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| ORM7274 | Fires and Forest Resources Planning | 3+0+0 | ECTS:7.5 | | Year / Semester | Fall Semester | | Level of Course | Third Cycle | | Status | Elective | | Department | DEPARTMENT of FOREST ENGINEERING | | Prerequisites and co-requisites | None | | Mode of Delivery | Face to face, Practical | | Contact Hours | 14 weeks - 3 hours of lectures per week | | Lecturer | -- | | Co-Lecturer | None | | Language of instruction | Turkish | | Professional practise ( internship ) | None | | | | The aim of the course: | | To acquaint the students with the underlying principles in resource management in the face of fires, and difficulties encountered in the integration of fire concerns into management planning. |
| Programme Outcomes | CTPO | TOA | | Upon successful completion of the course, the students will be able to : | | | | PO - 1 : | define the underlying principles in resource management in the face of fires | 1,2,6 | 1,5 | | PO - 2 : | identify the factors affecting the integration process | 1,4,6 | 1,5,6 | | PO - 3 : | integrate forest fire concerns into forest management planning | 1,3,4,6,7 | 1,3,5,6 | | PO - 4 : | present a coherent account of the uncertainties and the changing objectives brought about by these uncertainties in the future | 1,3,4,6,7,8 | 1,3,5,6 | | PO - 5 : | prepare, discuss and present a evaluation report accordingly | 2,7,8 | 1,3,5,6 | | CTPO : Contribution to programme outcomes, TOA :Type of assessment (1: written exam, 2: Oral exam, 3: Homework assignment, 4: Laboratory exercise/exam, 5: Seminar / presentation, 6: Term paper), PO : Learning Outcome | | |
| Fire management, Temporal and spatial analysis of forest fires on forest ecosystems, Integration of forest fires into forest management planning, Factors affecting the integration process: Future uncertainties, difficulties in forecast and changing objectives |
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| Course Syllabus | | Week | Subject | Related Notes / Files | | Week 1 | Forest Types and Conditions | | | Week 2 | Forest Fire Types | | | Week 3 | Forest Structure and Fire Hazard | | | Week 4 | Characterization of Forest Fires
Size, Season | | | Week 5 | Fuel Management and Fuel Treatments
Principles of Establishing Fire Resistant Ecosystems, Fuel Management Goals, Fuel Management Strategies, Fuel Reduction, Fuel Isolation,Fuel Conversion | | | Week 6 | Fuel Management and Fuel Treatments
Fuel Treatmant Goals, Thinning, Pruning, Clear-Cutting | | | Week 7 | Landscape Management to Minimise Fire Hazard
Fuelbreaks and Area-Wide (block) Treatments, Road network, Water supply network,Fire fighting infrastructure network, | | | Week 8 | Mid-term exam | | | Week 9 | Modeling of Forest Fire and Forest Reseources and Analysis of The Factors affecting Planning Process
Modeling of Forest Fire to Forest Level Optimization, Modeling of Forest Fire to Landscape Level Optimization | | | Week 10 | Prescribed Burning
Burning Techniques | | | Week 11 | Prescribed Burning
Use of Prescribed Fire, Use of Prescribed Fire in Land Clearing, Use of Prescribed Fire in Wildlife Management, Use of Prescribed Fire in Fuels Management, Use of Prescribed Fire in Ecosystem Maintanence | | | Week 12 | Planning a Prescribed Fire | | | Week 13 | Fire and Urban Interaction
Management of Fire and Urban Interface, Fire hazards Reducement at the Urban-Wildland Interface | | | Week 14 | Presentations of Students? project | | | Week 15 | Presentations of Students? project | | | Week 16 | End-of-term exam | | | |
| 1 | Edward A. Johnson, Kiyoko Miyanishi, 2001. Forest fires : behavior and ecological effects, 594 p., San Diego, Calif. : Academic Press, Inc. | | | |
| 1 | Omi, Philip N., 2005. Forest fires : a reference handbook. 347 p., Santa Barbara, Calif. : ABC-CLIO | | | |
| Method of Assessment | | Type of assessment | Week No | Date | Duration (hours) | Weight (%) | | Mid-term exam | 8 | 11/11/2009 | 1,00 | 30 | | Presentation | 13
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15 | 9/12/2009
17/12/2009
25/12/2009 | 2,00 | 20 | | End-of-term exam | 16 | 12/01/2010 | 2,00 | 50 | | |
| Student Work Load and its Distribution | | Type of work | Duration (hours pw) | No of weeks / Number of activity | Hours in total per term | | Yüz yüze eğitim | 3 | 14 | 42 | | Sınıf dışı çalışma | 3 | 15 | 45 | | Arasınav için hazırlık | 6 | 2 | 12 | | Arasınav | 2 | 1 | 2 | | Ödev | 10 | 7 | 70 | | Dönem sonu sınavı için hazırlık | 15 | 2 | 30 | | Dönem sonu sınavı | 2 | 1 | 2 | | Total work load | | | 203 |
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