Management of Forest Resources

Silviculture, Forest Inventory, GIS Systems, Spatial planning. 

This curricular unit is structured in theoretical and practical classes

This UC has an integrative dimension where knowledge about the key components about forest management and planning are provided to the student. In the end of the course the student should be able to:

Module 1:

(1) Understand the key issues faced by today’s forest managers, in particular the balance between economic production and provision of socially valuable goods and services;

(2) Development of information needed to support stand-level and forest-level management planning processes; (3) To know the basic methodologies to develop a natural resource management plan;

Module 2:

(4) Be able to develop and write a forest management plan.

Module 1 :Development of information to support temporal and spatial decisions in forest management and planning; Estimation and projection of stand and forest conditions Classical models for forest management; ; Forest and natural resource sustainability and multifunctionality. Components of a forest management project at forest level.

Module 2 : Realisation of an integrative project in which the student will apply the knowledge acquired in the formulation of management strategies at forest level.

• - Plano de Gestão - 50.0%
• - Exame escrito - 50.0%

• - Modulo 1 Teste escrito - 50.0%
• - Modulo 2 Plano de Gestão - 50.0%

NAO

Bettinger, P., Boston, K., Siry, J., & Grebner, D. L. (2016). Forest management and planning. Academic press.

Davis LS, Johnson KN, Bettinger PS, Howard TE. 2001. Forest Management. New York: McGraw-Hill. 804 pp.

Dubourdieu, J., Prieto Rodríguez, A., & López Quero, M. (1993). Manual of forest management. Manual of forest management.

Kangas, A., Kurttila, M., Hujala, T., Eyvindson, K., & Kangas, J. (2015). Decision support for forest management (Vol. 30). Springer.

 Additional literature will be provided throughout the classes to illustrate specific aspects of the subject.