Regional themes Human-environmental land systems SoSe2023 (2SWS)

This course focuses on understanding human-environmental interactions as interrelated systems. We will cover the concept of land systems, learn about how humans are using Earth resources and their impacts by studying, in a practical way, land-use changes and habitat fragmentation. We will also learn how humans value the environment by expanding on the concept of Ecosystem services and calculating provisioning services spatially, and finally you will learn about tensions between land-users and their environment using an innovative exercise for detecting land conflicts and land-use changes. A mixture of lectures, debates, and computer labs will be used.

There is a final project in which students work during the last two weeks and results should be provided in the form of slides with comments.