Preparing students for the operational environmental career: an integrated project-based road map for academic programs

Corrado Battisti ()
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Corrado Battisti: ‘Torre Flavia’ LTER (Long Term Ecological Research) Station

Journal of Environmental Studies and Sciences, 2018, vol. 8, issue 4, No 22, 573-583

Abstract: Abstract Although in academic courses of environmental disciplines, students may receive an interdisciplinary training on a VTR logic (V: “ecosystem Values”, T: anthropogenic Threats; R: conservation Responses), rarely they are prepared to work according to a problem solving and decision making approach, simulating operational circumstances in real project contexts. I propose a re-thinking of the teaching activity in academic conservation courses with a main focus on an operational project cycle. I reviewed a large number of trans-disciplinary conceptual tools and approaches developed by professionals and organizations belonging to the large arena of management disciplines, also not strictly related to the conservation world. I included these approaches and tools in a comprehensive framework following a project logic. This road map could be useful to communicate an operational approach to students in environmental conservation.

Keywords: IUCN project cycle; Knowledge-action divide; Graduate program; Modular framework; Project management (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
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DOI: 10.1007/s13412-018-0506-5

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