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Tropical Forestry and Agroforestry – (M.Sc.)

Czech University of Life Sciences Prague

Faculty of Forestry and Wood Sciences
Application Deadline: Exchange students - 15 June for the Winter Semester, 15 December for the Summer Semester; Degree students: 15 February
Annual Tuition Fee: ≈ € 3,200 -
Location: Prague / Czech Republic / View location on map ▾ Hide location on map ▴
Duration: 24 months Start Date: September
Educational Form:
  • Taught
Education Variants:
  • Fulltime
Languages: English 
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Location of Czech University of Life Sciences Prague

* Graduates have knowledge in the World, including problems of forest ecosystems conservation and their expansion on larger area, with direction to tropics and subtropics. Their knowledge covers also area of water management, i.e. problems of water in landscape, its conservation, including some technical measures. Graduates know expert methods of forest and landscape revitalisation, destroyed by human activities.
* They have knowledge specific economic consequences characteristic for forest, water and environmental management and landscape revitalisation, according to biotic and abiotic factors and also to specific economic conditions of the developing countries in tropics and subtropics. Knowledge concerns latest findings in the field.
* The graduates knowledge serves as a basis for seminal thoughts for research. Graduates have critical awareness of the problems relating to their area of studies and interactions with areas, such as water management, landscape planning, nature conservation and technical measures in tropics and subtropics specific conditions. They understand principles of forest management, afforestation and reforestation.
* They know to manage forests strongly influenced by air pollution expanded agriculture and grazing. They also know methods landscape revitalisation as after floods as during the lack of the water (especially quality of the drinking water). However, they have knowledge of biological relationships on technical impacts to landscape and vice versa. They know problems of wildlife management in National Parks (Reseres) in tropics and subtropics and also problems of agriculture and pasture impact in these areas.
* They understand theories, concepts and methods, which correspond to employment in managerial shperes: forest and agriculture productions, services, trade, state administrancy, inernational organisations and corporations and NGOs.
* They can reliable apply their expertise and understanding in a creative and self reliant way for solving even unstructured problems in the areas of production, trade and services, state administration and self governance, international organisations and NGOs.
* They are able to solve complicated and unexpected problems professionally and search for original solutions. They are capable practically use their knowledge for realization thir own business plan and firm operation and also they can work as an expert advisor.


Contents

* 1st year

Compulsory Subjects

Forest management in TS

Forest Protection in TS

Forest Ecology

Agricultural Economics and of Natural Resources in TS

Silviculture in tropics and subtropics

Dendrology

Classification of Vegetation

Remote Sensing

* 2nd year

Compulsory Subjects

Agricultural Extension in Tropics and Subtropics

Water Management

MSc. Thesis

Irrigation and Drainage

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Requirements

* Graduates from BSc programme Forest Engineering or BSc graduates with a solid background in forestry, forestry biology, mathematics, environmental management and wild game management, are the preferred candidates for the MSc programme.
* Applicants must present a recognised and officialised BSc diploma in order to be enrolled in MSc degree studies.
* The programme is open for exchange students for one semester or one academic year in the framework of the EU LLP ERASMUS programme.

Additional Requirements

Minimal degree required: Bachelor's degree
Minimal amount of work experience Not specified

Accreditation

All study programmes taught at CULS are officially accredites by the the Czech Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports.


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