LFKK10390U Design by Management
Part 1
- Urban woodlands and silviculture.
- Woodland and stand types, their structures and dynamics as affected by silviculture
- Nature-Based forest management and Forest Development types as a planning tool
- Stand establishment and tending including soil classification
and species choice.
- Project focussing on problems and dilemmas in relation to trees
and shrubs in an close to urban context
Part 2
Potentials and problems of urban nature areas such as parks, beaches, polders, meadows, cultural heritage, historical gardens, infrastructure landscapes, retrofited dumps and gravel pits, cemeteries with main emphasis on trees and other woody species.
- Original design intensions,
- Perception of future development,
- Design of strategies.
- Management plans and interventions
- Project focussing on problems and dilemmas in relation to trees
and shrubs in an urban context.
Knowledge
The course aims to give the students an in-depth understanding of
the growth dynamics and interaction of trees and other woody
species in relation to site conditions including succession
processes in woodlands.
Skills
This understanding is used to accomplish desired functional,
aesthetical, sustainable and ecological goals in managing
parks, woodlands and other urban nature areas by applying adequate
management methods and tools.
Competencies
Design by management operates with the original intension of
close-to-nature forest management with the main principle of making
use of natural processes in management thus advancing goal
fulfilment and reducing management costs. The municipal green
areas are put into a similar context and living up to the idea
of "gaining more for less".The students will be able to
analyse a specific management unit (forest, woodland, park ect.),
appraise its future development, and suggest appropriate
interventions to guide the system in the desired direction. The
course provides an academic perspective to the management of
nature, woodlands and urban landscapes with main emphasis on
trees.
- Category
- Hours
- Exam
- 20
- Lectures
- 30
- Practical exercises
- 120
- Preparation
- 82
- Project work
- 160
- Total
- 412
As
an exchange, guest and credit student - click here!
Continuing Education - click here!
- Credit
- 15 ECTS
- Type of assessment
- Oral examination, 30 min...
- Aid
- All aids allowed
- Marking scale
- 7-point grading scale
- Censorship form
- External censorship
Criteria for exam assesment
See learning outcome.
Course information
- Language
- English
- Course code
- LFKK10390U
- Credit
- 15 ECTS
- Level
- Full Degree Master
- Duration
- 1 block
- Placement
- Block 2
- Schedule
- A (Tues 8-12 + Thurs 8-17) And C (Mon 13-17 + Wednes 8-17)
- Course capacity
- Ingen begrænsning
- Continuing and further education
- Study board
- Study Board of Geosciences and Management
Contracting department
- Department of Geoscience and Natural Resource Management
Course responsibles
- Torben Dam (4-78736865446d6b72326f7932686f)
Lecturers
Torben Ebbesen Dam, toda@life.ku.dk, Forest & Landscape
Denmark/Unit of Landscape, Phone: 353-31797
Jørgen Bo Larsen, jbl@life.ku.dk, Forest & Landscape
Denmark/Forestry and wood products, Phone: 353-31688