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| FORE0034-1 | Tropical forest update
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| Duration : | 24h Th |
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| Lecturer : | Jean‑Louis Doucet |
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Language(s) of instruction :
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| French language |
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Course contents :
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| Tropical forests face a significant deforestation in a context of global change. The course objective is to describe and analyze the main tools currently used to conserve and sustainably manage tropical forests. The various aspects covered are:
1. Indigenous peoples, social and community forestry
2. Biofuels impacts
3. Main trends of the timber trade
4. Forest certification (FSC, PEFC) and legality (FLEGT)
5. The carbon market and REDD
6. High Conservation Value Forests (HCVF) and Intact Forest Landscapes |
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Learning outcomes of the course :
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| At the end of the course, students should be able to:
- Understand and analyze the major issues relating to the protection and management of tropical forests
- Analyze the causes of deforestation
- Know the major trends of tropical timber trade
- Advice a forest company that wishes to be certified
- Produce a simple management plan for a community forest
- Understand the issues related to the carbon market |
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Prerequisites and co-requisites/ Recommended optional programme components :
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| FORE0009-1. Sustainable forest management |
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Planned learning activities and teaching methods :
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| The course will be in modular form. Each module will involve an expert on the subject. |
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Mode of delivery (face-to-face ; distance-learning) :
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| Face-to-face and documents reading |
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Recommended or required readings :
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| - Doucet, J.-L., & Vermeulen, C. (2011). Des forêts africaines à gérer durablement. Journal des Ingénieurs (Le), (132), 18-21.
http://hdl.handle.net/2268/94913
- FAO. (2008). La situation mondiale de l'alimentation et de l'agriculture. Les biocarburants : perspectives, risques, opportunités. ORGANISATION DES NATIONS UNIES POUR L'ALIMENTATION ET L'AGRICULTURE. Rome, 2008.
- Vermeulen, C., & Doucet, J.-L. (2006). Strategies nouvelles et recompositions sociales autour de la faune dans le Bassin du Congo. Biotechnologie, Agronomie, Société et Environnement [= BASE], 10(3).
http://hdl.handle.net/2268/21887
Vermeulen, C., & Doucet, J.-L. (Eds.). (2008). Les premières forêts communautaires du Gabon : Récits d'une expérience pilote. Sainte-Ode, Belgique: Impribeau.
http://hdl.handle.net/2268/21913
- Meunier, Q., Federspiel, M., Moumbogou, C., Grégoire, B., Doucet, J.-L., & Vermeulen, C. (2011). The first community forests of Gabon : towards sustainable local forest management ? Nature et Faune, 25(2), 40-45.
http://hdl.handle.net/2268/96910
- Vermeulen, C., Schippers, C., Ndouna, A. A., Bracke, C., & Doucet, J.-L. (2009). De nouveaux enjeux sur l'espace : la délimitation des premières forêts communautaires au Gabon. International Journal of Biological and Chemical Sciences, 3(5), 1171-1181.
http://hdl.handle.net/2268/31082
- Vermeulen, C., Julve Larrubia, C., Doucet, J.-L., & Monticelli, D. (2009). Community hunting in logging concessions: towards a management model for Cameroon's dense forests. Biodiversity & Conservation, 18(10), 2705-2718.
http://hdl.handle.net/2268/22354 |
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Assessment methods and criteria :
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| Oral presentation of a subject to be define |
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Contacts :
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| DOUCET Jean-Louis (Professor)
Laboratoire de Foresterie des Régions tropicales et subtropicales
Unité de Gestion des Ressources forestières et des Milieux naturels
Gembloux Agro-Bio Tech
Passage des Déportés, 2
5030 Gembloux
+ 32 81 622342
jldoucet@ulg.ac.be |
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