Ecosystémes, Paysages et

Gestion du Patrimoine
Programme
• 1. Heritage, landscape and Ecosystem. Heritage as a paradigm of
relationships between man and nature.
• 2. What ecosystems are and how they work
Ecosystems: units of sustainability; how they work; in and out of
balance; adapting to change; urban allotments; montado; forest and
urban spaces
• 3. Cultural Landscape: an integrator element of natural heritage
Ecosystems and landscapes; carrying capacity; landscape and heritage
values; landscape and the structural elements
• 4. Relationship between Natural and Cultural Landscape
Classes
• 13 September - Dissertations
• 20 September – General Presentation
• 27 September – My Presentation. Ecosystem concept. Landscape concept
• 04 October – Montado. Ecossystem and Landscape
• 11 October – “Minas de S. Domingos” Heritage
• 18 October - “Pó de vir a ser” visit to a former slaugther house
• 25 October – Domingos Lopes “Foz Coa”
• 08 November – Allotment gardens and urban open spaces ecosystems and landscape
• 15 November –Heritage versus Landscape
• 22 November – Landscape and the UNESCO paradigma
• 29 November – Inventory and Landscape
• 06 December – Support to Work Presentation
• 13 December –Works presentation
Conferences and Field Trips
There will be conferences and field trips:

Freixo do Meio Farm

Allotment gardens
Museums
Monasteries
Pó de vir a ser (former slaughterhouse)
...
Evaluation
• Students should develop a work that relate ecosystems/landscape
with heritage and their dissertations work. This work should help to
the construction of a chapter or part of a chapter of their
dissertations. It must be a written report and its oral presentation, as
a result of a regular paper or poster.

• The report should have the maximum of 10 pages in times new roman
font, size 12, space 1,5, including figures, images, pictures, etc. The
report’s weight in final evaluation will be 60% and the oral
presentation 40%.