ENVT2062-2 : Soil degradation, water and wind erosion

ENVT2062-2

Soil degradation, water and wind erosion

Duration :

24h Th

Number of credits :

Specialised master in environmental management in developing countries		2

Lecturer :

Gilles Colinet

Language(s) of instruction :

French language

Organisation and examination :

Teaching in the second semester

Units courses prerequisite and corequisite :

Prerequisite or corequisite units are presented within each program

Course contents :

- Fundamentals of Pedology
- Soil degradation: defintitions and theme analysis
- Erosion (seminars)

Learning outcomes of the course :

To know the basis of land evaluation and be able to identify the soil resources according to their potentialities, constraints for specific uses and sensibility to major threats.

Prerequisite knowledge and skills :

Planned learning activities and teaching methods :

- Face-to-face learning ;
- Seminars ;
- Field trips.

Mode of delivery (face-to-face ; distance-learning) :