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Study programmes 2012-2013Last update : 18/06/2013
FORE0032-1  Forestry itineraries

Duration :  24h Th, 12h Pr, 12h AUTR
Number of credits :  
Master in Forests and natural Areas Engineering, Professional Focus, 2nd year4
Lecturer :  Hugues Claessens, Marc Dufrêne
Coordinator :  Hugues Claessens
Language(s) of instruction :  
French language
Organisation and examination :  
Teaching in the first semester, review in January
Course contents :  
Part 1 : Tree production systems - Nurseries - afforestation - Christmas tree cultivation - Poplar production - Agroforestry - Short Rotation Coppice
Part 2 : Ecosystemic Services - Théorical bases - Exercise
Learning outcomes of the course :  
The students will be able to manage different types of tree production in forest or agricultural landscale.
They will be able to identify the ecosystemic services and to assess their relative importance in the landscape.
Prerequisites and co-requisites/ Recommended optional programme components :  
Good knowledge in sylviculture
Hard skills in landscape interpretation (geomorphopedology, site analysis,...)
Planned learning activities and teaching methods :  
Lectures Personnal exercise Team Work
Mode of delivery (face-to-face ; distance-learning) :  
Face-to-face
Recommended or required readings :  
Recommended readings following the proposed exercises and team works
Assessment methods and criteria :  
Reports Oral examination (discussion about the reports)
Work placement(s) :  
Organizational remarks :  
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