Module Identifier | BSM3530 | ||||||||||||||
Module Title | MANAGEMENT IN PRACTICE - COASTAL, ESTUARINE AND WETLANDS | ||||||||||||||
Academic Year | 2007/2008 | ||||||||||||||
Co-ordinator | Dr Joanne S Porter | ||||||||||||||
Semester | Semester 2 | ||||||||||||||
Other staff | Dr Joanne S Porter | ||||||||||||||
Assessment |
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Students are expected to:
Emphasis will be placed on management strategies (e.g. stakeholder concepts and no-take zones) and practical skills will be developed to sample/monitor effectively these different habitats. Students will learn the appropiate sampling methodology to address and answer different biological and ecological questions needed to manage effectively marine environments. Students will learn to consider the effectiveness of current monitoring strategies in the light of current European legislation. The integrated nature of different ecosystems will be stressed throughout as will the need for mulitple demands by a range of user groups.
The module will consider sampling strategies in marine and freshwater ecosystems where appropriate. Students will be trained in common sampling techniques and strategies with the emphasis on how these tools can be used to develop, implement and monitor management strategies (e.g. Special Areas of Conservation and reserve management/development). These will include the use of traditional survey techniques along with advances in technology including digital mapping and GIS techniques.
The coursework will encourage students to apply skills developed in the statistics and law modules to analyse and interpret the data that will be generated from sampling in the aquatic environment. Students will be shown how this information is used to formulate management plans and monitor aquatic communities, including assessing the impacts of habitat loss, pollution and climatic change. Throughout the course attention will be drawn to the multiple demands placed on different aquatic ecosystems by different fisheries, conservation and recreational groups, leading to the complex development of regional, national and global management plans. Students will have the opportunity to work alongside relevant consultants, industrial contracts and staff from conservation agencies to foster an understanding of the importance of liaison between such groups in the planning of new developments as well as the monitoring of current developments e.g. the petrochemical industry in Milford Haven.
This module is at CQFW Level 7