Competencies and objectives

 

Course context for academic year 2021-22

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 content (verified by ANECA in official undergraduate and Master’s degrees)

General Competences (CG)

  • CG1 : Analyse, interpret and assess the results obtained in a critical fashion.
  • CG2 : Make decisions and solve problems in territories under risk.
  • CG3 : Interpret and assess the results obtained in critical fashion.
  • CG4 : Organise and lead multidisciplinary risk management teams.
  • CG5 : Recognise competence and learning abilities at individual and group level.
  • CG6 : Apply one's knowledge of risk management to spatial planning.
  • CG7 : Awareness of topics related to sustainable spatial development and the prevention of natural risks.

 

Specific Competences (CE)

  • CE2 : Understand the phenomena of natural hazards at different territorial levels.
  • 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.
  • CE4 : Master geographical information technologies applied to the planning and management of natural risks.
  • CE5 : Use Geographical Information Systems and prepare maps of natural risks.
  • CE6 : Master and apply fieldwork techniques to analysing and diagnosing areas of risk.
  • CE7 : Prepare, process, interpret and present data using quantitative techniques appropriate for risk analysis.
  • CE8 : Design and manage projects for analysing and proposing risk reduction and emergency management.

 

 

 

Learning outcomes (Training objectives)

No data

 

 

Specific objectives stated by the academic staff for academic year 2021-22

- 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 BERNA, 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