{"id":545,"date":"2015-07-17T11:31:56","date_gmt":"2015-07-17T18:31:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/apfnet01\/?page_id=545"},"modified":"2015-12-16T13:38:26","modified_gmt":"2015-12-16T20:38:26","slug":"module-vi-objectives","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/apfnet01\/module-vi\/module-vi-objectives\/","title":{"rendered":"Module VI: Objectives"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The objective of this module is to provide you with an introduction to\u00a0the planning and implementation of sustainable forest management. This is a very complex subject, and one that requires a variety of skills. You will be introduced to a variety of techniques, including adaptive management, planned interventions, public participation and decision support systems, and will also learn how to tell if you have succeeded in implementing sustainable forest management.<\/p>\n<h4>Relevant Components<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>Writing a forest management plan<\/li>\n<li>Achieving management goals through planned interventions<\/li>\n<li>Public participation in forest land-use decision-making<\/li>\n<li>Decision support systems to help forest managers<\/li>\n<li>Certification of forest management<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4>After taking this module, you should be able to:<\/h4>\n<ol>\n<li><strong> Describe the principles of adaptive management<\/strong>\n<ol type=\"a\">\n<li>Explain what a wicked problem is<\/li>\n<li>Explain the principles of adaptive management<\/li>\n<li>Describe how adaptive management can best be implemented<\/li>\n<li>Describe an example of adaptive management in practice<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong> Explain how management objectives can be achieved through planned interventions<\/strong>\n<ol type=\"a\">\n<li>Develop a forest management plan<\/li>\n<li>Distinguish between criteria, objectives, goals and strategies<\/li>\n<li>Explain how targets are set<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong> Identify some of the decision support systems that can be used to aid sustainable forest management<\/strong>\n<ol type=\"a\">\n<li>Describe how a decision needs to be structured<\/li>\n<li>Describe how the potential outcomes of a decision are defined<\/li>\n<li>Explain the differences between predictive and explorative approaches to decision-making<\/li>\n<li>Describe how decision support systems can be incorporated into a sustainable forest management plan<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong> Explain how the quality of forest management is assessed<\/strong>\n<ol type=\"a\">\n<li>Describe the process of forest certification<\/li>\n<li>Explain how the criteria and indicators of sustainable forest management relate to certification<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The objective of this module is to provide you with an introduction to\u00a0the planning and implementation of sustainable forest management. This is a very complex subject, and one that requires a variety of skills. You will be introduced to a variety of techniques, including adaptive management, planned interventions, public participation and decision support systems, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":469,"featured_media":0,"parent":508,"menu_order":2,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-545","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/apfnet01\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/545","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/apfnet01\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/apfnet01\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/apfnet01\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/469"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/apfnet01\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=545"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/apfnet01\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/545\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":981,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/apfnet01\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/545\/revisions\/981"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/apfnet01\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/508"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/apfnet01\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}