The UCPH Department of Geosciences and Natural Resource Management (Institut for Geovidenskab og Naturforvaltning - IGN) is a department under the

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(UCPH).

History

In 2007, the

Royal Veterinary and Agricultural University The Royal Veterinary and Agricultural University ( da, Kongelige Veterinær- og Landbohøjskole, abbr. KVL) was a veterinary and agricultural science university in Denmark. It was founded in 1856 and operated until 2007, when it became a part of ...

, KVL, merged into the University of Copenhagen, becoming the Faculty of Life Sciences. Departments were not changed until 2012, when the Faculty of Life Sciences was split up and merged with the Faculty of Science and the Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences. The merger of faculties also brought along a restructuring and merger of several departments. IGN was newly established out of the main part of the Department for Forest, Landscape and Planning and the Department for Geography and Geology. Both departments have been results of mergers a few years earlier. The Department of Geography and Geology was established in 2007 by merging the two, former separate departments at the

. The Department for Forest, Landscape and Planning was established in 2004 by a merger of the former public research institute Forest & Landscape, the Department of Economy, Forest and Landscape at KVL, the Forest and Landscape College and the

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Centre for forest seeds. The brand Forest & Landscape still exists as cross-departmental cooperation.

Organisation

The department is organized in the following sections: * Section for Geography * Section for Geology * Section for Forest, Nature and Biomass * Section for Landscape Architecture and Planning * Forest and Landscape College

Location

The department's secretariat as well as the Sections for Landscape Architecture and Planning, Section for Forest, Nature and Biomass are based at Rolighedsvej 23 in the university's Frederiksberg Campus. The site comprises the former building of Københavns Sygehjem as well as a modern extension by

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from 2013. The Section for Geography and the Section for Geology are based at

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10. The Forest and Landscape College is based in

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to the north of Copenhagen. It has additional facilities at Eldrupgård in

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Programmes

Bachelor´s programmes

* Geology–Geoscience (Danish) * Geography & Geoinformatics (Danish) * Landscape Architecture (Danish) * Natural Resources(Danish)

Master´s programmes

* Geology-Geoscience * Geography and Geoinformatics * Landscape Architecture * Forest and Nature Management * Agricultural Development * Environmental and Natural Resource Economics * Nature Management ** Climate Change * Sustainable Forest and Nature Management ** Sustainable Tropical Forestry

Professional bachelor´s programmes

* Urban Landscape Engineer * Forestry and Landscape Engineer

Vocational programme

* Skilled Forest and Landscape Craftsmen

Arboreta

The department maintains three

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, two in

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and one in

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. Hørsholm Arboretum comprises approximately 2,000 species, making it the biggest collection of different trees and bushes in Denmark. The Urban Tree Arboretum is a collection of trees that are traditionally used or hold qualities that make them particularly well suited for use in urban environments. Pruning of different species of trees is systematically executed and their reactions thereto are registered. The Freenlandic Arboretum in

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has an area of 150 hectares and comprises approximately 110 species from about 600 provenances, making it one of the most extensive tree-line arboreta in the world.

References

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