ECTS
4 credits
Component
Faculty of Science
Description
This UE is a first approach of Conservation Sciences according to the points of view of the various actors:
- scientific approach: fundamental and practical approach to the conservation and restoration of populations and communities
- societal approach: the role of the scientist in the management of species and ecological environments, and interactions with other conservation stakeholders (managers, local players)
- ethical approach: reflection on biodiversity values (quantifiable, preferential, normative) and their application according to different models, placed in a historical context (mainly ecosystem services and sustainable development)
Necessary prerequisites
- no pre-requisites in terms of EU validation, but must have taken the general ecology and evolutionary ecology courses required in L2 and L3S5
Knowledge control
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Organization (FDS or local) |
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Continuous control |
100 % |
1.5h lecture + 2 DM |
2 |
local |
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Oral |
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Further information
Manager(s) : Christophe Petit and Franck Richard
Contact details of manager(s) (tel/mail) : christophe.petit @ umontpellier.fr @, franck.richard @ umontpellier.fr @
Target skills
- Applications of organismal biology, evolutionary biology and ecology (health, agronomy, conservation, restoration)
- Know how knowledge is formed in different disciplines (hypotheses, experimental results, polemical results, mathematical theorems, scientific facts).
- Know how to search for and extract information critically, prioritize sources of information and identify their reliability, and produce a summary.
- Successful project management within a group
- Be able to develop a logical argument with a critical mind (limits, confrontation with the biblio, defense of a point of view).