CONSERVAZIONE DELLE BIODIVERSITA'
(objectives)
AIMS The course aims to provide students with an advanced knowledge that would allow them to identify and understand the problems and methods typical of biodiversity conservation. Dealing with an applied discipline, the course will train students able to surf between the different levels of organization of biodiversity to identify the problems that underlie its loss and to identify the most effective solutions.
- Knowledge and Understanding The students will acquire knowledge of the management strategies to face the various problems that impact biodiversity. This objective is reflected in the organization of the program which runs through the hierarchical scale of biodiversity organization, from the genetic level, to population and species up to the ecosystem and global levels.
- Applied Knowledge and Understanding The knowledge acquired will be applied to the ecological mechanisms that allow evaluating the state and functioning of ecosystems and biodiversity. Comprehension abilities will be applied by encouraging students to deal with complex and multi-scalar disciplines and problems.
- Independent Evaluation The ability to formulate independent evaluations will be exercised thanks to the interdisciplinary and multilevel reasoning required by this discipline and by the analysis of the case studies proposed, that need the merging of complex and heterogeneous data to be understood.
- Communication skills These skills will be developed through the exercise of one's own expression (interventions during the lessons) and in the coordination of group activities, especially during field exercises.
- Ability to learn The many concepts learned and the connections linking them all will stimulate a “learning-by-reasoning” process, essential to fully understand the ecological mechanisms involved in impacts identification and mitigation.
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