Key words
Nature and landscape management, landscape development, measures for management
Objectives
- The student understands the different ecosystems and knows how to manage them, taking into account the diverse and changing visions.
- The student is able to formulate general visions for the management of a specific area, with the specific measures.
Topics
Historic backgrounds of nature and landscape conservation
Visions
Measures
Management of pastures
Management of woods
Management of hedges, forest edges,...
Management of ditches and ponds
Management plans
Prerequisites
Basic knowledge of ecology and nature and environmental management is necessary.
Final Objectives
- The student has an ecological attitude and is able to express and justify this attitude to other people.
- The student is able to gain information independently, to analyse and to synthetisise it.
Materials used
Manual: Hermy, M., de Blust, G., Slootmaekers, M., Natuurbeheer, Davidfonds, Leuven, 2004, 452 p., ISBN 90-5826-266-9
Beheersplan van een gebied
Study costs
Cost: 95.0 EUR
cost of the course: ± € 45 + costprice course € 50
Study guidance
Permanent possibility to ask questions.
Teaching Methods
Lectures, task and excursions
Assessment
Written exam (3/4) + Task “Evaluation of the nature and landscape management in a nature resort" (1/4).
Lecturer(s)
Sylvie VAN DAMME
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