UCPH Department of Geosciences and Natural Resource Management
department under the Faculty of Science at University of Copenhagen
The UCPH Department of Geosciences and Natural Resource Management (Danish: Institut for Geovidenskab og Naturforvaltning, IGN) is a department under the Faculty of Science at University of Copenhagen (UCPH).
History
In 2007, the Royal Veterinary and Agricultural University, 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 University of Copenhagen. 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 DANIDA Centre for forest seeds. The brand Forest & Landscape still exists as cross-departmental cooperation.
Organisation
The department is organized into five subsections: Geography; Geology; Forest, Nature and Biomass; Landscape Architecture and Planning; and the Forest and Landscape College.
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