Climate Change and Forestry: Monitoring and Policies
Course content
The first part of the course deals with climate change risks, mitigation, and adaptation in relation to forestry. It also introduces the concept of forest carbon projects and associated terminology such as additionality, permanence, leakage, and co-benefits. The second part of the course introduces global policies and voluntary initiatives to reduce emissions; particular attention is paid to reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation and enhancing forest carbon stocks in developing countries (REDD+). In the last part of the course, students write a supervised term paper, on one of the themes presented during the course.
MSc Programme in Environmental Science
MSc Programme in Forest and Nature Management
This course focuses on enabling students’ ability to apply
scientific knowledge and reasoning to critically assess and discuss
climate change and forestry with particular emphasis on monitoring
mechanisms and policies
Knowledge: Understand key contemporary issues related to climate
change and forestry, including forest-dependency, deforestation,
national and global forest policy and processes, and the potential
of using market based mechanisms to achieve sustainable forest
management
Skills:
Apply principles, theories and frameworks on climate change and
forestry. Make judgment on the quality of scientific publications.
Communicate clearly, concisely and confidently in written format
Competences:
The students obtain (i) knowledge about climate change, forests and
livelihood relationships, (ii) ability to critically assess and
discuss discourses and evidence in this area, (iii) ability to
assess how science is used in policy debates, and (iv) ability and
experience in interacting and discussing in professional
forums.
The course is entirely based on interactions in virtual space. Each theme is structured as a standard format e-module: (i) students study provided topic literature; texts and problems are continuously discussed online with module responsible faculty, (ii) students online discuss exercises with each other, facilitated by course responsible faculty and specially invited resource persons, and (iii) the students interact with supervisors on the term paper.
The course draws on basic elements of economic theory and
management of renewable natural resources all or part of which are
introduced in a wide range of undergraduate programmes.
Academic qualifications equivalent to a BSc degree is
recommended.
- ECTS
- 7,5 ECTS
- Type of assessment
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Continuous assessmentStudents eligible to participate in the exam will be assessed according to (i) their completion of exercises throughout the course, and (ii) a supervised term paper.
Weight: Completion of exercises count 2/3 of the final mark and the term paper 1/3.
The final grade is calculated as the weighted average of the results from the part-examinations. - Aid
- All aids allowed
- Marking scale
- 7-point grading scale
- Censorship form
- No external censorship
More than one internal examiner
Criteria for exam assessment
To obtain the grade 12 the student must fullfil the Learning Outcome
Single subject courses (day)
- Category
- Hours
- Preparation
- 60
- Theory exercises
- 20
- Project work
- 111
- Guidance
- 10
- Exam
- 5
- English
- 206
Kursusinformation
- Language
- English
- Course number
- NIFK14037U
- ECTS
- 7,5 ECTS
- Programme level
- Full Degree Master
- Duration
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1 block
- Schedulegroup
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This is an online course run across seven European universities. The workload corresponds to 7.5 ECTS.
- Capacity
- No limits
- Studyboard
- Study Board of Natural Resources, Environment and Animal Science
Contracting department
- Department of Food and Resource Economics
Contracting faculty
- Faculty of Science
Course Coordinators
- Niels Strange (3-74797a466f6c787534717b346a71)
- Thorsten Treue (3-7a7a78466f6c787534717b346a71)
Teacher
University of Padova faculty will teach the non-term paper part of the course.
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