Competencies and objectives

 

Course context for academic year 2025-26

This subject is inserted in module III (Analysis of natural risks) which aims to train students in the Identification and Assessment of risks, through knowledge of the different instruments and actions aimed at their diagnosis, assessment and evaluation.

 

 

Course competencies (verified by ANECA in official undergraduate and Master’s degrees) for academic year 2025-26

Skills/Skills

  • CE4 : Manage geographic information technologies applied to mapping, planning and management of natural risks.
  • CG2 : Make decisions and solve problems in risky territories.
  • CG3 : Develop individual and group learning skills.

 

Conocimientos/Contenidos

  • CE2 : Understand natural hazard phenomena at different territorial scales.
  • CE7 : Design and manage projects for analysing and proposing risk reduction and emergency management.
  • CG4 : Apply the knowledge of risk management to the practice of territorial planning.

 

Skills/Competences

  • CE3 : Understand the importance of interrelating the physical environment with the social and economic factors of the territory in the genesis and accentuation of natural risks.
  • CE5 : Manage and apply the fieldwork technique to the analysis and diagnosis of risk areas.
  • CE6 : Prepare, process, interpret and present data using quantitative techniques appropriate for risk analysis.
  • CG1 : Analyze, interpret and critically evaluate the results obtained.

 

 

 

Learning outcomes (Training objectives)

No data

 

 

Specific objectives stated by the academic staff for academic year 2025-26

- Identify the role of fire as a selective and structuring factor in the Mediterranean context.

- Classify the types of fires and explain the basic features of each one of them.

- Know the risk factors and their application for risk prediction.

- Analyze the elements of prevention and their applications for risk reduction.

- Diagnose what a pest is and know its different levels of damage.

- Know the different methods of pest control, their advantages and disadvantages.

- Know and identify the most important pests in forest environments, evaluation of their damage and possible origin.

- Know the biology of the main pest species, their damage and their control methods.

 

 

General

Code: 38821
Lecturer responsible:
Baeza Berná, Manuel Jaime
Credits ECTS: 3,00
Theoretical credits: 0,60
Practical credits: 0,60
Distance-base hours: 1,80

Departments involved

  • Dept: ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES AND NATURAL RESOURCES
    Area: ZOOLOGY
    Theoretical credits: 0,3
    Practical credits: 0,3
  • Dept: ECOLOGY
    Area: ECOLOGY
    Theoretical credits: 0,3
    Practical credits: 0,3
    This Dept. is responsible for the course.
    This Dept. is responsible for the final mark record.

Study programmes where this course is taught