Moses - Adaptive Management in Environmental Planning: Open Standards for the Practice of Conservation

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Diese Modulbeschreibung gilt nicht im aktuellen Semester.

Die Modulbeschreibung gilt nur für den Zeitraum WS 2019/20 - WiSe 2022/23.

Module / Version:
#61267 / #2

Validity:
WS 2019/20 - WiSe 2022/23

Default display language:
English

Module title:
Adaptive Management in Environmental Planning: Open Standards for the Practice of Conservation

Credits:
6

Responsible person:
Heiland, Stefan

Grading:
benotet

Type of exam:
Portfolioprüfung

Zugehörigkeit

Faculty:
Fakultät VI

Institute:
Institut für Landschaftsarchitektur und Umweltplanung (ILaUP)

Area of expertise:
36351200 FG Landschaftsplanung und Landschaftsentwicklung

Prüfungsausschuss:
Landschaftsarchitektur/Ökologie/Umweltplanung

Kontakt

Office:
No information

Contact person:
Heiland, Stefan

E-mail address:
stefan.heiland@tu-berlin.de

Website:

http://www.landschaft.tu-berlin.de

Learning Outcomes

The Module - qualifies the students to apply the planning phases of the international adaptive management approach “Open Standards for the Practice of Conservation” - deepens the students’ understanding of complex political, socioeconomic, geographical and ecological issues and interlinkages in the context of ecosystem-, conservation- and landuse-management - enables students to critically discuss and present recent projects on sustainable ressource, ecosystem and landuse management against the background of the societal, economic and politcal framework in different regions of the world - deepens the students’ awareness of conflicts between social, economic and ecologic goals - deepens the students’ abilities for efficient groupwork, facilitation and mediation techniques - enables the students to develop conservation and sustainable land use strategies based on the principles of adaptive management and on the basis of knowledge about current local issues within the region of a case study - creates awareness about the interlinkages of ecosystem services and human-wellbeing - deepens the students’ capacity to visualize complex situations and interrelations with the supporting software Miradi which was developed for the rollout of the Open Standards approach

Content

The need for flexible and adaptive solutions to cope with today’s challenges and unforeseen changes in nature conservation and resource management becomes more and more important in an increasingly complex world. Adaptive management is one important skill to overcome these problems. Apart from attending the introductory lectures provided by the supervisors on each step of the conceptualization and planning phase of the Open Standards, the student teams will develop a basic management plan for sustainable resource, land use or ecosystem management following a methodological approach proposed by the “Conservation Measures Partnership” (CMP): The Open Standards for the Practice of Conservation. CMP is a partnership of important conservation NGOs (such as The Nature Conservancy, WWF, Con-servation International, the IUCN Worlds Commission on Protected Areas and many more) that seek common and better ways to design, manage, and measure the impacts of their conservation actions. The Open Standards planning methodology represents a logical step-by-step procedure enabling the course participants to work out a complex situation analysis about the current state of the case study area, considering human, biophysical, social, political and economic impacts on the conservation ob-jects. Based on that conservation strategies and future scenarios on the conservation impact will be developed. The course represents a combination of introductory lectures on theoretical topics and mainly practical exercises which will be carried out in groups. In addition to the fundamental knowledge about an international approach of project management in nature conservation, the following issues will be addressed: basics of group communication, facilitation and mediation techniques, software based visualization of complex situations, adaptive management, stakeholder analysis, presentation techniques, knowledge about applied nature conservation and stakeholder participation, complex situation analysis, introduc-tion into a real case study in the field of nature conservation and sustainable landuse management accompanied by a field trip with the possibility to interview relevant actors of the case study area.

Module Components

Pflichtgruppe:

All Courses are mandatory.

Course Name	Type	Number	Cycle	Language	SWS	VZ
Adaptive Management in Environmental Planning: Open Standards for the Practice of Conservation	IV		SoSe	English	4

Workload and Credit Points

Adaptive Management in Environmental Planning: Open Standards for the Practice of Conservation (IV):

Workload description	Multiplier	Hours	Total
Attendance	15.0	4.0h	60.0h
Pre/post processing	15.0	8.0h	120.0h
			180.0h(~6 LP)

The Workload of the module sums up to 180.0 Hours. Therefore the module contains 6 Credits.

Description of Teaching and Learning Methods

Seminar: The course will be taught in English. The introduction to the case study will be accompanied by an excursion. The steps of the conceptualization and planning phase of the Open Standards ap-proach are taught in introductory lectures. The steps are applied in student groups. The student groups are coached by the supervisors. The group work results in form of a basic management plan are pre-sented to the course. Students are working in smaller groups of 5-7.

Requirements for participation and examination

Desirable prerequisites for participation in the courses:

Registration in the Master Environmental Planning, the Master Ökologie und Umweltplanung and the Bachelor Ökologie und Umweltplanung (Profilierungsphase).

Mandatory requirements for the module test application:

This module has no requirements.

Module completion

Grading

graded

Type of exam

Portfolio examination

Type of portfolio examination

100 Punkte pro Element

Language

English

Test elements

Name	Weight	Categorie	Duration/Extent
Final group presentation	1	oral	30 min
Final group report	1	written	30.000 - 50.000 characters without blanks and literature

Grading scale

This exam uses its own grading scale (see test description).

Test description (Module completion)

Final group presentation (Max. 30 min. per group) Final group report (30.000 - 50.000 characters without blanks and literature).

Duration of the Module

The following number of semesters is estimated for taking and completing the module:
1 Semester.

This module may be commenced in the following semesters:
Sommersemester.

Maximum Number of Participants

The maximum capacity of students is 15.

Registration Procedures

Prüfungsamt or Qispos

Recommended literature
CMP (2013): Open Standards for the Practice of Conservation. Version 3.0. Online: http://cmp-openstandards.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/CMP-OS-V3-0-Final.pdf (downloaded on 23.11.2018)
Foundations of Success (2009): Conceptualizing and Planning Conservation Projects and Programs. A Training Manual. Based on the Conservation Measures Partnership’s Open Standards for the Practice of Conservation. Online: http://cmp-openstandards.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/FOS-CMP-Online-Training-Guide-Steps-1-and-2-updated-8-Feb-2012.pdf (downloaded on 23.11.2018)

Assigned Degree Programs

Semester:

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This module is used in the following Degree Programs (new System):

	Studiengang / StuPO	StuPOs	Verwendungen	Erste Verwendung	Letzte Verwendung
This module is not used in any degree program.

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Adaptive Management in Environmental Planning: Open Standards for the Practice of Conservation