Academic Year 2017/2018
- Docente: Donatella Pavanelli
- Credits: 4
- SSD: AGR/08
- Language: Italian
- Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
- Campus: Bologna
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Corso:
Second cycle degree programme (LM) in
Sciences and Management of Nature (cod. 8209)
Also valid for Second cycle degree programme (LM) in Planning and management of agro-territorial, forest and landscape (cod. 8532)
Learning outcomes
To provide tools for landscape survey and analysis, giving a startpoint for handling soil and water conservation issues, in an approach integrated with the environment and its hydrological, hydraulic and geomorphological aspects.
Course contents
Surface runoff erosion, slope instability, mass movement. Geotechnics characterisation rocks versus water.
Soil loss predictions , modelling soil erosion, Universal Soil Loss Equation.Action of watercourses . Surface water circulation. Hydrography and patterns of stream drainage area
Elements of fluvial hydrology Water flow, measurement methods. Coefficient of discharge.Modes of transport: suspension, traction and solution
Sediment yield from river basin. Basin water balance, drainage coefficient.Discharge hydrograph, characteristic curves
Study of precipitation and water flow extremes for the design of fluvial engineering works: climate possibility distributions, Gumbel statistical analysis, storm return time.
Subsurface water , water table and artesian aquifers, wells.
Biothecnical slope protection : water control and slope protection. Role of vegetation in the stability and protection of slopes.. Rules, hydrogeology principlesWind erosion protection : hydraulic-forestry engineering techniques.
Topic-specific cartography : Reading and interpretation of topic-specific maps (slope, lithologic and slope-distribution stability, etc.).
Readings/Bibliography
D. Pavanelli (2005). Appunti dalle lezioni: Tutela ambientale e riassetto idraulico del territorio. Bologna, pubbl. in proprio, p. 1-110
D. Pavanelli, Geologia applicata e idrologia. Appunti dalle lezioni per i corsi in teledidattica interfacoltà dell'Univ. Cattolica Sacro Cuore, Laurea in Sc. per l'ambiente e il territorio (sede Brescia) e Laurea in Sc. Agroambientali e del territorio (sede Piacenza). Pubbl. in proprio, Bologna, giugno 2005, pp. 1-181
- V. Bagarello, V. Ferro, Erosione e conservazione del suolo, McGraw-Hill , 2006
- G. Gisotti, F.Zarlenga, Geologia Ambientale, principi e metodi, D.Flaccovio ed. PA 2004
- F.Florineth, Piante al posto del cemento, manuale di Ingegnaria naturalistica e verde tecnico, ed. Il verde editoriale, MI, 2007.
- M. Greppi, Idrologia – Hoepli ed. 2004
- L.Da Deppo, C.Datei, P.Saladin, Sistemazione dei corsi d'acqua Ed. LibreriaCortina Padova, 1997
- N. Matarrese, Idraulica Agraria – ed. Laterza
- F.Basso, Difesa del suolo e tutela dell'ambiente - Pitagora Ed. Bologna, 1995
- Manuale tecnico di ingegneria naturalistica – Regione Emilia Romagna e Veneto
- D.H.Gray, A.T.Leiser, Biotechnical slope protection and erosion control – Krieger Publshing Company Malabar, Florida
- U.Maione, A.Brath, L'ingegneria naturalistica nella sistemazione dei corsi d'acqua – Ed. BIOS Cosenza
Teaching methods
Partecipation in a seminar and an educational trip.
Assessment methods
Examination final oral exam
Teaching tools
The course is also in E-LEARNING, cartography, aerial images
Links to further information
https://elearning-cds.unibo.it
Office hours
See the website of Donatella Pavanelli