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| FORE0005-1 | Multifunctional management of forests
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| Duration : | 28h Th, 14h Pr, 6h FT |
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| Substitute(s) : | Philippe Lejeune |
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| Language : | French language |
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| Course contents : | Principles, concepts and application of management methods which concern forested land with emphasis upon the integration approach required to meet the evoluting society's demands. Purposes and foundations of forest management ¿ framework for analysis, synthesis and decision-making. Data collection ¿ site, ecological and economical factors. Use of tools as GIS, site classifications, yields models. Organization of the forest ¿ unit subdivision. Description and forest inventory control. Main planification methods required to manage coppices, coppices with standards, evenaged and unevenaged high forests (contents, structure of plans and illustrative outlines). Determination of the allowable cut (application of area and volume control and combination approaches). Regulation of evenaged forests (case analysis of regulation with various types of age-class distribution). Control method applied to unevenaged forests. Decision-making models useful in multiple-use management. Examples of scenario's building, concertation process between stakeholders and implementation of results in term of ¿target forest¿ Construction of integrated management models taking into account functions as : timber production, soil and water protection, wildlife, recreation and biodiversity. |
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| Course objective : | Focuses on the planning and implementation processes necessary to achieve integrated use of forests and associated natural resources. Provides students with the foundation necessary for the management and administration of a multiresource enterprise.
After completing the course the student is expected to
- analyse how, in a given place, a forest management has to be designed to meet expected objectives regarding different constraints and society demands;
- apply skill and knowledge acquired in other courses (silviculture, forest mensuration, geomatics, forest ecology,..) to the challenges of integrated resource management;
- collect, process and assess the relevance of a large amount of data coming from very different sources;
- apply the tools to ensure sustainable management, understand the different steps of planning processes and evaluate planning alternatives;
- able to be involved in forest-political development and social questions (concertation, communication,..);
- able to consider all timber management decisions in the context of a large, socially defined, multiple use management problems, including the main stakeholders;
- integrate a working knowledge of the uses of several management tools (decision analysis, simulation). |
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| Prerequisites : | -- GF212 - Geomatics
-- GF201b - Forest mensuration and forest inventory |
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| Organization : | Lectures : 28h
Practical Works : 14h
Field-study trip and visits : 6h |
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| Written notes : | Lecture notes
JOHNSON D.R. , GRAYSON A.J., BRADLEY R.T., [1967]- Forest Planning
LEUSCHNER W. (1984) - Introduction to forest resource management
RONDEUX J. (1999) - La mesure des arbres et des peuplements forestiers. Presses agronomiques de Gembloux, 522 p.
DAVIS L.S., JOHNSON K.N. (1987) - Forest management. 3rd Edition.
BOUSSON E.[2003]- Gestion forestière intégrée |
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| Assessment : | Written examination (10%)
Oral examination (60%)
Personal report (30%) |
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