Forestry

To provide students with the knowledge of to
the functioning of forest ecosystems, and the
principles and techniques of sustainable forest
management and planning, necessary for the
provision of ecosystem services for production
and regulation, with special reference to
biodiversity conservation and climate change
mitigation and adaptation.

Understand the effect of biotic and abiotic
factors on single trees, stands and forest
communities; recognize the forest types of
Lombardy and their environmental
preferences; describe quantitatively the
characteristics of a forest stand by field survey
and numerical processing of data, and
forecasting its evolution over time; understand
the relationships between forests, climate
change and biodiversity; quantify ecosystem
services and wood production that can be
expressed by a forest catchment; quantify the
vulnerability of forests to hydro-geological
hazards, climate change and wildfire; choose forest management strategies adequate to
provide the chosen ecosystem services and
guarantee their environmental, economic and
social sustainability; interpret and analyze
forest planning documents (II and III level
plans); design and write a harvest plan;
calculate mass, increment and harvest rate for
forest stands; describe with cartographic
methods the physical and ecological
characteristics of forest stands; understand and
apply national and regional forest regulations.