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| ORM7162 | Forest Functions and Determining Man. Goals | 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 | | 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: | | This course aims to get the student comprehend the fundamental concepts and principal components related to goal establishment phases of decision making, forest enterprise as system classification forest management goals methods to evaluate alternative forest management goals, case studies. |
| Programme Outcomes | CTPO | TOA | | Upon successful completion of the course, the students will be able to : | | | | PO - 1 : | Handle different forest functions like water quality, soil loss, and aesthetics. | 4,8 | 1,3 | | PO - 2 : | Digitizing forest functions related to forest stand parameters. | 4,10 | 4 | | PO - 3 : | Select the management goals of the selected forest enterprise using optimization techniques. | 6 | 4,6 | | PO - 4 : | Show and discuss the outputs of the built models. | 1,2 | 4,6 | | 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 | | |
| Economic, ecological and social values of forests, criteria and indicators of these functions, mapping of these values, functional inventory, implementation of forestry goals, relations between forest functions and forest compositions, and practices of these concepts. |
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| Course Syllabus | | Week | Subject | Related Notes / Files | | Week 1 | Introduction to the course | | | Week 2 | economic values of forests | | | Week 3 | social values of forests | | | Week 4 | ecological values of forests | | | Week 5 | criteria and indicators of these functions, | | | Week 6 | functional inventory, | | | Week 7 | mid term exam 1 | | | Week 8 | Mid-term exam | | | Week 9 | mapping of forest functions | | | Week 10 | implementation of forestry goals, | | | Week 11 | practices of these concepts | | | Week 12 | project work -1 | | | Week 13 | project work-2 | | | Week 14 | project presentaiton | | | Week 15 | term project | | | Week 16 | End-of-term exam | | | |
| 1 | Lawrence S. Davis, K. Norman Johnson, Pete Bettinger, and Theodore E. Howard 2002. Forest Management, To Sustain Ecological, Economic, and Social Values, 4th Edition, USA | | | |
| 1 | Eraslan İ, ve Eler, Ü., 2003. Orman İşletmelerinin Planlanması ve Denetimi. SDÜ, Isparta | | | 2 | Pete Bettinger, K. Boston, JP. Sıry, DL. Grebner 2009. Forest Management and Planning, Elsevier, USA | | | 3 | William A. Leuschner. 1991, Introduction to Forest Resource Management | | | |
| Method of Assessment | | Type of assessment | Week No | Date | Duration (hours) | Weight (%) | | Mid-term exam | 7 | 04/11/2009 | 60 | 30 | | Project | 12
13 | 9/12/2009
16/12/2009 | 60 | 5 | | Presentation | 14 | 21/12/2009 | 60 | 5 | | Homework/Assignment/Term-paper | 15 | 28/12/2009 | 60 | 10 | | End-of-term exam | 16 | 04/01/2010 | 60 | 50 | | |
| Student Work Load and its Distribution | | Type of work | Duration (hours pw) | No of weeks / Number of activity | Hours in total per term | | Proje | 5 | 4 | 20 | | Kısa sınav | 1 | 1 | 1 | | Total work load | | | 21 |
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