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| ENVT0848-3 | Impacts of human activities on ecosystems and including land use
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| Duration : | 20h Th, 10h Pr |
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| Lecturer : | Célia Joaquim-Justo, Angélique Léonard, Roberto Renzoni, Emmanuël Sérusiaux |
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| Coordinator : | Célia Joaquim-Justo |
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Language(s) of instruction :
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| French language |
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Organisation and examination :
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| Teaching in the first semester, review in January |
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Course contents :
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| The course includes three parts.
The first part is taught by Prof. Sérusiaux and concerns mainly nature conservation. It takes the point of view of a historic analysis and a socio-cultural approach to nature conservation. The main subject is by all means that of nature conservation within the global concept of development and the impact of resources exploitation and land managements in NW Europe.
The second part taught by Dr. Joaquim-Justo concerns the impacts that anthropic pressures exert on ecosystems. This part includes a historic perspective of human impacts on the biosphere, the interferences with the main biogeochemical cycles, impacts due to toxic pollutants, physical pollutions and their impacts on ecosystems. Management strategies are consisdered for each compartment (air, soil, water).
The third par taught by Dr. Renzoni focuses on the specific impacts of industrial activities.
The main objective of this third part is to provide students with a methodology and Tools to help them through their professional life to identify and to assess the information concerning environmental impacts of anthropic activities.
One of the objectives of the course is to familiarize students with the main concepts of environmental impacts and to determine the behaviour of pollutants; another aim is to know the modes of formation of pollutants generated by human activities, detection methods and of reduction of these pollutants.
Students will be able to understand a depollution project by the knowledge of teh main depollution techniques for effluents from different types of human activities. |
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Mode of delivery (face-to-face ; distance-learning) :
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| Teaching will consist of lectures. |
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| Information and documents will be handed during the first course session. |
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Assessment methods and criteria :
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| The evaluation will consist of a written test. |
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Contacts :
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| see section in French |
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