Estudia

• Landscape analysis
• Principles and methods in physical landscape studies.
• Principles and methods in cultural landscape analysis
• Understanding the complexity of landscapes.
• Carry out research in a multinational group situation.

1. Monday 2 May 2011: Introduction to Finland and Karelina landscape characteristics.

2. Tuesday 3 May 2001: Fieldwork excursions I

3. Wednesday 4 May 2011: Fieldwork excursion II

4. Thursday 5 May 2011: Fieldwork excursion III.

5. Friday 6 May 2011: Landscape studies_Theoric and methodological approach and constitution of multinational research groups.

6. Monday 9 May 2011: Research Group working 10:00h – 13:00h Tutorial Class (optional).

7. Tuesday 10 May 2011: Research Group working 10:00h – 13:00h Tutorial Class (optional).

8. Wednesday 11 May 2011: Research Group working 10:00h – 13:00h Tutorial Class (optional).

9. Thursday 12 May 2011: Research Group working 10:00h – 13:00h Tutorial Class (optional).

10. Friday 13 May 2011: Final Reports_Presentation and discusion. The students need to deliver the final course report two weeks after the end of the intensive course.

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          11.1. Information about IP Facesland 2010 in Girona University:

                    11.1.1. Monday 12th April. 9:00h. Welcome and opening the course. 9:30h. Physical geography of Catalonia. Josep Vila. Geography Department (UdG). 10:30h. Break. 11:00h. Human geography of Catalonia. Rafel Llussà. Geography Department (UdG). 12:00h. Physical management of Catalonia. Joan Vicente. Geography Department (UdG). 13:00h Dinner. 15:00h. The Catalonia Landscape Observatory and the landscape catalogs. Joan Nogué. Chair of the Catalonia Landscape Observatory. 16:00h. Visit to Girona city.

                    11.1.2. Tuesday 13th April: Field Work Excursion: Coast landscape dynamics. 9:00 Departure Excursion: Bus Station of Girona. Girona – L'Escala - Rosas - Mas Ventós (Serra de Roda) – Cadaqués - Cap de Creus - Girona. 19:00 Arrival Excursion

                    11.1.3. Wednesday 14th April: Field Work Excursion: Valleys landscape dynamics. 9:00 Departure Excursion: Bus Station of Girona. 19:00 Arrival Excursion

                    11.1.4. Thursday 15th April: Field Work Excursion: Moutain landscape dynamics. 9:00 Departure Excursion: Bus Station of Girona. 19:00 Arrival Excursion

                    11.1.5. Friday 16th April: Landscape studies_Theoric and methodological approach.

                    11.1.6. Friday 16th April:

                    11.1.7. Monday 19th April: Research Group working 10:00h – 13:00h Tutorial Class (optional)

                    11.1.8. Wednesday 21th April: Research Group working 10:00h – 13:00h Tutorial Class (optional)

                    11.1.9. Thursday 22th April: Research Group working 10:00h – 13:00h Tutorial Class (optional)

                    11.1.10. Friday 23th April: Final Reports_Presentation and discusion

          11.2. The students need to deliver the final course report two weeks after the end of the intensive course.

• Antrop, M. (2004). Landscape change and the urbanization process in Europe. Landscape and Urban Planning, (70), 9-26
• Antrop, M. (2005). Why landscapes of the past are important for the future. Landscape and Urban Planning, (70), 21-34
• Antrop, M. (2006). Sustainable landscapes: contradiction, fiction or utopia?. Landscape and Urban Planning, (75), 187-197
• Henderson, G. (2003). What (else) we talk about when we talk about landscapes: for a return to the soc. Dins Wilson C. & Groth, P. (Ed.), Everyday America: cultural landscape studies after J.B. Jackson (, p. 178-198). Berkeley. California: University of California Press.
• Mitchell, D. (2002). Culturla landscapes: a dialectal landscape - recent landscape research in human . Progress in Human Geography, 26(3), 381-389
• Mitchell, D. (2003). Cultural landscapes: just landscapes or landscape of justice?. Progress in Human Geography, 27(6), 787-796
• Olwing, K. R. (2002). Landscape, nature and the body politic: from Britain's renaissance to America's . University of Wisconsin Press.
• Olwing, K.R. (2005). Representation and alienation in the political land-scape. Cultural geographies, (12), 19-40
• Observatori de Paisatge de Catalunya. Recuperat , a www.catpaisatge.net

Activitats d'avaluació:

Case study presentation and discusion: 35%
Case study final report: 65% of the final note.

Intensive Programm IP (Facesland). 2011 two weeks in North Karelia (Finland) - Eastern Finland University from May 2 until May. Both weeks include lectures, excursions, field works, discussions and seminars with presentation of his conclusions about the field work. The students will finish course reports after the intensive weeks.

The students will work in five multinational research groups with 6 students in each (2 students from Eastern Finland Universtiy + 2 students Girona University + 2 students from Presov Univerity).