Landscape, Heritage and Ecosystems

Code: PAO13185M

6 ECTS

Duration: 15 weeks/156 hours

Scientific Area: Environment and Ecology Sciences

Teaching languages: Portuguese

Languages of tutoring support: Portuguese, English

Regime de Frequência: Presencial

Sustainable Development Goals

Educação de qualidade - Assegurar a educação inclusiva, e equitativa e de qualidade, e promover oportunidades de aprendizagem ao longo da vida para todos.

Learning Goals

- Knowledge of relationships between elements of patrimonial interest, natural and built up ones, and the landscape, according different conceptual and methodological perspectives.
- Comprehension and approach to heritage as paradigm of relations between Mankind and Nature
- Enhancement of dynamics how between landscape and heritage value; therefore the need of its conservation and valorisation should be done in a context of sustainable development.
Competences
Capability of comprehension of the relationships between Heritage and Landscape allowing to understand and even intervene in a professional perspective mostly in actions of landplaning and put heritage in value.

1. What are Ecosystems?
2. What is Heritage?
3. What is Landscape?
4. Landscape and Ecosystems
5. Landscape and Heritage

Teaching Methods

- Classes in classroom and outside
- Feld trips
- Continuous evaluation: A report about a specific landscape (40%). Poster presentation and discussion about the developed report (60%)
- Final exam A report about a landscape and its presentation and discussion in a poster (100%).
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