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| GERE0023-1 | Spatial analysis, soil organisation in the landscape and soil conservation
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| Duration : | 33h Th, 33h Pr, 6h FT |
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| Lecturer : | Gilles Colinet, Jean-Thomas Cornelis, Aurore Degré |
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| Coordinator : | N... |
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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 second semester |
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Course contents :
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| The course deals with the management of agricultural watersheds with an objective of soil and water conservation. It gives theoritical basis as well as practical application on real case study. In this application they will have to quantify the hydrology and soil losses and to propose and assess mitigation measures.
The course includes
Erosion processes
Hydric erosion processes
Field measurements of erosion
Erosion modelling
Soil and water conservation technics
Basics of spatial modelling using GIS applied to soil conservation.
A field application is proposed. The students work in group of 4-5.
Furthermore, the course will deal with the soil physico-chemical analyses, the principles of distribution and analysis of soil in the landscape and soil cartography. This part will be organized as follow:
- Ecosystemic soil functions in the landscape
- Soil physico-chemical analyses
- Soil distribution in the landscape
- Soil classification
- Geographical information system about soils
- Pedoclimate concept
These concepts will be teach during lectures and field trips |
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Learning outcomes of the course :
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| After completing the course, the student will reach an advanded level of competency to
- Conceive a management project on a given topic
an intermediaite level of comptency to
- identify, test and put into practice sustainable management measures
a basic level of competency to conceive an integrated management project.
Particularly, at the end of the course, the student will be able to
- recognize the different erosion processes
- quantify erosion risks
- mesure and model soil loss
- propose an ensemble of conservation measures in order to limit soil losses and/or damages at the catchment's outlet.
The student will be also able to:
- illustrate in the field regional pedogenic features and soil-plant / soil-society relationship
-comment soil in landscape
- do a geomophorphological and pedological characterization of a landscape and comment agroenvironmental and lanscape features
- make the basis of regional geographical information system about soils |
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Prerequisites and co-requisites/ Recommended optional programme components :
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| General Hydrology
Edaphology
Evaluation of soil quality
Soil science
Pedogenesis, Soil classification and soil hydrodynamic |
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Planned learning activities and teaching methods :
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| lectures
manipulations on computers
field visits
oral presentations
role play |
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Mode of delivery (face-to-face ; distance-learning) :
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| face to face and group work |
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Recommended or required readings :
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| Slides shows, documents and reference papers are available on eCampus |
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Assessment methods and criteria :
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| evaluation on the basis of the student's attendance to lectures, practical work and field trips and on the basis of a group report as well as a individual interview. |
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Work placement(s) :
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Organizational remarks :
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| It is compulsory to attend field visits and workshops. |
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Contacts :
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| Aurore Degré aurore.degre@ulg.ac.be
Jean-Thomas Cornelis jtcornelis@ulg.ac.be
Gilles Colinet gilles.colinet@ulg.ac.be
Soil - Water Systems
BIOSE
Gembloux Agro-Bio Tech |
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