledge:
- Describe and define central concepts and terms within development and natural resource management
- Show overview of field methods for data collection

Skills:
- Select relevant methods and design of research plan for field study
- Collect and process relevant information in field
- Make judgment of the usefulness of methods and the reliability of collected data as well as the significance of obtained results.

Competences:
- Discuss and compare data obtained by various methods in interdisciplinary field work.
- Make judgment of own interpretation on complex topics and relevance for the investigated communities.

 
Litteraturhenvisninger
A compendium is provided
 
Kursusansvarlig
Andreas de Neergaard, adn@life.ku.dk, Institut for Jordbrugsvidenskab/Plante- og Jordvidenskab, Tlf: 35333499
Thorsten Treue, ttr@life.ku.dk, Skov & Landskab/Økonomi, Politik og Driftsplanlægning, Tlf: 35331759
Torben Birch-Thomsen, tbt@geogr.ku.dk, Institut for Jordbrugsvidenskab/Plante- og Jordvidenskab, Tlf: 3528
Peter Oksen, oksen@ruc.dk, Institut for Jordbrugsvidenskab/Plante- og Jordvidenskab, Tlf: 3528
 
Deltagerbetaling
Participants are required to cover transportation costs and insurances to the field trip destination.
 
Studienævn
Studienævn NSN
 
Kursusbeskrivelsesomfang
forelæsninger12
teoretiske øvelser12
kollokvier24
vejledning10
forberedelse100
ekskursioner153
projektarbejde100
eksamen1

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