Natural Risks Prevention and Management

Recommended Prerequisites

Not appliable.

Teaching Methods

Expositive methodologies.

Realization of Workgroups for discussion and thematic presentation.

Planning and detailed explanation of exercises with methodological steps.

Discussion of real cases in situation of presentation of arguments and resolution of problems.

Learning Outcomes

The students are presented with knowledge about (1 )the typology of biotic and abiotic risks to which rural spaces are exposed: hydrogeomorphological processes, fires and harmfull biotic agents. (2) The aim is for students to know the main processes of hazard and susceptibility, the forcers of the dynamics and the exposed elements or vectors of transmission. (3) Analysis and mitigation methodologies are developed in a multidisciplinary perspective, predisposing them to deepen the presented themes.

Work Placement(s)

No

Syllabus

A - Concepts of susceptibility, vulnerability, exposure and risk.

B - Erosion, mass movements, water flow. Forest waste models and fire propagation

C - Factors determining and determining the risk. Evolutionary dynamics, forcers and transmission vectors.

D - Pests, biotic agents and harmful species (eg pine nematode, eucalyptus weevil, woody invaders, etc.)

E - Soil use and occupation and transformation dynamics. Urban / rural / forest interface.

F - Risk management models. Ways of mitigation and adaptation.

G - Form of recovery of degraded rural areas.

Head Lecturer(s)

Alexandre Manuel de Oliveira Soares Tavares

Assessment Methods

Assessment
Other: 40.0%
Synthesis work: 60.0%

Bibliography

Não aplicável