Natural Resource Conservation and Management
Learn to work in a multifaceted management environment that integrates the ecological, 社会, 文化, political and economic dimensions of natural resources management.
研究生s of the program will be able to:
- Provide leadership to communities as they adapt to changing economic conditions while 维护ing ecological integrity
- Implement best practices in 战略规划, development of organizational missions and design and 实现 of evaluation/monitoring programs
- Apply principles of sustainability to solve problems across political boundaries
- Identify opportunities for collaboration and public participation around resource-based issues
- Create and 维护 effective working partnerships under a range of socio-economic conditions
关键的事实
As a freshman you will have a variety of courses directly related to your major. In your first semester you’ll learn about the management of the Adirondack Park (the largest park in the continental U.S.); meet with natural resource professionals from forest rangers to climate change specialists; become acquainted with the ecology of the region; learn to identify plants and animals; navigate in the forest and understand the complex and unique ecosystems that make up the Adirondacks. In short, you’ll learn by getting your boots muddy and your paddle wet!
As a senior you will complete a Capstone Course. Some Capstone Research Projects students have presented:
- White-tailed Deer Browse Preference: A Comparative Study of the Catskill and Adirondack Mountain Regions, 纽约州
- Alpine Ecosystems on Ski Area Summits in the Northeast: A Best Management Practices Manual
- Designing a Multiple-Use Winter Recreation Trail System at the Paul Smith’s College 访问or Interpretive Center
- Monitoring the Zebra Mussel Invasion Front: Use of New Technology
- Reintroduction Feasibility of the Adirondack Wolf
职业选择
- 保护官
- 环境al Technician
- 博物学家
- 环境法律
- 社区规划
- Resource Policy Analyst
- Natural Resource Manager
课程 & 目标
At the end of the program students will be able to:
- Explain the historical role and value of science in policy formation designed to protect, 维护, and restore natural and human altered environments.
- Articulate the differences between inductive and deductive methods of scientific inquiry as each pertain to gaining reliable knowledge.
- Teach students to articulate complex scientific and 社会 issues into a language which is useful and meaningful to the general public.
- Explain the implications of the relationship of cumulative environmental impacts on the resilience of ecosystems, biomes and the biosphere.
- Apply basic principles of sustainability to problem solving across political boundaries.
- Delineate the management environment in ecological, economic, political, and socio-文化 terms.
- Define the cyclic management process as related to an organization’s mission 状态ment, 战略规划, 评估, 实现, and evaluation/monitoring program.
- Articulate the appropriateness of sustainable management models or approaches used to address resource management issues.
- Demonstrate basic knowledge of management and communication needed to work effectively with stakeholders in integrated natural resource management teams.
- Articulate the role of the political process in affecting change in policy and regulations at local, 状态, national and international scales.
- Develop evaluation and monitoring techniques which facilitate 社会 and economic tenets in the management process.
- Identify opportunities for collaboration and public participation around resource-based issues and define steps to create and 维护 effective collaborations under a range of 社会-economic conditions.
- Apply adaptive management approaches to increase the capacity of human communities to change with economic conditions while 维护ing ecological integrity.
样本课程:
- Intro to 环境 and 社会
- Conservation Law Enforcement
- 树木学
- 保护生物学
- Natural Resources Economics
- 可持续发展
- 环境影响
- 生态
- 流域管理
More program information and a full course list can be found in the 大学目录. For program planning sheets, 点击这里.
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