LNAK10100U Thematic Course II: Rural Landscape – Management and Planning
MSc Programme in Biology
The course embraces rural landscape management with emphasis on
ends, means and solutions in management and planning projects. The
first part of the course includes lectures, exercises and seminars
concerning landscape processes and functions. Issues dealt with in
the lectures and seminars include:
• Landscape processes related to water and soil (nutrient fluxes in
the landscape)
• The cultural landscape – current change patterns related to
agriculture, recreation and residence and implications for public
policy and planning
• Farmers’ and other key agents’ attitudes and practices concerning
land use, cultural heritage, habitat management and aesthetical
values
• Spatial planning. Design and implementations of spatial plans
dealing with conflict management as well as place making issues
• The legal framework, planning functions and processes
The project part of the course starts with a three days excursion
to a municipality and a regional section of the Nature Agency with
the aims of getting insights to current management and planning
tasks and introducing potential student projects.
With points of departure in the municipality visited, the students
form project groups and propose a project problem to be approved.
The project work is usually carried out in groups of 3-5 students
with different disciplinary background.
Aims
The overall aim is to gain hands on experiences with problem based
management and planning of rural landscapes. During the course the
student will be will be trained in problem analyses, policy
analyses (design and implementation of policy, plans, projects).
Learning Outcome
After completing this course the student must be able to:
Knowledge:
• Understand the basic natural processes and social functions
maintaining and changing rural landscapes with a focus on North
European Landscapes
• Understand current change patterns, their underlying driving
forces and the associated management problems, available
instruments and operational solutions
• Demonstrate insights into the relationships between the primary
agents (farmers, forest owners, public owner, foundations etc.),
the landscape system (functions, patterns, character) and public
policy interventions
Skills:
• Communicate landscape problems in participatory processes with
owners and other stakeholders
• Apply policy analytical skills in analysing/identifying
intervention objectives, alternative regulation instruments and
implementation strategies
• Apply analytical skills in diagnosing natural and cultural
conditions of the landscape including characterisations of nature,
biodiversity, ecosystem services, heritage values and the overall
landscape character
• Asses the overall impacts of specific policy interventions and
propose ex post evaluations.
Competences
• Multi-disciplinary cooperation in problem based landscape
management processes
• Synthesize multilayer types of (imperfect) information into
operational solutions for landscape management
projects.
Primdahl, J. and Swaffield, S. ed. (2010) Globalisation and
Agricultural Landscapes. Change Patterns and Policy Trends in
Developed Countries. Cambridge University Press. (Selected
chapters)
More selected texts (to be identified)
- Category
- Hours
- Colloquia
- 30
- Excursions
- 30
- Guidance
- 20
- Lectures
- 20
- Preparation
- 30
- Project work
- 282
- Total
- 412
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- Credit
- 15 ECTS
- Type of assessment
- Oral examination, 20 minuttesWritten assignmentThematic reports must be submitted after 4 four weeks. Presentation of the project report precedes the oral exam.
- Exam registration requirements
- Thematic reports and project report must have been submitted.
- Aid
- All aids allowed
- Marking scale
- 7-point grading scale
- Censorship form
- External censorship
Criteria for exam assesment
The analytical and synthesizing skills (see 'leaning outcomes above) demostrated in the reports and final projectd constitute the evaluation criteriaescribed
Course information
- Language
- English
- Course code
- LNAK10100U
- Credit
- 15 ECTS
- Level
- Full Degree Master
- Duration
- 1 block
- Placement
- Block 4
- Schedule
- A (Tues 8-12 + Thurs 8-17) And B (Mon 8-12 + Tues 13-17 + Fri 8-12)
- Course capacity
- 40
- Continuing and further education
- Study board
- Study Board of Geosciences and Management
Contracting departments
- Department of Geoscience and Natural Resource Management
- Department of Biology
Course responsibles
- Jørgen Primdahl (3-707678466f6d7434717b346a71)
Lecturers
Henrik Vejre
Teis Kragh
Kaj Sand-Jensen