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The three disciplines of forest, geo and hydro sciences exist under one umbrella in the Faculty, which is unique in Germany. Research work and teaching in the Faculty focus on the sustainable development at global, regional and local scale of the human sphere of life, as well as on the monitoring of the system Earth.

The Department of Forest Sciences is concerned with aspects of rural area value added and with the forest as an instrument in risk management, concentrating on the environmentally friendly production of raw materials as well as the complete protective function of the forest, taking into account the social and economic developments.

The Department of Geo Sciences develops and uses information technologies for monitoring, modelling, analyzing and visualizing the system Earth and for creating geo data infrastructures. Furthermore, it deals with issues such as remote sensing, of spatial planning and spatial development as well as land management in the context of the interactions of environmental management and socio-economic development.

The Department of Hydro Sciences is concerned with water in natural and engineering systems and with the feedback of dynamic processes with bio and hydro spheres. Topical issues of work regard risk management as well as the development of concepts for resources protection as well as the sustainable use of water and water bodies.

Future-oriented interdisciplinary topics of the Faculty address issues from the branches documentation, modelling and risk management in the fields of environment and urban areas, which result from the actual ecological, economic and sociological tendencies such as demographic change, industrialization, environmental pollution, deforestation, climate change, lack of water, desertification and loss of biodiversity. To tackle these problems, the structure of the Faculty, staffed with scientists having engineering, scientific and sociological backgrounds, provides a valuable platform.

Faculty profile lines:

Hence, the Faculty is concerned with TU Dresden Profile Lines No. 5 (Water, Energy and Environment) and No. 4 (Population, Infrastructure and Transport), it touches, however, also the Profile Lines 3 (Information Systems Technology) as well as Profile Line No. 2 (materials engineering, biomaterials, nanotechnology).

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Brochure: Faculty of Forest, Geo and Hydro Sciences

• Part 1: (pdf-file 388 kB)
  Preface - The Faculty - Affiliated Instiutions of the Faculty 
  
• Part 2: (pdf-file 548 kB)
  Department of Forest Sciences 
  
• Part 3: (pdf-file 365 kB)
  Department of Geosciences 
• Part 4: (pdf-file 407 kB)
  Department of Hydroscience