Environment Geology and Regional Planning

Code: GEO01440L

6 ECTS

Duration: 15 weeks/156 hours

Scientific Area: Geosciences

Teaching languages: Portuguese

Languages of tutoring support: Portuguese

Sustainable Development Goals

3. Saúde de qualidade - Assegurar uma vida saudável e promover o bem-estar para todos, em todas as idades.

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

6. Água potável e saneamento - Garantir disponibilidade e manejo sustentável da água e saneamento para todos.

12. Produção e consumo sustentáveis - Assegurar padrões de produção e de consumo sustentáveis.

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
5 ? Sismicity
6 ? Coastal hazards and coasltal erosion
7 ? Soils and erosion
8 ? Mass movement
9 ? 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).
Evaluation will result from: a) assessment of the independent work conducted and presented by each student; b) Written exam.