RISQ2006-1 : Natural hazards linked to land degradation : soil erosion, desertification and agrometeorology

Study Programmes 2015-2016

RISQ2006-1

Natural hazards linked to land degradation : soil erosion, desertification and agrometeorology

Duration :

18h Th, 18h Pr

Number of credits :

Specialised master in natural hazards management		3

Lecturer :

Gilles Colinet, Pierre Ozer, Bernard Tychon

Coordinator :

Pierre Ozer

Language(s) of instruction :

French language

Organisation and examination :

Teaching in the first semester, review in January

Units courses prerequisite and corequisite :

Prerequisite or corequisite units are presented within each program

Course contents :

Natural hazards linked to land degradation: soil erosion, desertification and agrometeorology

Learning outcomes of the course :

For the lecture about desertification processes:

This course provides a state of the art of recent findings and controversy that surround the desertification processes and analyzes the role of climate and of Man on land degradation in arid, semiarid and dry subhumid regions of the world.

Prerequisite knowledge and skills :

None

Planned learning activities and teaching methods :

For the lecture about desertification processes:

Analysis of documents and datasets.

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

Based on four 3-hours lectures, the curses will be given with a Power Point support fully available to the students.