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| GEOP0006-3 | Soil quality evaluation and management
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| Duration : | 18h Th, 12h Pr, 6h FT |
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| Lecturer : | Gilles Colinet |
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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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| Introduction based on the European and Walloon inventories.
Identification, causes and consequences of pressures on soil :
- edaphic(ss) or ecologic (soil organic state, acidification tendency, ...) degradation;
- crusting, compaction, poaching, hydric (and aeolian) erosion;
- diffused or site specific contaminations (heavy metal, pesticides and other organic contaminants, nitrate and phosphorous, artificial radionuclides);
- economic subtraction.
Procedures of investigation (historic, ecosystemic, cartographic and analytic) and monitoring (choice of indicators, positioning, frequency, ...).
Means of prevention and intervention adapted to the context :
- options of allocation, land management, agronomic practices, particular techniques, ...;
- agricultural or forest context, peri-urban land, industrial site, ....
Reflection on control issues (notion of observatory) and information management.
Case studies. |
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Learning outcomes of the course :
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| To apply the principles of applied pedology to the inventory of pressures on and threats to soils, to assesment and monitoring of its quality, to the means of prevention and action, to the formulation of advices in Belgium and Overseas.
After completing the course the student is expected to
- have a good idea about threats on soils,
- develop strategies of identification and monitoring,
- suggest means of prevention and correction/interpretation. |
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Prerequisites and co-requisites/ Recommended optional programme components :
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| Pédologie générale |
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Planned learning activities and teaching methods :
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| - Face to face lectures and seminars,- Practical exercises on the field,
- Personnal work under coaching |
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Mode of delivery (face-to-face ; distance-learning) :
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| Lectures and workshop : 12hIncluding a presentation in english by groups of students (Hybrid course)
Field-study trip and visits : 6h Personnel work : 6h |
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Recommended or required readings :
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| Girard M.C. et al. (2005) Sols et Environnement, Dunod, 832 p.
Defining Soil Quality for a Sustainable Environment (1994), Doran and al. ed., SSSA Spec. Public., 35, 244 p.
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Assessment methods and criteria :
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| Group report (100%) |
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Organizational remarks :
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Contacts :
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| Colinet, Gilles
Science du Sol
081 62 25 39
Gilles.Colinet@ulg.ac.be |
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