2020/2021
Environmental Management and Regional Organisation
Code: 101067
ECTS Credits: 6
Degree |
Type |
Year |
Semester |
2500254 Geology |
OT |
3 |
0 |
2500254 Geology |
OT |
4 |
0 |
The proposed teaching and assessment methodology that appear in the guide may be subject to changes as a result of the restrictions to face-to-face class attendance imposed by the health authorities.
Use of Languages
- Principal working language:
- spanish (spa)
- Some groups entirely in English:
- No
- Some groups entirely in Catalan:
- No
- Some groups entirely in Spanish:
- No
Prerequisites
No specials prerequisits
Objectives and Contextualisation
Relate environmental activities and processes
Competences
Geology
- Display understanding of the size of the space and time dimensions of Earth processes, on different scales.
- Draw up and interpret geological maps and other means of depicting geological information (columns, correlation frames, geological cross-sections, etc.)
- Evaluate moral and ethical problems in research and acknowledge the need to follow professional codes of conduct.
- Identify and tackle environmental problems, plan land-use and know the principles of prevention and mitigation of geological risks.
- Plan the exploration and sustainable development of geological resources.
- Process, interpret and present field data using qualitative and quantitative techniques, and suitable computer programmes.
- Recognise geomorphological systems, interpret relief forms and evaluate the evolution of the landscape.
- Use geographical information systems applied to geology.
Learning Outcomes
- Apply knowledge of geological processes to identifying and solving environmental problems, and to land-use planning and geological risk.
- Assess changes to geological environments and their level of degradation resulting from direct anthropogenic action or climate change.
- Create and manage databases and topologies to combine data and obtain 2D or 3D graphic results using GIS for environmental management, risk analysis and inventories of the geological heritage.
- Draw up thematic geological maps for environmental management and remediation, and to provide non-technical information on the geological heritage.
- Identify and process the value and the sources of field data with environmental implications.
- Interpret relief dynamics on different time-space scales in terms of risk and land-use planning.
- Plan the successive exploration stages for each type of project and the development stages from the perspective of sustainability, to avoid irreparable losses of resources and/or geological heritage.
- Situate the evolution of geological environments and mitigation and/or remediation proposals within space-time scales.
- Synthesise and select laboratory data, and process it qualitatively and quantitatively using computer programmes.
- Undertake professional activity in the field of environmental geology, complying with moral and ethical principles.
Content
1.- Landscape: planning and management
2.- Basic mathematical tools
3.- Introduction to the physical media
4.- Management of water quality
5.- Mangement of water quantity
6.- Energy management
7.- Lanscape conservation
Methodology
Lectures and case study
Assessment
Mid-term exams
Assessment Activities
Title |
Weighting |
Hours |
ECTS |
Learning Outcomes |
2 Mid-Terms |
30 |
1
|
0.04 |
2, 6
|
Case study |
5 |
2
|
0.08 |
9, 2, 5, 8
|
Pop quiz |
35% |
4
|
0.16 |
7, 10, 9, 1, 3, 2, 5, 6, 8, 4
|
Bibliography
Same as in catalan version