Students should be able to criticize, integrate and discuss and communicate the topics addressed. Established learning goals:
1. Familiarity with the principles and terminology, fundamental concepts, processes, strategies and methods for planning, management and conservation of species and habitats, and other management solutions as ecosystems approach
2. To evaluate the key threats to biodiversity, ecosystems and key species in certain area and to understand importance of conservation within, and outside, reserves. To understand of International agreements and policies on species and habitats conservation.
3. To use legal framework to develop conservation programs to assure prevention, mitigation and conservation.
4. To get acquaintance with strategies and methodologies for biodiversity, species and ecosystem conservation, as conservation planning and techniques as control of pest plants and animals and species translocations.
1. Historical perspective of conservation and traditional conservation methods.
2. Legal framework for conservation: regional, national, European and international.
3. Protected areas and their classification. Definition criteria; Networks and interconnectivity, minimal areas, minimum viable population (MVP) size.
4 Spatial Planning tools and spatial constraints on the public domain
5. Threats to biodiversity, species and ecosystems, including habitat modification and loss, unsustainable resource use, introduced species and climate change. Mitigation strategies. Species conservation status and management priorities.
6. Social-economical aspects in relation to conservation; strategies for public engagement in the establishment and management of conservation programs.
7. Novel methods and strategies for conservation: area and community based; “ecologically or biologically significant marine areas – EBSAS, e LMMA “locally managed marine areas” and LME Large Marine Ecosystems.
Classes would be theoretical-practical. Classes are dedicated to promote knowledge on the core concepts, in an interactive way, as students should be able to read, analyse and criticize scientific papers, as well as to research on issues based on current bibliography, analysis, discussion and synthesis, and skills for communication. The remaining classes are dedicated to promote the design and implementation of conservation programs, including both terrestrial and marine ecosystems. A field trip will provide the acquaintance to a local case-study. The integration and application of knowledge should be achieved by a work on a topic, defined at the beginning of the discipline.
Hastings, J., S. Thomas, V. Burgener, K. Gjerde, D. Laffoley, R. Salm, L. McCook, L. Pet-Soede, W. M. Eichbaum, M. Bottema, G. Hemley, J. Tanzer, C. Roberts, H. Govan, H. E. Fox 2012 Safeguarding the Blue Planet: Six strategies for accelerating ocean protection. Parks 18.1: 9-21.
Lindenmayer, D. and Burgman, M., 2005. Practical Conservation Biology CSIRO Publishing
Norse, E. A. & L. Crowder (Eds) 2005 Marine Conservation Biology: The Science of Maintaining the Sea's Biodiversity Island Press.
Mais material de apoio bibliográfico será fornecido ao longo do decorrer da disciplina.
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