Educational objectives – professional opportunities for graduates

The course provides for advanced education in the professional and research topics in the field of Forest and Environmental Sciences. It gives the students competences to solve complex problems in the field of planning, management and conservation of forest ecosystems, territorial and soil defence, conservation, organisation both of the production chain and of the technological upgrading of wooden products.

Graduates will strengthen their basic knowledge in specific fields such as Chemistry, Vegetal Biology, Economics, Systems Ecology which are indispensable for completing their education. This course is designed to offer specific professional knowledge through the analysis of silviculture applications in the Mediterranean area, applied study of soil sciences, applied hydraulics and hydraulic-forest arrangements for territorial preservation.

This course builds on technical competences acquired during the first cycle of study. The students of this course learn how to organise a campaign of dendro–auxometric and stational surveys for the preparation of complex plans which aim at an in-depth evaluation of the evolution of the topsoil and other parts of the territory and landscape, and at the application of silviculture in articulated forest topsoils.

Graduates will also gain proficiency in sectoral regulations with respect to the European Union, forest economics and land valuation, so that they may carry out autonomous professional activities such as planning and settlement of big farms and territorial plans, evaluation of complex landed properties, articulated technical equipment, forest plants and product chains, afforestation plans and evaluations, forest work for land use and upgrading, rural development and technical-economic management of big farms, protected areas and transformation companies.

Upon graduation students will come away with specific knowledge and necessary tools for an in-depth analysis of hydro-geological and erosive risk situations and for the identification of effective and sustainable solutions. They will be able to carry out the relevant planning and management activities in complex contexts. As a matter of fact, the course provides for advanced study of soil quality and of the assessment of its characteristics as well as of pedotechnics and subjects related to soil defence, such as arrangements of mountain basins and techniques of naturalist engineering. Graduates will acquire in-depth knowledge in the field of applied ecology and surveying techniques of qualitative-quantitative characters of forest topsoils, the most recent methodologies for planning complex systems, creating and managing interventions in the forest and pre-forest environments, as well as those for planning of protected areas, fire-fighting planning and forest inventories.