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| ENVT0881-1 | Environmental degradation and desertification
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| Duration : | 20h Th |
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| Lecturer : | Pierre Ozer |
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Language(s) of instruction :
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| French language |
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Course contents :
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| Desertification processes: background, context and definitions.
Past and future analysis of the main driving factors of desertification, including climatic variability and anthropogenic pressure, with a focus on the Sahel of West Africa.
Consequences of desertification: poverty, development and health.
How to adapt to climatic variations in arid, semi arid and dry sub humid areas and to their influence on desertification processes?
Costs and perspectives of the fight against desertification... |
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Learning outcomes of the course :
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| The lecture will present the desertification processes analysing in detail causes, consequences and ways to prevent land degradation. It will focus on the difficulties to make project to fight against desertification in developing countries, including the uncertainty about forthcoming short and long term rainfall. |
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Prerequisites and co-requisites/ Recommended optional programme components :
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| None |
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Planned learning activities and teaching methods :
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| None |
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Mode of delivery (face-to-face ; distance-learning) :
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| Based on seven 3-hours lectures, the curses will be given with a Power Point support fully available to the students. |
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Recommended or required readings :
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| 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 methods and criteria :
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| The evaluation will be made on the basis of the analysis of one National Action Plan to fight against desertification.
The report is to be a maximum of six pages, diagrams, tables and references included. Any work over these six pages will not be marked. |
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Work placement(s) :
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Organizational remarks :
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Contacts :
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| 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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