SOIL BIOENGINEERING
Academic Year 2017/2018 - 2° YearCredit Value: 6
Scientific field: AGR/08 - Agricultural hydraulics and watershed protection
Taught classes: 28 hours
Exercise: 28 hours
Term / Semester: 2°
Learning Objectives
Students will acquire knowledge on the possibilities of application of bio-engineering techniques in relation to: soil conservation, hydraulic control of rivers; re-naturalization of degraded and / or contaminated sites (landfills, quarries, etc.), mitigation of the impacts due to the construction of particular infrastructures (roads, railways, etc.), environmental requalification of wet areas, de-pollution of rivers through phytodepuration and lagoon systems. In addition, students will acquire skills for designing bio-engineering interventions by using plants with particular reference to those techniques that can be applied in arid and semi-arid climates.
Detailed Course Content
Rivers control; evaluation of the solid and liquid flow of small watersheds. Sizing and design of longitudinal and transversal arrangement works; bio-engineering interventions for the arrangement of the riverbed and the banks. Reconstruction and fluvio-morphological redevelopment of rivers and wetlands. Use of bio-engineering techniques at the slope scale. Applications for recovery and conservation of coastal areas. Re-qualification and de-pollution of surface water bodies.
Textbook Information
1. Materials provided during the lessons;
2. Ferro V.. La sistemazione dei bacini idrografici. Ed. McGraw-Hill, 2006 (II edizione);
3. Ferro V. Elementi di idraulica e idrologia per le scienze agrarie, ambientali e forestali Ed. McGraw- Hill, 2013;
4. Meinhard Schiechtl H., Stern R.. Ingegneria naturalistica. Manuale delle costruzioni idrauliche. Edizioni ARCA, 1997;
5. Manuali APAT. Atlante delle opere di sistemazione dei versanti, Roma, n.10/2002 (http://www.isprambiente.gov.it/contentfiles/00003400/3486-atlante-versanti-2edizione.pdf/);
7. Manuali APAT. Atlante delle opere di sistemazione fluviale, Roma, n.27/2003 (http://www.isprambiente.gov.it/contentfiles/00003400/3494-atlante-delle-opere-di-sistemazione-fluviale.pdf/);
8. MANUALI APAT Atlante delle opere di sistemazione costiera (http://www.isprambiente.gov.it/it/pubblicazioni/manuali-e-linee-guida/atlante-delle-opere-di-sistemazione-costiera).