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About the Course
Conserving and restoring tropical forest landscapes offers an opportunity to address pressing environmental and social challenges. Effective conservation and restoration initiatives support multiple objectives, including ecosystem functioning, climate change mitigation and adaptation, food security, and economic growth.
This seven-week course explores the technical, social, and funding aspects of this timely topic. You will learn:
1. The importance of tropical forest landscapes and the actors and motivations driving restoration and conservation efforts.
2. How tropical forest ecosystems work, and how they relate to climate change and biodiversity.
3. Fundamental human dimensions to consider in any project, including human livelihoods and local property rights.
4. Conservation theory and dynamic aspects of conserving species and landscapes.
5. A spectrum of restoration strategies and key considerations for restoration, such as species selection and planting design.
6. How agroforestry systems can integrate trees and production to meet different goals.
7. Basic financial concepts and potential sources of conservation and restoration funding.
The materials in this course offer a selection of key content from the Yale School of the Environment and Yale Environmental Leadership & Training Initiative's yearlong Tropical Forest Landscapes: Conservation, Restoration & Sustainable Use online certificate program.
Top reviews
CB
Jul 2, 2022
The course gave me a cleared perspective and wider understanding on this very complicated issue of tropical forest restoration, and tropical conservation.
RR
Sep 1, 2024
Extremely good overview of the range of pertinent topics and skills in conservation and restoration ecology, particularly in tropical forest ecosystems.
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By Jordy A
•Oct 12, 2024
Gracias por el curso
By Clara R
•Aug 25, 2024
Not what I expected, I hope you can add to the description of the course that the main subject is very social-focused and the lectures are in a format of zoom meeting with presentation (many people can't learn in that format and should know what they're paying for). Otherwise the course is ok. Not great, or good, but also not bad, so ok