Investments and Forest Resources Development

Course: Investments and Forest Resources Development
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Prerequisites: Mandatory
Credits: ECTS 4
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COURSE OUTLINE

 

  1. GENERAL
SCHOOL ACTICULTURAL AND FORESTRY SCIENCES
DEPARTMENT FORESTRY AND MANAGEMENT OF THE ENVIRONMENT AND NATURAL RESOURCES
LEVEL OF STUDIES 7th
COURSE CODE DSTH6Y SEMESTER Summer / 8th
COURSE TITLE INVESTMENTS AND DEVELOPMENT OF FOREST RESOURCES
TEACHING ACTIVITIES
If the ECTS Credits are distributed in distinct parts of the course e.g. lectures, labs etc. If the ECTS Credits are awarded to the whole course, then please indicate the teaching hours per week and the corresponding ECTS Credits		 TEACHING HOURS PER WEEK ECTS CREDITS
  4 4
     
     
Add additional lines if needed. The tutorial system and methods that are used are described in detail in section 4.    
COURSE TYPE  
PREREQUISITES:

 

 No
TEACHING & EXAMINATION LANGUAGE: GREEK

 
COURSE OFFERED TO ERASMUS STUDENTS: NO
COURSE URL: http://eclass.duth.gr/eclass/courses/OPE02118

 

  1. LEARNING OUTCOMES
Learning Outcomes
Learning outcomes of the course are described, the specific knowledge, skills and abilities of an appropriate level that students will acquire after the successful completion of the course

Consult Appendix A

·    Description of Tutorial Results Level for every study round according to the Qualification Context of the European Highest Education Area

·    Descriptive Indexes of 6th, 7th and 8th Level of the European Qualification Context of Lifelong Learning and Appendix B

·    Summary Guide for Writing Learning Outcomes
The aim of the course is to equip students with the basic concepts of investments and their evaluation techniques, as well as the evaluation of projects and programs related to forest resources.

 

At the end of the course students will be able to:

 

 

· Understand the concepts of investment, investment evaluation, projects and development programs
· Prepare investment plans for the utilization of forest resources
· Apply the basic principles of evaluation to them and recognize the complexity of evaluation
· Identify the main elements of an evaluation project and choose the most appropriate methodology
· Use the available technology to gather data on the investments, projects and development programs of an area, process, analyze them and draw conclusions for the integrated development of those areas
· They have understood and evaluated the importance of investment in the development of the country
· Combine their knowledge and examine the possibilities of utilizing financial tools in the development of a region and / or the country

 

 
   

General Skills
Taking into account the general skills that the graduate must have acquired (as listed in the Diploma Supplement and listed below), which of the following is the course intended for;

 

Search, analysis and synthesis of data and information, using the necessary technologies

Adaptation to new situations

Decision making

Autonomous work

Team work

Work in an international environment

Work in an interdisciplinary environment

Production of new research ideas

   Project design and management

Respecting diversification and multiculturalism

Respecting natural environment

Demostration of social, professional and moral responsibility and sensitivity in gender issues

Critisism and self – criticism practice

Promoting free, creative and inductive thinking
   
 

• Autonomous Work
• Team Work
• Search, analysis and synthesis of data and information, using the necessary technologies
• Decision making
• Working in an international environment
• Production of new research ideas
• Respecting natural environment
• Criticism and self – criticism practice

 

 

 

  1. COURSE CONTENT
Week            Thematic Unit of Lectures

 

1. Key concepts, public expenditure and forest resources, investments in forestry and the environment
2. Market limits and state interventions. Efficiency and prosperity
3. Investment plans and valuation methods
4. Investment plans and valuation methods
5. Risk and uncertainty. Social discount rate
6. Evaluation techniques and contribution of European programs, regulations and initiatives to the development of forest resources, forestry and the environment
7. Classification of forest resources. Social and economic consequences of the use of natural and forest resources
8. Planning, analysis, management and evaluation of development projects, environmental protection projects and development programs
9. Investments, forest resources and integrated rural development
10. Mountainous and les – favoured areas
11. European Union financial instruments
12. Natural and forest resources development strategies
13. Contemporary directions in the Greek and international reality

 

 

Week     Thematic Lab Unit / Tutorial exercises

 

1. Investment criteria for independent projects
2. Investment criteria for independent projects
3. Cost – benefit analysis
4. Cost – benefit analysis
5. Risk and uncertainty
6. Preparation and evaluation of an investment plan
7. Preparation and evaluation of an investment plan
8. Preparation a development plan at local and regional level. Emphasis on the primary sector, natural resources and the environment
9. Preparation of a strategic forestry development plan
10. Criteria for prioritization of investments and resources
11. Multicriteria methods
12. Case studies from forestry and primary sector
13. Case studies from forestry and primary sector

 

 

 

  1. LEARNING and TEACHING METHODS – EVALUATION
LECTURE METHOD Face to face, in classroom
ICT METHODS
ICT methods in teaching, in lab education, in communication with students		 ICT use in education and in communication with students. Educational procedure support using e – class platform
Organization of tuition

Analytical description of the educational way and methods. Περιγράφονται αναλυτικά ο τρόπος και μέθοδοι διδασκαλίας.

Lectures, seminars, lab exercises, field exercises, bibliographic study and analysis, tuition, fieldwork, clinical exercises, artistic workshop, interactive tuition, educational tours, projects.

 

Record the study hours of the student for every educational activity as well as the study hours of non – supportive study in order that the total semester workload be equal to the ECTS standards
Activity Semester workload
Lectures 52
Bibliography study and analysis 16
Practice exercises with application of methodologies in individual topics 16
Individual or team project elaboration 16
   
   
   
Total 100
STUDENT EVALUATION

Description of the evaluation procedure

 

Evaluation language, evaluation methods, Configurative or a priori, multiple choice questions, questions of short answers, questions with essays as answers, solving problems, projects, reports, oral exams, public presentation, lab exercises, etc

 

Assigned evaluation criteria are referred and if and where are accessible by the students

 1. Final written examination (80%)

α) Questions with short answers (4)

β) Questions with essays as answers (2)

γ) Solving problems/exercises (2)

2. Individual or team projects (20%)

Students having ascertained dyslexia problems are examined with oral methods.

Students have access to his/her essay at any time

 

 

  1. RECOMMENDED BIBLIOGRAPHY
-Recommended bibliography :

·      Polyzos S. 2019. Regional development. Kritiki editions. Athens.

·      Mergos G. 2007. Socio – economic evaluation of investments and policies. Vol A’. E. Mpenou editions. Athens.

·      Arampatzis G., Polyzos S. 2008. Natural resources, environment and development. Tziola editions. Thessaloniki.

 

-Related scientific journals:

Regional Studies, Forest Policy and Economics, Land Use Policy

 

 

 

 

ANNEX OF THE COURSE OUTLINE

 

Alternative ways of examining a course in emergency situations

 

Teacher (full name): Garyfallos Arabatzis
Contact details: garamp@fmenr.duth.gr
Supervisors: (1) No
Evaluation methods: (2) Written distance examination, through the e-class platform, using multiple choice questions.
Implementation Instructions: (3) The examinations will be carried out according to the examination program that will be announced by the secretariat of the Department.

Students should link to the course page in the e-class platform and go to the “Exercises” section and select the “Course Exams” exercise.

Each student should answer in 10 questions. Each of the multiple choice questions is scored with 1 point giving a total sum of 10 points

The duration of the test will be 10 minutes.

Any student wishing to take the exam must have logged in to the e-class platform 10 minutes before the start of the exam.

 

  • To be completed with YES or NO
  • Note down the evaluation methods used by the teacher, e.g.
  • written assignment or/and exercises
  • written or oral examination with distance learning methods, provided that the integrity and reliability of the examination are ensured.
  • In the Implementation Instructions section, the teacher notes down clear instructions to the students:

α) in case of written assignment and / or exercises: the deadline (e.g. the last week of the semester), the means of submitting them to the teacher, the grading system, the participation of the assignment in the final grade and every other detail that should be mentioned.

β) in case of oral examination with distance learning methods: the instructions for conducting the examination (e.g. in groups of X people), the way of pronouncing topics, the applications to be used, the necessary technical means for the implementation of the examination (microphone, camera, word processor, internet connection, communication platform), the way the hyperlink is sent, the duration of the exam, the grading system, the participation of the exam in the final grade, the ways in which the inviolability and reliability of the exam is ensured and every other detail that should be mentioned.

γ) in case of written examination with distance learning methods: the instructions for assigning the topics, the way of submitting the answers, the duration of the exam, the grading system, the participation of the exam in the final grade, the ways in which the integrity and reliability of the exam is ensured and every other detail that should be mentioned.

There should be an attached list with the Student Registration Numbers only of the beneficiaries to participate in the examination.