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| ORM4012 | Designing Forest Management Plans in Protected Areas | 2+0+0 | ECTS:3 | | Year / Semester | Spring Semester | | Level of Course | First Cycle | | Status | Elective | | Department | DEPARTMENT of FOREST ENGINEERING | | Prerequisites and co-requisites | None | | Mode of Delivery | | | Contact Hours | 14 weeks - 2 hours of lectures per week | | Lecturer | Doç. Dr. Uzay KARAHALİL | | Co-Lecturer | Prof. Mehmet MISIR | | Language of instruction | Turkish | | Professional practise ( internship ) | None | | | | The aim of the course: | | The course aims to provide the students explain the concept of protected areas, and informed about protected area status, introduce the difficulties while preparing management plans of protected areas in Turkey, illustrate and explicate the management plans prepared with conventional approach to date
and introduce new planning approaches used recently while planning protected areas, characterize and quantify standing out forests values in national parks, discussing forest inventory that can be taken out in these areas, advising theoretical knowledge can be reduced forest fires, hurricane and insect damages during the planning process, speaking conservation targets and decision making practically to the students.
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| Learning Outcomes | CTPO | TOA | | Upon successful completion of the course, the students will be able to : | | | | LO - 1 : | Recall concept and status of the protected areas | 3,4 | 1, | | LO - 2 : | Discuss and differentiate the conventional protected areas forest management plans prepared up to date and Ecosystem Based Forest Management Plans prepared according to new approach. | 3,4 | 1, | | LO - 3 : | Familiar with problems that can be appear during the planning process and eligible for solving the problems encountered. | 3,4 | 1, | | LO - 4 : | Acquire detailed information about decision making in protected areas | 3,4 | 1, | | CTPO : Contribution to programme outcomes, TOA :Type of assessment (1: written exam, 2: Oral exam, 3: Homework assignment, 4: Laboratory exercise/exam, 5: Seminar / presentation, 6: Term paper), LO : Learning Outcome | | |
| Protected areas concept and history of protection of nature, historical development of protected areas in Turkey, management plans designed for protected areas in the past and their deficient points. New planning approaches used in planning of protected areas recently, standing out forest values or functions in protected areas, management goals, conservation targets, forest form and forest function relationships in protected areas. Forest inventory in protected areas, introducing precautions be applied to forest fires, hurricanes and insect disease. Use of decision making techniques in forest management planning of protected areas
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| Course Syllabus | | Week | Subject | Related Notes / Files | | Week 1 | Introduction and decsription of the contents of the course | | | Week 2 | Definition of protected areas, the importance of protected areas in our country, the responsible organisations in natural resource protection | | | Week 3 | History of nature protection, historical development of protected areas in Turkey, important international organizastions and their definitions for different statuses of protected areas, the area of protected areas of Turkey considering different statuses. | | | Week 4 | The necessity for designing forest management plans in proteced areas, legislation on this issue in our country, forest management plans designed for protected areas in the past and their deficient points. | | | Week 5 | Recent planning approaches used in planning of protected areas, analyzing the new developed framework for forest management planning of protected areas. | | | Week 6 | Standing out forest values or functions in protected areas and digitizing those forest values, management goals in protected areas and finding optimal solutions in case of conflicting those management goals. | | | Week 7 | Standing out conservation targets, silvicultural goals, analyzing previous forest management plans in terms of thinning and regeneration, forest form and forest function relationships in protected areas. | | | Week 8 | Forest inventory in protected areas. | | | Week 9 | Mid-term exam | | | Week 10 | Questionaries for satisfying participation in protected areas, determining tourism-recreation potential in protected areas. | | | Week 11 | Monitoring spatio-temporal changes in protected areas, analyzing conducted studies for protected areas in our country. | | | Week 12 | Forest management plans designed for protected areas | | | Week 13 | Introducing precautions to be applied for forest fires, hurricanes and insect disease, modelling and integration of forest fires to forest management plans in protected areas. | | | Week 14 | Use of decision making techniques in forest management planning of protected areas
| | | Week 15 | Evaluation of model results or outputs with performance indicators, analyzing the agreement between General Diroctorate of Forestry and General Directorate of Nature Protection and Natural Parks. | | | Week 16 | Final exam | | | |
| 1 | Lee, T., ve Middleton, J., 2003. Guidelines for management planning of protected areas, Best Practice Guidelines Series No:10, IUCN:The World Conservation Union, 79 s. | | | |
| 1 | Lockwood, M, Worboys, G. L., ve Kothari, A. 2006. Managing Protected Areas:A Global Guide | | | 2 | Prato, T. ve Fagre, D., 2005. National parks and protected areas : Approaches for balancing social, economic, and ecological values, Blackwell Publishing, 446 s. | | | 3 | Karahalil, U., 2009. Korunan Orman Alanlarında Amenajman Planlarının Düzenlenmesi (Köprülü kanyon milli parkı örneği) Doktora Tezi, K.T.Ü., Fen Bilimleri Enstitüsü, Trabzon. | | | |
| Method of Assessment | | Type of assessment | Week No | Date | Duration (hours) | Weight (%) | | Mid-term exam | 9 | 08/05/2021 | 1,00 | 50 | | End-of-term exam | 16 | 26/06/2021 | 1,00 | 50 | | |
| Student Work Load and its Distribution | | Type of work | Duration (hours pw) | No of weeks / Number of activity | Hours in total per term | | Yüz yüze eğitim | 2 | 12 | 24 | | Sınıf dışı çalışma | 1 | 12 | 12 | | Laboratuar çalışması | 0 | 0 | 0 | | Arasınav için hazırlık | 4 | 4 | 16 | | Arasınav | 1 | 1 | 1 | | Uygulama | 0 | 0 | 0 | | Klinik Uygulama | 0 | 0 | 0 | | Ödev | 0 | 0 | 0 | | Proje | 0 | 0 | 0 | | Kısa sınav | 0 | 0 | 0 | | Dönem sonu sınavı için hazırlık | 4 | 6 | 24 | | Dönem sonu sınavı | 1 | 1 | 1 | | Diğer 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | | Diğer 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | | Total work load | | | 78 |
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