European Union Environmental DirectivesStart Oct 2010

Master Landscape Architecture – Specialization

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Master Landscape Architecture – SpecializationEuropean Union Environmental Directives

Contents and Goals• Through its environmental directives and supporting programs the European

Union defines the environmental policy of its member states. Most important instruments are the „Habitats“ Directive and „Water Framework“ Directive as well as the “Strategic Environmental Assessment” and the “Environmental Impact Assessment”.

• These instruments are creating a huge potential for jobs and the demand for professionals in ecology and resource management as well as EU legislation.

• The 4 semester Masters degree course is characterized by: - project- and concept-oriented work on scientific base- internationalization, cooperation with other European Union universities

• The course qualifies students in:- analyzing of complex problems and development of innovative solutions, - working independently with the European Unions planning, control and support instruments,

- fill a leading position in landscape architecture and environmental agencies as well as public authorities and respective institutions in Germany and Europe.

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Formalities• consecutive Master degree course „Master of Engineering“ at Landscape

Architecture - Specialization European Union Environmental Directives

• Entrance Requirementsrecognized Bachelor or Diploma degree with an average grade of B or higher from Germany or other countries in the subject Landscape architecture or other comparative (planning – spatial planning) subjects

Start of studies • only at the winter semester

Application period: 15.05. to 01.09. in the current year

Specific Features• This is the first master degree course in German spoken areas in Europe. It

includes the whole field of European and international environmental directives

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1st and 2nd Semester

Key Qualifications

Goals & Contents• acquisition of "soft skills" as well as stabilizing and extending

acquirements at foreign languages as an essential requirement for the commitment in the European context

• getting to know the opportunities of conflict management, negotiation direction and techniques of moderation and mediation

• Basics of project development and fundraising• interpretation of regional Governance processes and their usability

in the scientific context

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1st and 2nd Semester

Geographical Information Systems

Goals & Contents• terms & structure of Geographical Information

Systems (GIS); fields of applications; components and modular structure; data acquisition; spatial reference systems; data acquisition from topological conditions, official GIS-products and data sources; acquisitions of data sources, data structures and types; combination of data types; data quality; data evaluation and - documentation; data storage and mining

• basics of explorative data analysis by GIS and spatial databases; processing location based information

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3rd Semester

Cross Section Projects

Goals & Contents• Corporation of all master students from different specializations in landscape

architecture in a common project and a public presentation

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1st Semester

European Union Environmental Directives

Goals & Contents:• Introduction into the goals and contents of the

more important international and European environmental directives and their implementation in the European Union countries

• United Nations’ Convention on Biological Diversity and Framework Convention on Climate Change

• NATURA 2000, EU Water Framework Directive• Environmental impact assessment,

Environmental impact statement• Giving an overview of actual EU environmental

directives and the consequences regard to planning processes

• Getting to know the most important political and administrative processes within the EU member states

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1st Semester Project Convention on Biological Diversity and Convention on Climate Change

Goals & Contents:• Analysis of the ecological and economical

effects of climate change and the loss of biodiversity

• Planning implementation of goals of the Convention on Biological Diversity and Convention on Climate Protection in the national legislation

• Projects in landscape planning strategies to reduce the climate change and support biodiversity in the European ecosystem

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2nd Semester

System Natura 2000

Goals & Contents• Knowledge acquisition about the contents,

structure and protection of the “NATURA 2000“ network and their promotion instruments

• Knowledge acquisition about European Union species and habitat types

• Working with methods to discern, comprehend and evaluate European Union habitats

• International workshop in co-operation with colleagues from different EU countries to work with EU habitats and species

• www.fh-erfurt.de/la/tagliamento

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2nd Semester

Project Impact Assessment

Goals & Contents:• Solid skills to implement preliminary

assessments of “Natura 2000“ areas • Procuring methods of preliminary assessments

of Natura 2000 and species protection contributions with their respective specific (conservation measure, establishing bans)

• Application of evaluation methods• Procuring of knowledge acquisitions about

ecological features of EU species• Implementation within an example

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3rd SemesterProject EU Water Framework Directive

Goals & Contents:• Waterways development plans for the

Water Framework Directive• Development of alternatives for natural

river engineering measures in the area of the water bodies (in relation to water types and landscape) with the possibilities of ecological and biotechnical construction techniques

• Integration of the EU Habitat Directive within the Water Directive

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3rd Semester Project Environmental Impact Statement, Environmental impact Assessment

Goals & Contents:• Purchasing of practical skills for

implementations an Environmental impact statement or an Environmental impact assessment according to National Environmental Policy Act

• Working out essential elements of environmental impact study for special projects (examples: road construction projects, wind farms, leisure facilities or other projects according to National Environmental Policy Act) or working out an environmental report for functional planning

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4th Semester

Project EU Habitat Directive Management Plan

Goals & Contents:• Methods to work out Habitats Directive

Management plans • Species protection programs for EU

priority species• Project to survey and evaluate EU

Habitat Directive area and working out a management plan

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Recommended Selectives

Water • Internalizing the contents of the Water Framework

Directives (water balance, models of precipitation and stream flow)

• Comprehending existing conditions of qualitative parameters and integration in planning on example projects

• Acquisition of water types for development of guiding principles

Soil and Growing Medium• Comprehensive knowledge about the different types of soil

and growing medium• Practical courses in field and laboratory

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Recommended Selectives

Construction document phase

• practical construction document phase

• measurement of results of mitigation measure & environmental compensation measure

Landscape Aesthetics

• Landscape aesthetics

• perception of a landscape

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Recommended Selectives

Landscape Management

• Comprehensive knowledge about

restoration ecology

• project of landscape management

Remote Sensing

• Interpretation of landscape and acquisition of

special areas of conservation with

remote sensing methods

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Person responsible of modules at the University

Prof. Dr. habil. Norbert Grosser, Department of Animal Ecology

Prof. Dipl. Ing. Rolf Johannsen, Department of Bioengineering

Prof. Dr. Franz Laufke, Department of Computer Science , Mathematics

Prof. Dr. habil. Ilke Marschall, Department of Landscape Planning

Prof. Dr. Hans-Heinrich Meyer, Department of Soil Science and Site Ecology

Prof. Dr. habil. Norbert Müller, Department of Landscape Management & Restoration Ecology

Dean of study landscape architecture

More Information ct. http://www.fh-erfurt.de/lgf/la/lehrende/

For more detailed information Prof. Dr. habil. Norbert Müller

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