Module I: Methods in Landscape Analysis I

23 - 27 April 2012

Participants in the Lecture Room. Photo by: Stephan Wirth, ZALF

Registered students are charged 200 Euro for the module.

This includes the fee for the module (80 Euro, overheads for organisation) plus 120 Euro for lodging in the guest-house of ZALF, technical equipment, overheads for room use, and the excursion.

Students from the Humboldt-University in Berlin are exempt from the module fee and pay only 120 Euro if accomodation is required.

Registration for the module are only effective, if the payments are deposited not later than 6 Weeks before start of the module.

Cancellation fee will be 50 Euro if you cancel your participation less than 2 weeks before the module started.

Material obligatory for preparation of the ZALF Module "Methods in Landscape Analysis I" will be available on our website at last to weeks before start of the module. Participants should do the timely reading before their courses starts.

Contents

Introduction into the general topic "Carbon dynamics in arable landscapes"

Introduction into the topic "landscape" (definition, sustainable land use, multi-functionality)

Principals and tools of the model-based landscape analysis (environmetrics, geostatistic modelling, multi- and hyperspectral remote sensing techniques, geophysical techniques, digital terrain analysis)

Modelling approaches for water- and nutrient cycles (catchments, C- and N-cycles in agro-ecosystems)

Modelling approaches for micro-economic landscape management (trade-offs, micro-economic land use models)

Decision support systems for sustainable land use

Aims

Enhance knowledge on important methods of model-based landscape analysis

Qualification to critical examination of pros and cons of the methods in model-based landscape analysis (or: qualification to critical evaluation on the application of different methods in model-based landscape analysis)

Qualification to problem-oriented discussion about aims and methods of a sustainable land use

Precondition

The module is based on knowledge in soil science, ecology, and agricultural economics.
The completion of basic modules in the master studies is recommended.

Recognition of the Module

Workload in total: 180 hours, 6 ECTS Credits

Lecturers

Staff of the ZALF
(Leibniz-Centre for Agricultural Landscape Research, Müncheberg)

Preconditions for allocation of credits

Written examination (written, 60 minutes)