ECTS credits ECTS credits: 3
ECTS Hours Rules/Memories Student's work ECTS: 51 Hours of tutorials: 3 Expository Class: 9 Interactive Classroom: 12 Total: 75
Use languages Spanish, Galician
Type: Ordinary subject Master’s Degree RD 1393/2007 - 822/2021
Departments: External department linked to the degrees
Areas: Área externa M. U. en Biodiversidad Terrestre: Caracterización, Conservación y Gestión
Center Faculty of Biology
Call: Second Semester
Teaching: With teaching
Enrolment: Enrollable | 1st year (Yes)
• Ability to decide the proper protected area category for a given area and to delineate its limits.
• Ability to implement protected area zoning.
• Ability to list the uses allowed in a protected area.
• Ability to design, lead, prepare, apply and interpret conservation projects and plans (natural resources plan, management and use plan, etc.).
Theories:
1. Introduction. History of the conservation of protected natural areas. Origin and values associated to different protected area types.
2. Protected areas: types, objectives and designations at an international level. Protected natural areas in Spain and Galicia. Protected areas networks. Legal tools for planning: PORN and PRUG.
3. Principles of protected areas management. Management of populations and ecosystem management. Objectives and strategies for management. Systematic conservation planning: concepts, principles and implementation. Uncertainty and adaptive management.
4. Protected areas management and global change.
Other activities (practices, seminars, tutorials):
1. Introduction to systematic conservation planning: software and applications.
2. Methods and workflow for designing and zoning protected areas with the software MARXAN.
3. Case study I: Design of a network of Special Protection Areas for Birds (SPAs).
4. Case study II: Zonation of a protected area.
Ausden, Malcolm. 2007. Habitat management for conservation : a handbook of techniques. Oxford University Press.
Dudley, N. 2008. Directrices para la aplicación de las categorias de gestión de áreas protegidas. UICN
BASIC AND GENERAL SKILLS
CROSS-SECTIONAL SKILLS
SPECIFIC SKILLS
Scenario 1 (normality)
Lecture-explanation: teaching procedure by which the lecturer will present the concepts and/or procedures, providing basic information necessary for understanding the theoretical perspectives or practical procedures, to promote student participation.
Practical class: developed in the field, laboratory or computer room. Its objectives are to observe in situ aspects of the physical and biological environment, to carry out experiments and to learn and apply computer software, with the support and supervision of the lecturer.
Scenario 2 (social distancing)
On site teaching is partially suspended. Since classrooms allow for the presence of students with social distancing, teaching will be performed on site as described in the previous scenario as long as the university is open for teaching and students have no difficulty to attend. However, depending on restrictions and student circumstances, we may apply the virtual teaching mode, as follows:
Lecture-explanation: it will be done with presentations in power-point that include and audio explanation to be sent to students, as well as videoconferences with them to discuss about the topics and to clarify questions.
Workshop: it will be done using videoconferences.
Collaborative teaching: it will be done using videoconferences.
Scenario 3 (university is closed)
On site teaching is suspended. Teaching will be performed as described in the previous scenario for virtual teaching mode.
Scenario 1 (normality)
Minimum Maximum
Continuous evaluation 30 100
Exam 0 70
Scenario 2 (social distancing)
As long as the university is open and students can attend without difficulties, the evaluation system will be maintained as described under the scenario 1. If we have to proceed to a virtual teaching mode, the exam will be replaced by a homework assignment, consisting on a review on a subject-related topic.
Minimum Maximum
Continuous evaluation 100 100
Exam 0 70
Scenario 3 (university is closed)
In this case we would apply the virtual teaching mode, using the evaluation system described previously in Scenario 2.
Scenario 1 (normality)
Hours Percentage (%)
Lectures 7 100
Interactive classes 14 100
Tutorials 1 100
Exam 2 100
Personal studies 51 0
Total hours of work 75
Scenario 2 (social distancing)
An intermediate scheme between scenario 1 and 3 will be applied, with percentages of on-site teaching being modified according to the restrictions imposed.
Scenario 3 (university is closed)
Hours Percentage (%)
Lectures 7 0
Interactive classes 14 0
Tutorials 1 0
Exam 2 0
Personal studies 51 0
Total hours of work 75
Contingency plan
Scenario 2 & 3:
In case we had to move to the virtual teaching mode, the teaching methodology corresponding to lecture-explanations will be done with presentations in power-point that include and audio explanation to be sent to students, as well as videoconferences with them to discuss about the topics and to clarify questions. For workshops and collaborative learning, we would use videoconference, phone and email.
| Tuesday | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| 12:00-14:00 | Grupo /CLE_01 | - | Seminar Room 4 Jacques Ives Cousteau |
| Wednesday | |||
| 09:00-12:00 | Grupo /CLE_01 | - | Seminar Room 4 Jacques Ives Cousteau |
| Thursday | |||
| 09:00-12:00 | Grupo /CLE_01 | - | Seminar Room 4 Jacques Ives Cousteau |
| Friday | |||
| 10:00-12:00 | Grupo /CLE_01 | - | Seminar Room 4 Jacques Ives Cousteau |