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Course code: ROSS20081o16Semester: 2016/2017 summer
Name: Landscape planning and management of green areas
Major: Horticulture
Study Type: second cycle
Course type: compulsory
Study Semester: 1
ECTS points: 6
Hours (Lectures / Tutorials / Other): 30 / 30 / 0
Lecturer: dr Magdalena Szymura
Language of instruction: Polish / English
Learning outcomes: Knowledge: Student has a knowledge relating a principle of care and management in different type of a landscape, depending of anthropopressure and habitat conditions. Student gets to now a species corresponding with definite type of phytocenosis, anthropogenic changes in natural systems and landscape planning with a principle of ecodevelopment (O2-W04, O2-W05). Skills: Student can plan a necessary measures to keeping in good condition the vegetation as in a city so as in open landscape (O2-U01, O2-U05, O2-U07).
Competences: Student understands the influence of projected vegetation on surroundings. He increase his responsibility for introducing of new species into environment. Student understands processes, conducted in projected plant systems (O2-K01, O2-K04, O2-K05).
Prerequisites: Botany, Dendrology, Ecology
Course content: The scientific theories used in landscape description. Apply of a pieces and corridors model in landscape designing. Real and potential vegetation. Landscape stability. Anthropogenic changes in natural systems. Landscape planning with a principle of ecodevelopment.
Recommended literature: Marsh W. M., Landscape planning: Environmental Applications. Forman R. T. T., Godron M., Landscape Ecology. Brooks J., 1984, Garden Book.
Assessment methods: Knowledge: Exam from subjects of lectures Skills: project and tests Social competencies: Evaluation of information selection and compliance with copyrights.
Comment: Exam from subjects of lectures, classes: project and tests.