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| GEOG0222-3 | Rural Geography
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| Duration : | 30h Th, 16h Pr, 3d FW |
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| Credits/ECTS : |
| Master in Geographical Sciences, general orientation, in-depth approach, 1st year | | Toute l'année | | 5 |
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| Master in Geographical Sciences, general orientation, didactic approach, 1st year | | Toute l'année | | 5 |
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| Master en sciences géographiques, orientation générale, à finalité spécialisée en développement territorial et géomatique, 1st year | | Toute l'année | | 5 |
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| Master in Geographical Sciences, general orientation, specialized approach, 1st year | | Toute l'année | | 5 |
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| Master en sciences géographiques, orientation générale, à finalité spécialisée en géomorphologie, 1st year | | Toute l'année | | 5 |
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| Master in Geographical Sciences, general orientation | | Toute l'année | | 5 |
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| Holder(s) : | Serge Schmitz |
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| Language : | French language |
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| Course contents : | 1) Rural landscape analysis. From the landscape features to the rural system
a) rural housing and settlement
b) land morphology (parcel and land consolidation)
c) cultivation system
d) diversity of rural landscape features in Europe and in the World
2) Belgian countryside
a) Retroacts
b) Town and countryside interconnections
3) The forest
a) Production and transformation of wood
b) Multifunctional forest
4) Belgian Farming
a) Regional diversity and mains challenges
b) CAP
5) Exotic farming
a) Eastern European peasantry
b) French viticulture
c) Agriculture in Africa or in Central America
6) Nature conservation
a) National and regional parks, protected areas, ecological network
7) Rural development
a) Local development
b) Rural tourism
c) Sustainable development
d) European rural development policy
e) Typology for the european countryside |
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| Course objective : | 1) Familiarizing the student with the countryside and its recent evolutions
2) Connecting the biophysical features, the land property and the land use in rural analysis
3) Articulating the local and regional constrains with the international constrains
4) Using different kinds of sources and methods (cartography, statistical data, interviews, remote sensing,etc)
5) Making a Poster presentation
6) Realising a local diagnostic, including the proposition of ways of development for a rural areas. |
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| Prerequisites : | Notion of statistics, biology, pedology and economy
Elementary geographical vocabulary
Map interpretation
Good physical condition (field works) |
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| Workshops : | ... |
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| Organization : | This lecture will be given on Tuesday from 9 a.m. to 12 p.m. during the first quarter. |
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| Written notes : | Schmitz S., 2008. Géographie rurale, Liège : Université de Liège, Facultés des sciences, 80 p.
Van Hecke E., Antrop M., Schmitz S., 2010. Agriculture et Monde rural, Atlas de Belgique, tome 2, Gent : Academia Press, 82p.
Ouvrages de références :
- Ch. Christians. - Les campagnes - in J. Denis - Géographie de la Belgique, Crédit communal de Belgique, 1992, p. 483-536.
- F. Lebeau - Les grands types de structures agraires dans le monde. Masson, 5e éd., 1991.
- J.-H. Schirmer, S. Schmitz, G. Schirmer-Nejfeld - Agricultures du monde. Bulletin de la Société géographique de Liège, vol. 33, 1997.
- S. Schmitz, -Walloon Region: An agro-forestry landscape without farmers?", Dela, 2002, 17: 174-182.
- E. Van Hecke - L'agriculture - in J. Denis - Géographie de la Belgique, Crédit communal de Belgique, 1992, p. 331-355 |
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| Assessment : | Exercises and Field works (2/5);
Oral exams (3/5). |
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| Contacts : | Serge Schmitz
Université de Liège - Institut de Géographie - Sart Tilman - Bât. B11 - Bureau 1/21
Phone. : 04/366.56.29 - Fax : 04/366 57 70 - E-mail : S.Schmitz@ulg.ac.be
Secrétariat : Chantal SARTO : Phone. : 04/366 56.23 |
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