Module 3.1

Participants will be introduced to a variety of values and competing interests in a forest. The course consists of online lectures, group forums, quizzes and a culminating assignment for the Module (DC). The participant must pass the quizzes for all lecture material before doing the culminating assignment. The culminating assignment will be submitted to the course instructors for assessment. Once the participant has successfully passed the quizzes and culminating assignment, the DC will be awarded.

Module Objectives

• Identify and describe the range of values (timber and non-timber) presented in the selected forest management plan.
• Identify the interests and rights present in a forest, including Aboriginal Peoples’ rights, claims and interests in forests, as
  well as the importance of implementing processes to determine and address them.
• Describe the requirements of, and interaction among, the values you listed in question 1.
• Describe the effect and implications of decisions aimed at a given set of objectives by comparing the ecological, social
  and economic trade-offs.
• Describe how values and competing interests are, or can be, weighed/balanced in decision making

Module Schedule

This course involves a combination of recorded lectures, readings, assignments and participation in semi-synchronous online discussion forums and synchronous tutorials with instructors and other participants over a 3-week period.

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