Base Knowledge
No basic training required.
Teaching Methodologies
1. oral presentation by the teacher of the contents necessary for the acquisition of skills; 2. resolution of practical applications (exercises; text analysis; case studies); 3. carrying out documentary and empirical research activities to be undertaken by students, guided by the teacher, to be held during the contact time and outside it; 4. completion of group work, its oral presentation and discussion by the collective.
Learning Results
Build a reference framework around the concepts, dimensions and issues related to local development;
Mastering techniques and methods for promoting the participation of populations in the implementation of plans and projects for local development
Understand the problem of local development in rural areas given the new challenges facing Portugal and the European Union
Understand the role of forests in rural and local development.
Program
Programmatic content:
1. Concepts and approaches to development
1.1. Evolution of the concept of development
1.2. Myths and paradigms of development
1.3. Globalization and local development
1.4. Development indicators
1.5. Differences between types of development
2. Local development in rural areas
2.1. Concepts and typologies associated with rural territories
2.2. Objectives and instruments of rural development
2.3. Rural development in the context of the European Union
3. Institutions, organizations and associative structures in rural areas
4. Participatory techniques of diagnosis and planning by objectives
5. Framework and funding of development projects in Portugal
5.1 Programmes with Community funding
5.2 The LEADER program
6. Forest resources and local development
6.1. Specificities of the forest sector and rural areas in Portugal in the EU context
6.2. Social actors and local agents linked to the forest sector
6.3. The property system in forest areas
6.4. Common management of forest areas in rural communities
Curricular Unit Teachers
Internship(s)
NAO
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