Planning and Management of Water
Code: 104265 ECTS Credits: 6| Degree | Type | Year | Semester |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2503710 Geography, Environmental Management and Spatial Planning | OT | 4 | 2 |
Contact
- Name:
- Angel Cebollada Frontera
- Email:
- angel.cebollada@uab.cat
Use of Languages
- Principal working language:
- catalan (cat)
- Some groups entirely in English:
- No
- Some groups entirely in Catalan:
- Yes
- Some groups entirely in Spanish:
- No
Prerequisites
None
Objectives and Contextualisation
This subject offers the tools for the water planning and manegement in a Mediterrean context. For more details, see contents.
Competences
- Apply the basic regional, environmental and urban legal regulations for regional and environmental planning.
- Design and manage regional, environmental and urban planning instruments.
- Draw up action and intervention plans in the territory which respond to sociodemographic and environmental problems.
- Generate innovative and competitive proposals in professional activity.
- Introduce theoretical and applied aspects of the main regional, environmental and urban policies in professional practice.
- Students must be capable of applying their knowledge to their work or vocation in a professional way and they should have building arguments and problem resolution skills within their area of study.
- Work cooperatively in multidisciplinary teams.
Learning Outcomes
- Describe the water cycle from a physical, socioeconomic and systematic viewpoint.
- Generate innovative and competitive proposals in professional activity.
- Identify methods and techniques for managing the water cycle.
- Propose ways of managing water and energy within the Catalan regulatory framework.
- Students must be capable of applying their knowledge to their work or vocation in a professional way and they should have building arguments and problem resolution skills within their area of study.
- Understand water legislation.
- Work cooperatively in multidisciplinary teams.
Content
1. Introduction to the integral water cycle
2. Application of GIS in the planning and management of water
3. Planning and evaluation of water systems
4. Wastewater management and reuse
5. Drinking water management
6. Economic water management
Methodology
Docent methodology will be lectures, practices and field work
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 | |||
| Field work | 12.5 | 0.5 | 1, 3, 7 |
| Lab | 12.5 | 0.5 | 2, 5, 7 |
| Lectures | 23.5 | 0.94 | 6, 1, 3, 5 |
| Type: Supervised | |||
| Tutorials | 15 | 0.6 | 5, 7 |
| Type: Autonomous | |||
| Lab | 15 | 0.6 | 2, 5, 7 |
| Oral speech | 10 | 0.4 | 5 |
| Report | 40 | 1.6 | 2, 3, 7 |
| Report field work | 20 | 0.8 | 1, 3, 5 |
Assessment
GIS practice (10%)
A specific case to be carried out with GIS is set out: Finding a body of water and associating and calculating the percentages and / or surface area of its uses and land cover. Export this map with topographic base and orthophotomap.
Work Outing from the river field (analyzing the effects, causes and consequences of the quality status of the different river courses) (25%)
After the field trip to the river Tordera / Besòs where we will have known the different main courses that make it up and its ecological status, each student will have to do a work (maximum 3 pages) which defines in general the basin visited with its main characteristics (municipalities, river courses, temperature, sociodemography, etc.) and a descriptive analysis is made of the main components that have defined the ecological status for each river course. Finally, it will have to explain what future consequences can be derived and what solutions could be considered for these specific spaces.
Oral presentation on cities with problems related to water resources (25%)
Each student will receive at random a problem related to the planning and management of water in a specific case. In an oral presentation of 10-15 minutes, you will have to present to the class group the specific case, its problems and what solutions could be applied. At the end of the presentation the student will have to present 2 or 3 questions to create a discussion in class.
Conflict planning (40%)
Group work: they will have to search for a problem related to water planning and management, detect the main actors involved, identify the problems and create a series of solutions that can be applied to what most of the actors involved they benefit from it. This work will be divided into an oral presentation (20%) and a written work (20%).
Evaluationcriteria
In the event that two of the assessable points have not been presented or have been suspended (grade below 5), students may be eligible for a resit exam, the final grade after the resit exam may not exceed 7. Students who want to choose to raise a grade can also apply, in no case will it mean a reduction in the grade they already have.
Not Evaluable
The student will receive the grade of "Not assessable" as long as he has not delivered more than 30% of the assessment activities
Review of marks
At the time of carrying out each assessment activity, the teacher will inform the student (Moodle) of the procedure and date of revision of the marks.
Assessment Activities
| Title | Weighting | Hours | ECTS | Learning Outcomes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lab | 10 | 0 | 0 | 5 |
| Oral Speech | 25 | 1.5 | 0.06 | 3, 4 |
| Project | 40 | 0 | 0 | 6, 1, 3, 4, 7 |
| Report field work | 25 | 0 | 0 | 2, 4, 7 |
Bibliography
At the begining will be gives the reading list
Software
Office and QGIS