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| RISQ2006-1 | Natural hazards linked to land degradation : soil erosion, desertification and agrometeorology
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| Duration : | 18h Th, 18h Pr |
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| Holder(s) : | Pierre Ozer, Bernard Tychon, Dimitri Xanthoulis |
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| Language : | French language |
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| Course contents : | Natural hazards linked to land degradation: soil erosion, desertification and agrometeorology |
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| Course objective : | For the lecture about desertification processes:
This course provides a state of the art of recent findings and controversy that surround the desertification processes and analyzes the role of climate and of Man on land degradation in arid, semiarid and dry subhumid regions of the world. |
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| Prerequisites : | None |
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| Workshops : | For the lecture about desertification processes:
Analysis of documents and datasets. |
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| Organization : | Based on four 3-hours lectures, the curses will be given with a Power Point support fully available to the students. |
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| Written notes : | Several refences will be given to the students. Those will be in both French and English. Issued from peer-reviewed journals, all articles will be made available in pdf from this website. |
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| Assessment : | For the lecture about desertification processes:
The evaluation will be made on the basis of the analysis of one National Action Plan to fight against desertification. |
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| Contacts : | Pierre OZER
Département des Sciences et Gestion de l'Environnement
Université de Liège
Avenue de Longwy, 185 - B-6700 ARLON
Tél : 063230975
E-Mail : pozer@ulg.ac.be |
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