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| FORE0034-1 | Tropical forest update
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| Duration : | 24h Th |
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| Lecturer : | Jean-Louis Doucet, Adeline Fayolle |
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| Coordinator : | Jean-Louis Doucet |
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Language(s) of instruction :
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| French language |
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Organisation and examination :
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| Teaching in the first semester, review in January |
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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. Land tenure, land use changes (including land grabbing)
3. Management of protected areas
4. Forest certification (FSC, PEFC) and legality (FLEGT)
5. High Conservation Value Forests (HCVF) and Intact Forest Landscapes (IFL)
6. Forest regeneration
7. The Carbon market and REDD +
Other topics will be addressed according to the current events. |
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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
- 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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| Recommended readings :
- 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.
- 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 |
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Assessment methods and criteria :
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| The student will present a topic during the examination session. He will have 15 minutes and then be questioned for 15 minutes on this or other topics covered during the course. |
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Work placement(s) :
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Organizational remarks :
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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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| Items online : |
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| MyULg |
| Les notes seront en ligne sur MyULg |
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