Wildland fire science and integrative management
Master
In Lleida (Spain)
*Indicative price
Original amount in EUR:
2,748 €

Description
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Type
Master
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Location
Lleida (Spain)
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Duration
1 Year
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Start date
October
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Credits
60
Lleida University coordinates this official inter-university Master's course with the participation of Cordoba University and Leon University. It will be taught face to face for a week a month at each university campus with no more than three times at each university per six-month period.
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About this course
European bachelor's degree or equivalent (Architecture, Engineering, etc.) accredited if it was gained at a university outside the EU. Specialising in direct access: forestry, forest industries, mountains and any degree that prepares students for the profession of forestry expert. Other graduates may access the course with complementary conditions.
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Subjects
- Simulation and analysis of forest fires
- Causality. Risk analysis models and factors
- Prescribed burns
- Ecology and the physics of fire
- Economy applied to defence against fires
- Extinction tactics and strategies
- Restoration of surfaces affected by fires
- Investigation of causes
- Preventative silviculture
- Overhead measures
- Techniques and means
- Integral fuel management
- Leadership in emergency management
- Emergency management and organisation
- Applied teledetection
- Work risks
- Ergonomics and nutrition
- Telecommunications in emergencies
Course programme
The Master's has four main modules:
- Module on forest fire technology and management
- Specialisation module
- Work experience module
- Master's thesis module
- Analysis and simulation of forest fires.
- Causality, factors and risk analysis models.
- Strategies and tactics of extinction.
- Physical and fire ecology.
- Investigation of causes.
- Management and Forest Landscape defense against wildfires.
- Restoration of areas affected by fires.
- Remote sensing applied.
- Applied Economics protection against forest fires.
- Preventive Forestry.
Wildland fire science and integrative management
*Indicative price
Original amount in EUR:
2,748 €