Sustainable Land Management and Conservation

The Master’s programme contains various stages for assessing the sustainability of (agro-)ecosystems and for developing management strategies considering the environment. Students will gain knowledge on topics such as the functioning of agro-ecosystems in different world regions or on potential measures for nature conservation of (partially) managed landscapes. Students will become skilled for communication with land users and other stakeholders or for planning conservation and sustainable land management. Thereby, students will be put into the position to apply and further develop tools in assessing and predicting impacts of land management on nature (e.g. field methods, computational models or laboratory methods). Graduates are able to work independently in planning and implementing nature conservation measures in agricultural landscapes, to work scientifically with the aforementioned knowledge and skills and to practically advise land users, especially farmers, in sustainable land management. The students will possess a background in basic knowledge and skills in the above-mentioned areas of competence that will be obtained during team projects of different problems in agroecology, nature conservation, and sustainable land management. In particular, they will be able to adjust to methodological, environmental and societal changes quickly. They will develop social competences, which will be refined during the applied and scientific study projects at different stages of the programme and in different team compositions. With this qualification, students will have gained knowledge and skills in the subject in order to accomplish the following: apply their knowledge and be able to integrate their ideas and problem-solving skills compile, assess and interpret relevant information make sound decisions when discoveries are made which concern social, environmental, commercial, scientific and ethical issues sustain the momentum of independent learning processes formulate and argue professional opinions/criteria be able to interact on a professional level with professionals and non-professionals work transdisciplinary and have the capability to take responsibility in teams