WATER PROTECTION AND MANAGEMENT

Academic Year 2018/2019 - 3° Year - Curriculum Tutela e valorizzazione del territorio

Learning Objectives

• Hydrology and Water Resources Management

  The course aims to analyze the sustainable management of water resources in agriculture through the study of hydrological processes. During the lessons issues related to: surface and underground hydrology, mass and energy exchanges affecting the continuous soil-plant-atmosphere system, water management techniques, including deficit irrigation strategies, will be treated. During the lessons, the possibility of reusing unconventional resources (including urban wastewater) in agriculture will be examined; monitoring techniques of agro-ecosystems will be examined through satellite remote sensing; minimally invasive techniques for monitoring the water status of the soil will be also treated.

Course Structure

• Hydrology and Water Resources Management

  Teaching includes lectures and exercises. The latter are related to the preparation of a hydrological study.

Detailed Course Content

• Hydrology and Water Resources Management

  Hydrology and Water Resources Management

  Hydrology:.Elements for the characterization of the hydrological basin in different climatic contexts; drought and flood hydrological analysis; study of the surface runoff using the SCS method; Hydrological soil characterization; Analysis of water and energy exchange processes in the soil-plant-atmosphere system; Water Resources Management: Study of the evapotranspiration processes related to soil hydrology. Remote sensing techniques applied to map crop evapotranspiration and vegetation indices; Use of the geophysical tomografy for the analysis of soil water dynamics. Planning of natural water resources, which integrates the use of unconventional water (treated urban wastewater, salt water, etc…) within water scarce contexts; wastewater reuse in agriculture; analysis of deficit irrigation criteria.

Textbook Information

• Hydrology and Water Resources Management

  McGraw-Hill, 2013	Idraulica e Idrologia per le scienze agrarie, ambientali e forestali	Vito ferro
  Hoepli, 2010	Conducibilità idraulica del suolo	Bagarello e Iovino
  Edagricole Università & Formazione, 2015	L’acqua in agricoltura	Marcello Mastrorilli
  Dipartimento di Agricoltura, Alimentazione e Ambiente	Dispense distribuite durante il corso	Consoli Simona