Environment Geology and Regional Planning

Code: GEO13322L

6 ECTS

Duration: 15 weeks/156 hours

Scientific Area: Geology

Teaching languages: Portuguese

Languages of tutoring support: Portuguese, English

Regime de Frequência: Presencial

Presentation

To enable students with training on the use of Applied Geology tools for understanding and solving environmental problems, for the analysis of natural risks, and for the role of Geology in spatial planning.

Sustainable Development Goals

Educação de qualidade - Assegurar a educação inclusiva, e equitativa e de qualidade, e promover oportunidades de aprendizagem ao longo da vida para todos.

Learning Goals

To develop skills on the relevance of geological systems to Environment, sustainability and land-use planning, with a focus on the assessment of geologic hazards and on its mitigation.

1- Water cycle sustainability
2- Geologic hazards and land-use planning
3- Geologic risks and water resources
a) Floods
b) Groundwater contamination
c) Aquifer remediation and protection
4- Seismicity
5- Coastal hazards and coastal erosion
6- Soils and erosion
7- Mass movement
8- CO2 storage and climate change

Teaching Methods

Classroom work: The syllabus will be mainly taught in practical/theoretical lectures and under tutorial advisement from the lecturer (60 hours).
Independent work: students are to conduct, either individually or as groups, practical works on the contents taught at the classroom lectures, requesting when necessary the supervision of the lecturer and presenting and discussing the work developed in joint sessions with all the (60 hours).
The evaluation will include: (i) Continuous evaluation, depending on the result that the student will obtain in practical, individual, and group work, its presentation, and discussion (40%) and one frequency (60%); or (ii) Final Exam.