Duration
24h Th, 21h Pr
Number of credits
| Master in environmental bioengineering, professional focus | 5 crédits |
Lecturer
Gilles Colinet, Aurore Degré, Jeroen Meersmans, Anne-Claude Romain
Coordinator
Language(s) of instruction
English language
Organisation and examination
Teaching in the second semester
Schedule
Units courses prerequisite and corequisite
Prerequisite or corequisite units are presented within each program
Learning unit contents
General introduction: Water-Air-Soil legislative frameworks
Protection of soil resources:
- Threats to soils: the European framework and the main threats
- Soil erosion: issues, management solutions.
- Loss of OM
- Artificialization
- Acidification
- Water resources in Wallonia: methods of collection and water quality
- The nitrate directive, the PGDA and the pesticide reduction plan
- Diagnostic tools for the protection of catchments
- Context-problem of air pollution
- Sources of pollution
- Introduction to atmospheric chemistry
- pollutants and pollution
-regulation
- Focus on ozone and ammonia in relation to the agricultural sector
Integrated exercise on a real case.
Learning outcomes of the learning unit
At the end of the course, students are able to:
- Mobilize legislative tools for the protection of natural resources;
- Design protocols for measuring relevant indicators for monitoring threats to resources;
- Establish a diagnosis and propose appropriate solutions for a case study
Prerequisite knowledge and skills
Planned learning activities and teaching methods
Theory
Case studies
Field visit - We will have a one day excursion during which we will go by bus to a landscape within Belgium allowing us to study in detail the environmental threats considered within the context of this module and interact with local stakeholders. Participation to this activity will be key in the context of the assessment
Mode of delivery (face to face, distance learning, hybrid learning)
Course materials and recommended or required readings
Exam(s) in session
Any session
- In-person
oral exam
Written work / report
Work placement(s)
Organisational remarks and main changes to the course
Contacts
Shared lecture
Gilles Colinet (gilles.colinet@uliege.be)
Aurore Degré (aurore.degre@uliege.be)
Jeroen Meersmans (jeroen.meersmans@uliege.be)
Anne-Claude Romain (acromain@uliege.be)