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ENVT0795-1

Gestion intégrée en bassins versants

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Duration :12h Th, 12h Pr
Credits/ECTS :
2nd year of Master's degree in sciences and management environment,2
Holder(s) :Françis Rosillon
Course contents : To examine the features that need to be taken into account in working towards a participatory and integrated management of drainage basins within the context of sustainable development.

Analysis and critique of management models and case studies at both local and European level.
Course objective : General objectives

  • To raise awareness of complex and concerted water management.
  • To provide methodoligical procedures for looking at management models, taking into account the concept of sustainable development.
  • To offer help in analysing existing programmes of Integrated Management of Drainage Basins or new programmes to be set up.
Specific Objectives

  • To present drainage basins as areas where water environmental policies can be usefully integrated.
  • To try out an interdisciplinary approach combining natural sciences, applied sciences and human sciences.
  • To prepare participants to plan and put into place co-ordinated water management projects in the context of (sub) basins.
  • To get involved in case studies through fieldwork and accumulating evidence of integrated drainage basin management.
Prerequisites : This course is aimed at students with different educational backgrounds, including human sciences as well as natural sciences. A developed integrated approach, implying a decompartmentalisation of knowledge, is all the more enriching when the group is made up of students from a variety of backgrounds.



Basic knowledge of environmental notions is an advantage and will allow the students to better understood aspects analysed throughout the course.
Workshops : Looking at case studies of Integrated Drainage Basin Management:

  • Fieldwork geared towards integrated management action programmes.
  • Meeting with people from public and private sectors engaged in this type of approach.
  • Integrated exercises in multidisciplinary groups in connection with case studies.
  • Fieldwork seminars will be organised either at the scale of a sub-basin (the Semois sub-basin) or at the scale of a river basin (in some years, with the participation of the Socrates Programme, River 21 in the Escaut basin).
Organization : - Theory (12H) :


1. Water and its basin (water, planetary stakes - water needs - water and territory).


2. Management elements (sustainable development, local management, participatory management).


3. European water policy (Community directives, DCE, a typology of management models in the member states).


4. Water management in Francee (Laws concerning water, SDAGE, SAGE).


5. Integrated and participatory management of Wallonia water (the example of water contracts).


6. Application of management models in developing countries (Burkina Faso).


- Practical Work pratique (12H) :


- Case studies of integrated management plans put into place.


- Drainage basin fieldwork and meetings with the players involved.


- Exercises in applying methodological models of integrated and participatory water management.
Written notes : A syllabus highlighting theoretical aspects, a list of useful references and photocopies of Powerpoint tools used in class will be given to the students.
Assessment : - Theory:

Oral Evaluation (without course material in the exam)

- Practical work :

A critical report connected to case studies and fieldwork
Contacts : Dr. Francis ROSILLON

Premier Assistant

f.rosillon@ulg.ac.be

tél : 063 23 08 52
Remarks : Each chapter and course element will be approached in a cross-disciplinary way, in integrating at every level environmental, economic, social, juridical and cultural aspects.




ULg : Students and Studies Administration - Academic Affairs
Contact : Monique Marcourt, direction A.E.E.
Date of data : 27/02/2006
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