The 2nd Cycle Degree Course (Master Degree) in Environmental and Forest Sciences represents the logical extension of the homonymous 1st Cycle Course (Bachelor Course), Class L25. The main goal of the Course is to provide professional forest graduates with enhanced skills in strategic planning and management and with the technical, cultural, and management instruments necessary to operate in the fields of protection, conservation and monitoring of forest, pastoral and faunal resources, woodland protection from wildfires, soil protection and conservation, territory ecological planning and the establishment of low environmental impact operations aimed at protecting and enhancing mountain and hillslope areas.
First year
- Forest Geobotany
- Management of Forest Systems and Safety in Forestry Operations
- Silviculture and arboriculture for timber production
- Wood Harvesting and Safety in Forestry Operations
- Soil Ecology
- Environmental Chemistry of Urban and Forest Ecosystems
- Soil Protection and Conservation and Watersheds Planning
- Soil Protection and Conservation and Hydraulic Rehabilitation
- Watersheds Planning and Management
- Plant diseases and phytosanitary protection
- Diseases of green areas and of ornamental plants
- Integrate Protection of the Forest Systems
- Natural and Cultivated Mountain Systems
Second year
- Forest Fire Protection
- Economics and Environment Appraisal
- Ethology and wildlife management
- Landscape planning and infrastructures in agro-forestry areas
- Electives
- Final project
- Laboratory of GIS
- Apprenticeship Training and Guidance
- Internship
Program taught in:
- English
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