2023-2024 / ENVT2065-1

Environment management experience in a developing country: one-week study trip to the Kingdom of Morocco

Duration

48h FW

Number of credits

 Advanced Master in Environmental Sciences and Management in Developing Countries (Registrations are closed)2 crédits 

Lecturer

Language(s) of instruction

French language

Organisation and examination

Teaching in the second semester

Schedule

Schedule online

Units courses prerequisite and corequisite

Prerequisite or corequisite units are presented within each program

Learning unit contents

A one-week residential seminar in a developing country for practising theoretical notions given during the lectures of the scholar year

Learning outcomes of the learning unit

- Practise the different notions teached during the scholar year

- Analyse and interpret environmental management in the visited developing country (Morroco)

Topics tackled:

- Desertification

- Deforestation

- Water use in agriculture (irrigated and rainfed)

- Basin integrated water management

- Urban envrionment management (extension of city, wastewater management, dump,...)

- Climate change

- Biodiversity protection

Topics tackled will concern as much as possible processes analyses as well as means to reduce or to fight the environment degradation

Prerequisite knowledge and skills

Students should have attend the basic courses and specialization courses between September and April

Planned learning activities and teaching methods

The whole week on the field in the selected developing country will be devoted to practical exercises.

Mode of delivery (face to face, distance learning, hybrid learning)

A whole week on the field in April

Recommended or required readings

Students will receive before departure to the residential seminar in the developing country a set of documents presenting the visited region and the envrionmental problems met.

A report of the visit will be requested. It will be evaluated according to criteria given during the residential seminar

Work placement(s)

Organisational remarks and main changes to the course

Contacts

Bernard TYCHON
Bernard.Tychon@ulg.ac.be


Gilles COLINET
Gilles.Colinet@uliege.be

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