Forest Open Up Networks, Environmental Road Construction & Forest transportations

Course Information
TitleΔίκτυα Διάνοιξης Δάσους-Περιβαλλοντική Οδοποιία και Δασικές μεταφορές / Forest Open Up Networks, Environmental Road Construction & Forest transportations
CodeΜ22-ΑΔ
FacultyAgriculture, Forestry and Natural Environment
SchoolForestry and Natural Environment
Cycle / Level2nd / Postgraduate
Teaching PeriodWinter
CommonYes
StatusActive
Course ID600016345

Programme of Study: Sustainable Management of Forest and Natural Ecosystems: Protection, Production and Exploitation

Registered students: 10
OrientationAttendance TypeSemesterYearECTS
Oikología-Prostasía-Diatīrīsī FýsīsElective Courses belonging to the otherWinter-5
Techniká Érga, Paragōgī kai Axiopoíīsī Xylṓdous ViomázasElective Courses belonging to the selected specializationWinter-5
Diacheírisī-Anáptyxī Dasṓn & Fysikṓn PórōnElective Courses belonging to the otherWinter-5

Class Information
Academic Year2023 – 2024
Class PeriodWinter
Faculty Instructors
Class ID
600245142
Course Type 2021
Specialization / Direction
Course Type 2011-2015
Knowledge Deepening / Consolidation
Mode of Delivery
  • Face to face
  • Distance learning
Digital Course Content
Erasmus
The course is also offered to exchange programme students.
Language of Instruction
  • Greek (Instruction, Examination)
  • English (Instruction, Examination)
  • German (Instruction)
Prerequisites
General Prerequisites
Need to Know: 1) How to build a technical work construction within a natural environment 2) To Write a Technical Reporting Pension 3) To combine technical knowledge with forest legislation
Learning Outcomes
The purpose of the course is to fulfilling the following objectives: 1. Establishment of grouped courses based on research and market service requirements(Module). 2. facilitates the smooth transition from the university to the working market, which is decisive for professional success, but also personal satisfaction and adaptation of Students in working rights. 3. Partially connects the curriculum with the working area assisting Professional inclusion of graduates. 4. Associations to reduce unemployment in upgrading degrees with certified knowledge to Professional rights. 5. Emphasizes internship, which strengthens the professional skills of his / her students and make them more ready / ready for their profession or for action in the educational field. 6. Combines legal, technical and environmental dimensions related to the entire spectrum of the study, Making, manufacturing, maintenance and their impact on forest forest ecosystem transport facilities.
General Competences
  • Apply knowledge in practice
  • Retrieve, analyse and synthesise data and information, with the use of necessary technologies
  • Adapt to new situations
  • Make decisions
  • Work autonomously
  • Work in teams
  • Work in an international context
  • Work in an interdisciplinary team
  • Generate new research ideas
  • Design and manage projects
  • Respect natural environment
  • Advance free, creative and causative thinking
Course Content (Syllabus)
It is to familiarize students, at a theoretical and practical level, on specific issues related to Forest opening networks Environmental road and forest application machines. The participants in the PMS will become capable during their studies:  Understand the Principles of Opening the Forest  Perceive the factors that affect the opening of the forest  Indicate the advantages and disadvantages of opening networks  Choose on the basis of the requirements of a project for the plunder and delicate opening  Gain practical training to carry out a qualitative research  Attend and design micro-service and macrotection of wood  Collect data for forest roads with environmental criteria  Do designing a design, design and construction of a forest road with environmental criteria  Draw a forest road improvement study and propose use of ecological materials or Recyclable on the basis of the European Union's requirements  Evaluate what criteria are environmentally friendly for the construction of forest roads thus reducing the likelihood of a burden of any type of natural environmental pollution  Improve forest roads by methods, materials and instruments of environmentally friendly and choose appropriate machines  Use the appropriate machine according to the forest application for which used  They appreciate the performance of forestry machinery
Keywords
road net planning in forest, Forest Road Construction, Maintenance, Forest Logistic, Environmental Impact Factor (from road construction)
Educational Material Types
  • Notes
  • Multimedia
  • Interactive excersises
Use of Information and Communication Technologies
Use of ICT
  • Use of ICT in Course Teaching
  • Use of ICT in Laboratory Teaching
  • Use of ICT in Communication with Students
  • Use of ICT in Student Assessment
Course Organization
ActivitiesWorkloadECTSIndividualTeamworkErasmus
Lectures2
Seminars2
Fieldwork4
Reading Assigment4
Project6
Written assigments16
Total34
Student Assessment
Description
Writing and verbal examination, verbal evaluation of know how in every sector of course, team projects, personal research paper and in person presentation of the research at audience.
Student Assessment methods
  • Written Assignment (Summative)
  • Oral Exams (Formative, Summative)
  • Performance / Staging (Formative, Summative)
  • Report (Summative)
  • Labortatory Assignment (Formative, Summative)
Bibliography
Course Bibliography (Eudoxus)
Kroth, W., 1973.Entscheidungsgrundlagen bei Walderschließungs- investitionen. Forstwissenschaftliches Centralblatt, is.92(1), p.p.132-151, Germany.  Κοφίτσας Ι., 1997. Στοιχεία Οδοποιίας. ΑΘΗΝΑ.  Μήντσης Γ., Νικολαΐδης Α., Τσώχος Γ., 1992. Καταγραφή και ανάλυση των χαρακτηριστικών της κυκλοφορίας των βαρέων οχημάτων σε τμήματα των εθνικών οδών. 1ο Πανελλήνιο Συνέδριο ασφαλτοσκυροδέματος και εύκαμπτων οδοστρωμάτων, Θεσσαλονίκη.  Μουρατίδης Α., 1994α. Χωματουργικές εργασίες και τεχνικά έργα οδοποιίας. Θεσσαλονίκη.  Μουρατίδης Α., 1994β. ∆ιαχείριση οδών και οδικών έργων. Θεσσαλονίκη.  Νικολαΐδης Α.Φ. 1996. Οδοποιία – Οδοστρώματα – Υλικά – Έλεγχος ποιότητας. Θεσσαλονίκη.  Στεργιάδης Γ.Χ., 1977. Το οδικό δίκτυο στο Πανεπιστημιακό ∆άσος Ταξιάρχη. Επιστημονική Επετηρίδα Γ.∆. Σχολής του Α.Π.Θ., Τόμος Κ, Θεσσαλονίκη.  Στεργιάδης Γ.Χ. και Kuonen V., 1978. Σταθεροποίηση εδαφών με ασβέστη. ∆οκιμές καταλληλότητας με εδάφη από περιοχές των πανεπιστημιακών δασών Περτουλίου και Ταξιάρχη. Τόμ. 21, αρίθμ. 12, Θεσσαλονίκη.  Στεργιάδης Γ.X., και Εσκίογλου Π., 1989. Η δυνατότητα σταθεροποίησης των εδαφών με το οργανικό πολυμερές RRP-235. Επιστημονική επετηρίδα Τμήματος ∆ασολογίας και Φ.Π. Τόμος ΛΒ/3, Θεσσαλονίκη.  Στεργιάδης Γ.Χ., 1989. ∆ασική Οδοποιία, Α’ & Β ́ μέρος. Θεσσαλονίκη.  Στεργιάδης Χ. Γ., 2000. Τεχνολογίες και πρακτική περιβαλλοντικής προσαρμογής γεωτεχνικών έργων, αντιστηρίξεις, επιχώματα, ορύγματα και είσοδοι σηράγγων. Μεταπτυχιακή εργασία Τμήματος Πολιτικών Μηχανικών Αριστοτελείου Πανεπιστημίου, Θεσσαλονίκη.  Στεργιάδης, Χ. Γ., 2005. Σχεδιασμός νέων μοντέλων οδοστρωσίας υπό το πρίσμα των φθορών και των μηχανικών ιδιοτήτων των εδαφών (Doctoral dissertation, Αριστοτέλειο Πανεπιστήμιο Θεσσαλονίκης (ΑΠΘ). Σχολή Γεωτεχνικών Επιστημών. Τμήμα Δασολογίας και Φυσικού Περιβάλλοντος. Τομέας Δασοτεχνικών και Υδρονομικών Έργων).  Στεργιάδου, Α., 2001. Ανάδειξη, ανάπτυξη και διάνοιξη του ορεινού χώρου (περιοχών Γρεβενών, Ιωαννίνων και Κιλκίς)(Doctoral dissertation, Αριστοτέλειο Πανεπιστήμιο Θεσσαλονίκης (ΑΠΘ). Σχολή Γεωτεχνικών Επιστημών. Τμήμα Δασολογίας και Φυσικού Περιβάλλοντος. Τομέας Δασοτεχνικών και Υδρονομικών Έργων. Εργαστήριο Μηχανικών Επιστημών και Τοπογραφίας).  Stergiadou, A. G., 2006. Environmental impact assessment (EIA) for the evaluation of forest roads in mountainous conditions (Case study: Valia Kalda). Management and Development of Mountainous and Island Areas, 125.  Stergiadou, A. G., 2007. Sustainable Development Of “Smixi” Using Environmental Impact Assessment. WIT Transactions on Ecology and the Environment, 102, UK.  Stergiadou, A., 2014. Prevention and suppression of forest-fires by using the road network and water tanks. FRESENIUS ENVIRONMENTAL BULLETIN, 23(11), p.p. 2755-2761.  Sundberg, U. (Sveriges Lantbruksuniversitet, Garpenberg (Sweden). Inst. foer Skogsteknik) 1988, The emergence and establishment of forest operations and techniques as a discipline in forest science, http://agris.fao.org/agris-search/search.do?recordID=NO8900461  Rudolf Heinrich Chief, Forest Harvesting, Trade and Marketing Branch, The FAO programme on environmentally sound forest harvesting operations, http://www.fao.org/docrep/W3646E/w3646e02.htm  WCED. 1987. Our Common Future. World Commission on Environment and Development, convened by the United Nations General Assembly, New York. Oxford University Press, Oxford, UK.
Additional bibliography for study
Forest Road Construction handbook by FAO
Last Update
17-02-2022