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2021/2022

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.

Contact

Name:
Joan Estalrich López
Email:
Juan.Estalrich@uab.cat

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

  1. Apply knowledge of geological processes to identifying and solving environmental problems, and to land-use planning and geological risk.
  2. Assess changes to geological environments and their level of degradation resulting from direct anthropogenic action or climate change.
  3. 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.
  4. Draw up thematic geological maps for environmental management and remediation, and to provide non-technical information on the geological heritage.
  5. Identify and process the value and the sources of field data with environmental implications.
  6. Interpret relief dynamics on different time-space scales in terms of risk and land-use planning.
  7. 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.
  8. Situate the evolution of geological environments and mitigation and/or remediation proposals within space-time scales.
  9. Synthesise and select laboratory data, and process it qualitatively and quantitatively using computer programmes.
  10. 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

Annotation: Within the schedule set by the centre or degree programme, 15 minutes of one class will be reserved for students to evaluate their lecturers and their courses or modules through questionnaires.

Activities

Title Hours ECTS Learning Outcomes
Type: Directed      
Case study 21 0.84 7, 10, 1, 3, 2, 5, 6, 8, 4
Lectures 112 4.48 7, 10, 1, 2, 5, 6, 8, 4
Type: Supervised      
Tutorials 10 0.4 7, 1, 5, 6, 4

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

Software

LINGO