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Academic Units
DEPARTMENT OF Landscape Design and Ecosystem
Management (LDEM)
Chairperson: Zurayk, R.
Professors: Talhouk, S.; Zurayk, R.
Associate Professor: Makhzoumi, J.
Assistant Professor: Farajalla, N.; Weltzien, Julie
Lecturers: PBattikha, G.
Instructors: PJarroush
Abdouni, N.; PShibli, R.; PIsa, M.
Departmental R.A.: Modad, N.
Graduate Programs
Graduate study program leading to the MS degree with thesis or
non-thesis options is offered with a specialization of Ecosystem
Management.
The program educates students in ecosystem science and management
by integrating instruction in biophysical and human systems. It
provides students with sufficient research experience, and it equips
graduates with the necessary tools for professional practice and/or
the pursuit of higher education.
It crosses traditional boundaries by applying a transdisciplinary
approach and multiple resource knowledge to ecosystem studies. It
emphasizes human: nature interactions.
Natural resources management involves not only the understanding
of ecosystem structure and function when used for a variety of
purposes, but also the incorporation of social, economic and
political considerations into decision-making. Consequently the
discipline involves the collection, analysis, interpretation and
integration of information from not only the more traditional areas
of science but also from the areas of management.
Ecosystem Management Courses
ECMG 330/ENSC 630/LDEM 630 Natural Resource Management 3.0, 3 cr.
Introduction to the field of natural resource management; renewability
and exhaustion of resources; technology of resource management;
geographic specificity of resource management; resource management
and development; the human dimension in natural resource management.
ECMG 314/ENSC 631/LDEM 631 Agricultural Pollution and Control 3.0, 3 cr.
Fate of agrochemicals in the environment; animal wastes and by-products
as pollutants; effect of each of these groups of pollutants on terrestrial,
aquatic, and atmospheric systems; monitoring of residues, methodologies
and risk assessment models.
ECMG 333/ENSC 633/LDEM 633 Ecological Landscape Design and
Planning 3 cr.
Introduction to the theory and methodology of ecological
landscape design and planning, aims to introduce the holistic
approach of landscape ecology and its application in sustainable
management of natural and cultural landscape sterosystems.
ECMG 354/ENSC 654 Physical and Biological Resources in
Terrestrial Ecosystems 3 cr.
Physical and Biological Resources in Ecosystems, soils in the
ecosystem, soil conservation, water in the ecosystem, water
conservation, principles of soil and water chemistry and
microbiology, plant and animal biodiversity, collection and
conservation of wild plants, preservation of endangered species,
plant response to environmental stress
1P Part-time
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