Máster Universitario en Restauración de Ecosistemas
Madrid, Spain
Master degree
DURATION
1 year
LANGUAGES
Spanish
PACE
Full time
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STUDY FORMAT
On-Campus
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Key Summary
About : The Máster Universitario en Restauración de Ecosistemas focuses on techniques and knowledge essential for restoring ecosystems. The curriculum includes courses on ecological principles, restoration methodologies, and practical applications in various environments. Students engage in hands-on projects and research opportunities aimed at real-world ecological challenges.
Career Outcomes : Graduates can explore diverse career paths, including roles as ecologists, restoration specialists, environmental consultants, or project managers within government, NGOs, and private sectors. These positions can involve managing restoration projects, conducting environmental assessments, or collaborating with teams focused on sustainable ecosystem management.
The completion of a classic program typically entails earning 90 ECTS credits.
Master's Degree Duration: One academic year.
- 634201 Environmental degradation and restoration of Ecosystems
- 634202 Ecological processes in ecosystem restoration
- 634203 geomorphological restoration
- 634204 Ecological restoration projects
- 634205 Soil erosion and restoration processes
- 634206 Spatial information management for ecosystem restoration
- 634207 landscape restoration
- 634208 Vegetation Restoration
- 634209 Restoration of contaminated soils
- 634210 Improvement of habitats for fauna
- 634211 Genetic restoration of populations
- 634212 Forestry and Forest Restoration
- 634213 Restoration in mining
- 634214 Restoration of agroecosystems
- 634215 Restoration of coastal and marine environments
- 634216 Restoration of rivers, banks, and wetlands
- 634217 Restoration in extreme environments
- 634218 Conservation Biology
- 634219 Restoration of spaces affected by civil works
- 634220 Final Master's Project
- 634221 External Practices I
- 634222 External Practices II
Basic Skills
- CB6 - Possess and understand knowledge that provides a basis or opportunity to be original in the development and/or application of ideas, often in a research context
- CB7 - That students know how to apply the knowledge acquired and their ability to solve problems in new or little-known environments within broader (or multidisciplinary) contexts related to their area of study
- CB8 - That students are able to integrate knowledge and face the complexity of making judgments based on information that, being incomplete or limited, includes reflections on the social and ethical responsibilities linked to the application of their knowledge and judgments
- CB9 - That students know how to communicate their conclusions¿and the ultimate knowledge and reasons that support them in specialized and non-specialized audiences in a clear and unambiguous way
- CB10 - That students have the learning skills that allow them to continue studying in a way that will have to be largely self-directed or autonomous.
General Competences
- Know the theoretical and practical foundations of ecological restoration for its application to environmental restoration studies and projects
- Know how to diagnose environmental problems and identify relevant ecological processes for restoration
- Manage ecological restoration methodologies and techniques
- Have a broad vision of the professional, scientific, and technical world in the discipline
- Learn to work in groups and with a multidisciplinary approach
- Analyze case studies in a group dynamic
- Understand scientific and technical articles
- Stimulate discussion between students and teachers based on their own results and recommended readings
- Learn to document specific topics and become familiar with the main bibliography of the subject
- Strengthen the capacity for critical synthesis and the written and oral expression of works on ecological restoration
- Master the principles, methods, and procedures to create and edit documents
- Design and carry out research in restoration ecology
- Promote contact between students and researchers involved in the matter
- Learn to integrate into a new work environment
- Assuming professional responsibilities
Specific Competences
- Know the principles and techniques to develop professional work in Conservation
- Understand how the different factors of global change affect biodiversity
- Interpret basic demographic and genetic information
- Connect conservation ecology with ecosystem restoration
- Know the ecological and technical foundations of revegetation and know how to apply the techniques of this discipline
- Diagnose the factors that limit revegetation and establish revegetation objectives based on ecological and socioeconomic
- Ability to write a well-structured and well-founded revegetation project and know the criteria for its evaluation
- Know the causes and consequences of the human ecological footprint
- Understand how ecological restoration affects biodiversity and ecosystem services
- Learn about case studies of ecological restoration in the real world
- Being able to acquire, understand, analyze, and apply information on geology, geomorphology, and soil science in studies applied to ecological restoration
- Know the physical factors that condition ecological restoration processes
- Know the main working methods and techniques in physical geology, geomorphology, and soil sciences
- Establish a theoretical and practical framework for the design of the relief in ecosystem restoration, as well as to evaluate and control the hydrological impact
- Know the main ecological processes involved in the restoration of ecosystems
- Learn to diagnose the factors that limit the restoration of ecosystems
- Compare current knowledge about the structure and key processes of ecosystems with current practices of revegetation/restoration of areas affected by civil works
- Propose mitigation and restoration measures in a team discussion dynamic
- Establish the connections and feedback between the natural and human environment and establish the concept of sustainable management
- Quantify the ecological aspects of landscapes, acquiring skills in the most current techniques of analysis of their composition and configuration
- Manage modeling techniques of the past and future evolution of landscapes in the field of environmental restoration planning, with emphasis on forest restoration
- Know how to use criteria for decision-making regarding the prioritization of ecosystem restoration objectives at the landscape scale
- Know the theoretical and practical foundations of ecological restoration for its application to environmental restoration studies and projects
- Manage ecological restoration methodologies and techniques
- Design and carry out research in restoration ecology
- Enabling students to join R+D+i Projects whose development is one of the priority objectives of the European and Spanish Scientific Policy