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Ordenamento e Gestão Florestal (1 º Sem 2016/2017)

LEFRN , MEDFOR

Breve introdução

Program

 

Topic 1. Introduction to forest resources management and economics

·     The specificity of forest resources management and economics. Basic elements and concepts forest resources management and certification.

·       Types of management planning problems.

 

Topic 2. Economics and valuation. The market and the allocation of forest resources.

·   The market and the allocation of forest resources. Market imperfections and externalities: the case of forest resources. First approach to the valuation of forest goods and services: the product, the tree, the stand and the forest. Time and interest. The arithmetic of interest and practical assessment of forest land. Compensation and damage assessment.

 

Topic 3. Stand-level management, conservation and protection planning.

·       Fundamentals of decision-making. Decision criteria. The cases of pure, even-aged and mixed and uneven-aged stands.

 

Topic 4. Forest management certification

·       Concept of quality. Quality Certification. Certification of Sustainable Forest Management Systems. Product Certification. Life Cycle Analysis (LCA). Certification process. Certification programs (or systems). Comparative analysis. Procedures for certification: individual, group and regional (examples). Norma Portuguesa NP 4406: 2003. Certification of forest products. Certification to practice "good management" and "capacity building".


Objectives of this course

(1) To know basic elements and concepts of forest management planning and certification,

(2) to understand how economic principles and decision analysis integrate forest management, conservation and protection planning,

(3) to know techniques to support forest management and certification and

 

(4) to get familiar with the management planning and the certification context – management problems in areas of non-industrial private property, in industrial forest areas, in public forest areas or community forests and in conservation and protection areas, problems of group and regional certification.

Corpo Docente

Pedro César Ochôa de Carvalho (Responsável)

Brigite Roxo Botequim

Susete Maria Gonçalves Marques