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Students examine why and how management plans are created for conservation and other sites. Field work in a multiple use site is followed by data analysis, practical tasks and writing provides training required to construct a management plan.
Structured practical sessions provide experience with spreadsheets, ArcGIS and other technical software and increases your confidence with data handling and analysis.
The main assignment in the form of a management plan allows you to develop your skills to a professional standard.
The mixture of science and management offers you a unique range of skills required by employers.
| Study Type | Postgraduate | Level | 5 |
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| Term | Second Term | Credit Points | 15 credits (7.5 ECTS credits) |
| Campus | Aberdeen | Sustained Study | No |
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Course Aim
to develop an understanding of the need for management plans for conservation and/or woodland sites and the processes required to create such plans.
Learning Outcomes
By the end of the course the students should:
• understand the need for management plans and their role in environmental management
• be aware of conservation designations and relevant UK legal restrictions and understand how they may affect land management decisions
• understand the planning process for environmental management plans
• be able to create a management plan for a given site
• be able to draw up budgets for operational plans and be aware of possible sources of funding (in the UK)
• be able to use GIS to produce maps of a professional standard suitable for an environmental management plan
Course Content
• Role of management plans
• Content of management plans for conservation and/or woodland management
• The planning process
• Statutory designations, both UK and international (e.g. SSSI and SAC), and legal restrictions (UK only)
• The use of official guidelines and voluntary standards (e.g. forest certification) in management planning
• Planning at different levels, e.g. strategic plans and site / operational plans
• Budgets and financial appraisal, including sources of funding
• The use of online tools to aid management planning, e.g. the Scottish Government’s Land Information Search tool and the Forestry Commission’s Ecological Site Classification
• Using Geographic Information Systems (GIS) in management planning
• Field visits to the site used for the management plan assignment
Information on contact teaching time is available from the course guide.
| Assessment Type | Summative | Weighting | 100 | |
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There are no assessments for this course.
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| Factual | Remember | ILO’s for this course are available in the course guide. |
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