Ecosystem Management, 15.0 Credits
About the course
The course critically reviews the goals, measures, and scientific foundations of ecosystem management for conservation. Such management is a societal enterprise, and therefore the study of human dimensions is important. How could effective conservation management be pursued in a socioeconomic context? Which stakeholders are important and what are their values? The professional roles of ecologists in ecosystem management are addressed. Concepts and measures in management, restoration, and compensation in different ecosystems are described and discussed. The importance of landscape scale processes is discussed in depth. A comprehensive group project is included, using literature and interviews to describe and discuss conservation management of a specific ecosystem and a specific organism group. In a number of daylong excursions, real world conservation measures in, for example, boreal forests and rivers are demonstrated in the field.
Level of Education: Advanced
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Dep of Ecology and Environmental Science
