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Forest and Landscape

Expert advisor

» Prof. Harald Bugmann

The specialisation in Forest and Landscape deals with fundamental aspects of design, use and development of long term, existing, and large-scale ecosystems. The emphasis is on the understanding and dynamics of ecological processes typical for forests and natural landscapes as well as their interactions with human usage. Important themes are the interrelationships between land use and biodiversity, reaction of forests to environmental changes, the fragmentation of habitats, concepts for the sustainable production of the renewable resource of wood, concepts for guaranteeing ecosystem goals (protection from natural disasters, reduction of the carbon metabolism, recreation, habitats).
  

 

This specialisation subject leads the students to think analytically about the processes which determine the condition and future development of forests and landscapes and to recognise possibilities for taking specific action. It gives a fundamental understanding of the system components which mark landscape systems

  1. biological-physical structures and functions of the natural environment [natural science focus],
  2. land-use technologies [engineering science focus], and
  3. social structures and functions (socio-cultural framework, economic mechanisms) [state and social science focus].

It combines various time and space scales from the organism level (e.g. trees) to the ecosystem network level (landscape, catchment areas). This complexity requires an understanding of modern methods of ecosystem research, the representation of land use data and social sciences.The system specialisation Forest and Landscape enables an introduction to forest and landscape use that can be later methodically and specifically extended in the Master of Science studies to forestry and landscape management.

 

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