PhD in Sustainable development and cooperation

Sustainable water use and stream ecology

Sustainable water use and stream ecology

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Course objectives

The aim of this course is to acquire the ability to understand, interpret and manage data relating to the constitutive and functional characteristics of streams, their biodiversity, their importance and the need to protect the water resource. Moreover, the aim of the course is to provide the student with practical skills that can enable him to operate in the field of sustainable stream management by successfully cooperating  with other specialists and researchers

Results of learning outcomes

Knowledge & Understanding

During the course and filed activity the student will have the opportunity to directly observe some themes and problems related to stream environments and apply the knowledge acquired.

Making Judgements

Thanks to the knowledge acquired, the student will be able

to master the subject to the point of carrying out personal interpretations and readings

to independently investigate detailed study of particular problems or specific cases

to participate actively and independently in interdisciplinary projects, collaborating with hydraulic engineers, geologists, biologists

Communication skills

At the end of this course the student will be able to communicate, in a clear way, even to an audience of non-specialists, the issues relating to the structure, function and sustainable management of stream environments.

Learnig ability

The acquired knowledge represents a tool for further methodological and knowledge studies aimed at the conservation and sustainable management of streams and their communities.

Program

Streams and rivers are increasingly threatened by pressures that act at local (human needs for the most varied uses, from hydroelectric to potable, from irrigation to artificial snow, and much more) and global (e.g. climate change which is altering hydrology and water reserves) levels. In this context, the study and implementation of sustainable management of the water resource is a fundamental priority. Aim of this module is to provide information about: basis of stream ecology; human and environmental needs; sustainable use of water resource; future scenarios, with emphasis on possible water availability reduction and flow extremes increase.

Field samplings in the Po river and visit to the ALPSTREAM lab in Ostana will be made.

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