Integrate scientific, regulatory and practical issues
work competently/safely in the field/laboratory producing rebust data
Present their findings in teh generic format required for a consultant's report
Conduct searches using library, IT and database sources
Manage time efficiently by setting realistic goals and targets
Organise workloads within project teams.
Content
This module will be organised around specific examples of restoration or management problems in terrestial systems. Three of these examples will be based on desk studies where students will evaluate information provided and from relevant public sources (e.g. BAP plans) in order to produce an individual case study report. A further example will involve group work and the collection of primary data by students. As a preliminary stage in this exercise, student groups will produce tender documents settign out the plan of work with costs and objectives. Practical work may involve field survays and/or monitoring, and laboratory analyses as appropiate. The group report will consist of a fully retoration or management plan that included relevant aspects of regulation.
Aims
The module aims to provide an opportunity for students to apply knowledge gained from other modules within the context of realistic restoration or management scenarios. This will involve evaluation of information provided for or collected by students leading to the production of reports advising on resoration or management plans. Reports will include cnsideration of practical, cost and regulatory issues.
Module Skills
Reading Lists
Books
Dobson, M. C. (1993.) The potential for woodland establishment on landfill sites /M.C. Dobson and A.J. Moffat. 0117526789 Gilbert, O. L. (1998) Habitat creation and repair /Oliver L. Gilbert and Penny Anderson. 0198549679 ** Recommended Text
Helliwell, D.R. (1996) Case studies in vegetation change, habitat transference and habitat creation.
Reading Agricultural Consultants
Hester, R.E. & Harrison, R.M. (1997) Contaminated Land and its reclaimation (editors) Jordan, W.R., Gilpin, M.E. & Aber, J.D. (1987) Restoration ecology. A synthetic approach to ecological research.
Cambridge University Press
Joyce, C.B. & Max Wade, P. (1998) European wet grasslands : biodiverity, management and restoration.
John Wilet, Chichester
Kruger, E.L., Anderson, T.A., Coates, A.R. (1997) Phytoremediation of soil and water contaminants.
Washington, DC : American Chmical Society
Land Use Cosultants (1992) Amenity Reclamation of MIneral Workings.
HMSO, London
Land Use Consultants & Wardell Armstrong (1996) Reclamation of Damaged Land for NAture Conservation.
HMSO, London
Harris, J.A., Birch, P. & Palmer, J. (1996) Land Restoration and Reclamation. Principles and Practics.
Longan
ECU & RML (1994) The Reclamation and Managment of Metalliferous Mining Sites
HMSO
Mitchley, J., Burch, F. & Lawson, C. (1998) Habitat restoration project : development of monitoring guidlines.
English Nature, Peterborough
Payne, N.F. & Bryant, F.C. (1994) Techniques for wildlife habitat management of uplands.
New York : McGraw-Hill
Sutherland, W.J. & Hill, D.A. (1995) Managing habitats for conservation.
Cambridge University Press
WallisDeVries, M.F., Bakker, J.P., Van Wieren, S.E. (1998) Grazing and conservation management.
Kluwer academic, Dordrecht
Warren, A. & French, J.R. (2001) Habitat conservation : managing the physical environment.
Wiley, Chichester
Wheeler, B.D. & Shaw, S.C. (1995) Restoration of damaged peatlands: with particular reference to lowland raised bogs affected by peat extraction.
HMSO, London