ISLA IPGT 23133

Natural Heritage and Tourism

• ApresentaçãoPresentation

  This curricular unit explores natural heritage as a key resource for sustainable tourism, combining theory and practice in fields such as conservation, ecology, geography, management, and destination marketing. It highlights the relationship between culture and nature, tangible and intangible heritage, and the balance between conservation and sustainable development. The program is structured across six levels of analysis — international, European Union, national, and local — enabling students to understand legal, institutional, and management frameworks. Through case studies and practical projects, students acquire skills to identify, characterize, and analyze natural areas (parks, protected landscapes, geoparks, reserves, or coastal zones), while recognizing the role of different stakeholders and critically reflecting on the challenges and limitations of protecting and enhancing natural heritage.
• ProgramaProgramme

    Cultural and natural heritage: concepts, definitions and distinctions; geoheritage, biodiversity and geodiversity; protected areas and conservation. Characteristics and typologies of natural heritage: parks, reserves, geoparks, natural monuments. Natural heritage at the international level: Conventions, UNESCO and the Global Network of Protected Areas. Natural heritage in the European Union: policies, instruments and conservation strategies (e.g. Natura 2000). Natural heritage in Portugal: legal framework, national protected areas and management challenges. Natural heritage at the local level: inventory, enhancement and management of nearby natural resources. Practical work: analysis of a foreign national park or UNESCO site; study of natural heritage in danger; characterization and observation of local natural heritage.
• ObjectivosObjectives

  OBJECTIVES - Provide students with a good mastery of the problems associated with natural heritage, in particular, with classified areas, making them aware of the importance of public policies aimed at their sustainability. - Provide students with technical skills to enable their participation in this territories' management, enhancing their ability to better understand the topic and to educate visitors. - To equip students with ethical behaviour towards the environment and the biotic and abiotic communities that inhabit it.   SKILLS: - Systemic vision on natural heritage management. - Mastery of the conceptual framework through the reading and analysis of the recommended bibliographic resources. - Domain of practical skills associated with academic works are to be developed by the students as they are fundamental tools to operate and intervene in professional and market environments in which they are/will be involved.
• BibliografiaBibliography

  Eagles, P., McCool, S., Haynes, C. (2002). Sustainable Tourism in Protected Areas: Guidelines for Planning and Management. IUCN Ferreira, A. (2014). A conservação da natureza como política pública e instrumento de protecção e sustentabilidade da paisagem. Caso de estudo: Baixo Alentejo e Algarve (Doctoral dissertation, ISA/UL). Lück, M., & Kirstges, T. (Eds.). (2003). Global ecotourism policies and case studies: Perspectives and constraints. Channel View Publications. Pereira, P. (2007). Património geomorfológico: conceptualização, avaliação e divulgação: aplicação ao Parque Natural de Montesinho (Doctoral dissertation- UMinho). Silva, F. & Carvalhinho, L. (2017). Turismo na Natureza e de Aventura. In Silva, F. & Umbelino, J. (2017). Planeamento e Desenvolvimento Turístico. Lidel  
• MetodologiaMethodology

  Active Learning can be used in this curricular unit, promoting practical activities that involve students directly in the learning process, such as trips to heritage sites, case studies, simulations and practical projects. Problem-Based Learning (PBL) will also be applied by developing a problem-situation related to natural heritage and tourism. We will also apply Collaborative Learning which promotes collaboration between students, encouraging them to work in groups to make presentations on topics related to natural heritage.
• LínguaLanguage

  Português
• TipoType

  Semestral
• ECTS

  5
• NaturezaNature

  Mandatory
• EstágioInternship

  Não
• AvaliaçãoEvaluation

  AVALIAÇÃO CONTÍNUA:

  Descrição	Data limite	Ponderação
  Trabalho individual I (Apresentação)		20%
  Trabalho individual II (Apresentação)		20%
  Trabalho individual III (Escrito)		30%
  Padlet		20%
  Poster		10%

  NB: Nota mínima de 8 valores obrigatória em cada uma das componentes da avaliação.

   

  AVALIAÇÃO FINAL (1ª E 2º ÉPOCAS)

  Descrição	Data limite	Ponderação
  Exame escrito individual		60%
  Trabalho Semestral (Obrigatório)		40%
  	Relatório Final	(30%)
  	Apresentação obrigatória	(10%)

  NB: Nota mínima de 8 valores obrigatória em cada uma das componentes da avaliação.