Models
- Bioengineering watershed management
- Impact in the agricultural and forest landscape
- Soil stabilization and torrent control Bioengineering
- Realization and maintenance of the slope stabilization and river training
- Watershed rehabilitation.
Soil-water relations
surface runoff and runoff processes
Soil water erosion
Hydrology, hydraulics and soil bioengineering handbooks and publications. Moodle
Platform, Florence University
Learning Objectives
Knowledge acquired: natural risks management; bank and slope bioengineering
stabilization in hilly watersheds
Competence acquired (at the end of the course): design criteria for bank and slope
bioengineering stabilization
Skills acquired (at the end of the course):
- biotechnical evaluation
- bioengineering intervention analysis
Prerequisites
Courses to be used as requirements (required and/or recommended):
Courses recommmended: Idraulica e Idrologia Forestali, Botanica applicata
Teaching Methods
CFU: 6
lessons, workshops, and filed trips
Type of Assessment
oral or written test
Course program
Natural hazards, Flood modeling, Root reinforcement and slope stability,
Mountain Rivers Hydraulics; Forest Hydrology
Watershed bioengineering management
Hydro-geological hazard, vulnerability and risk
Watershed Management
Soil slope stabilization; Erosion control; River bed and bank stabilization and
rehabilitation
River training design
Introduction to slope root reinforcement and bank vegetation management
Bioengineering watershed management, Impact in the agricultural and forest
landscape, Soil stabilization and torrent control Bioengineering, Realization and
maintenance of the slope stabilization and river training, Land rehabilitation.
Field surveys