LNAK10083U Rural Livelihoods and Natural Resources Governance
Volume 2013/2014
Education
MSc Programme in Agricultural
Development
MSc Programme in Forests and Livelihoods (SUTROFOR)
Erasmus Mundus - Agris Mundus
MSc Programme in Agriculture
MSc Programme in Forests and Livelihoods (SUTROFOR)
Erasmus Mundus - Agris Mundus
MSc Programme in Agriculture
Content
The course is
concerned with rural livelihoods in a developing country context,
including the linkages between rural livelihoods and natural
resources governance. The focus is on how rural livelihoods are
constructed when capital assets are used in activities that
generate livelihood outcomes. The focus will be on the five capital
asset categories; physical, financial, natural, social and human,
with a particular emphasis on natural capital assets. The course
will illustrate how external factors, in particular natural
resources governance regimes, affect rural peoples’ access to
natural resources and, thereby, their livelihood strategies and
outcomes. In addition to an overview of these subject areas, the
course will focus on tools to understand and analyse rural
livelihoods and linkages with natural resources management, as well
as provide insights on how to critically assess and reflect on
representations of livelihoods, natural resources, and governance
regimes. In addition, students will gain in-depth understanding of
a timely topic within the area of the course through a two-week
intensive case study. The course emphasises that students are
enabled to reflect critically on the complexity of livelihoods and
natural resources governance relations.
Learning Outcome
The aim of the
course is to provide participants with a thorough understanding of
rural livelihoods in a developing country context and to enable
them to identify, characterise, analyse and critically reflect on
linkages between rural livelihoods and natural resources governance
regimes.
After completing the course the students should be able to:
Knowledge:
Understand the complexity of rural livelihoods and principles of livelihoods analysis
Understand and reflect on linkages between rural livelihoods and natural resource governance regimes
Skills:
Apply principles of livelihood analysis
Characterise natural resource governance regimes
Identify linkages between natural resources governance regimes and outcomes and processes of rural livelihoods
Competencies:
Analyse rural livelihoods and natural resource governance in a broader historical and societal context
Critically reflect on and discuss scientific issues in relation to rural livelihoods and natural resources governance
Analyse and communicate scientifically based evidence on rural livelihoods and natural resources governance to various audiences
After completing the course the students should be able to:
Knowledge:
Understand the complexity of rural livelihoods and principles of livelihoods analysis
Understand and reflect on linkages between rural livelihoods and natural resource governance regimes
Skills:
Apply principles of livelihood analysis
Characterise natural resource governance regimes
Identify linkages between natural resources governance regimes and outcomes and processes of rural livelihoods
Competencies:
Analyse rural livelihoods and natural resource governance in a broader historical and societal context
Critically reflect on and discuss scientific issues in relation to rural livelihoods and natural resources governance
Analyse and communicate scientifically based evidence on rural livelihoods and natural resources governance to various audiences
Literature
The course curriculum
consists of state-of-the-art book chapters and journal articles
within the areas of the course that will be made
available during the course.
Academic qualifications
No prior academic
qualifications are needed, yet a bit of knowledge of basic
micro-economic theory is an advantage, as well as some experience
in reading scientific journal articles.
Teaching and learning methods
The teaching is based on a
mixed approach to learning, and learning activities include
lectures, numerical and analytic exercises, student presentations,
a board game, a museum visit, and discussions. Two weeks of the
course are dedicated to an in-depth case study of a topic within
the area of the course in which students will apply the theories
and tools obtained in the course to analyse and present their
analysis of an empirical case.
Workload
- Category
- Hours
- Colloquia
- 25
- Exam
- 20
- Excursions
- 6
- Lectures
- 35
- Practical exercises
- 10
- Preparation
- 100
- Theory exercises
- 10
- Total
- 206
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Exam
- Credit
- 7,5 ECTS
- Type of assessment
- PortfolioThe exam has three components: (1) False-True test; (2) oral presentation of scientific paper and; (3) 12 hour written exam; essay on provided topic - max. 2,000 words, excl. references.
The assessment of the three components are given equal weight in the final grade. - Aid
- Only certain aids allowed
In the False-True test no aids are allowed, for the two other components all aids are allowed.
- Marking scale
- 7-point grading scale
- Censorship form
- No external censorship
- Exam period
- 1 internal assessor
- Re-exam
- If 10 or fewer register for the reexamination the examination form will be oral.
Criteria for exam assesment
See description of 'Learning
outcome'
Course information
- Language
- English
- Course code
- LNAK10083U
- Credit
- 7,5 ECTS
- Level
- Full Degree Master
- Duration
- 1 block
- Placement
- Block 2
- Schedule
- A
- Course capacity
- Maximum 30 participants
- Continuing and further education
- Study board
- Study Board of Natural Resources and Environment
Contracting department
- Department of Food and Resource Economics
Course responsibles
- Jens Friis Lund (4-716c757a47706d797635727c356b72)
Lecturers
Helle Overgaard Larsen
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