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Dear students
Welcome to the introduction of Wetland management course, the course is intended to provide knowledge on the best wetland management practices for sustainable environmental management practices. So you are welcome for this course and kindly read carefully and study hard for the successful of better understanding of this course.For more details about this module please click here.
Course Objectives:
The objective of the course is to introduce students to the application of ecological principles in wetland ecosystems, to the diversity and functional values of wetlands world-wide, and to best-management practices for wetland conservation and restoration. The objectives of the course are mainly aligned in broad sense as follow:
- Provide to the student the current concept of wetlands and its methods for the delimitation (identification, delineation, and classification, etc.) and assessment.
- Understand and evaluate the factors that affect pedogenesis phenomena
- Identify the various ways that cause the wetland degradations in order to make a plan for exploitation agricultural potential with reducing any harmful environmental incidence
- Be familiarized with the fundamental aspects of wetlands ecology
Learning outcomes:
After completion this course student should have to
- Understand the concept of wetland, the intrinsic qualities and ecological services provided by wetlands and its value to human
- Be able to identify the hydric soil indicators in the field to delineate wetlands
- Know the fundamental processes and the descriptive or analytical characteristic of specific soil covered under wetlands area, then wetland soil taxonomy( wetland suborder)
- Understand the criteria and indicators used for hydric soils
- To Provide knowledge to the students on the current concept of wetlands and its methods for delimitation (identification, delineation, and classification and assessment, Etc.) and introduce students to the application of ecological principles in wetland ecosystems, to the diversity and functional values of wetlands world-wide, and to best-management practices for wetland conservation and restoration
- To understand and evaluate the factors that affect pedogenesis phenomena
- To Identify the various ways that cause the wetland degradation in order to make a plan for exploitation with reducing any harmful environmental impact;
- to Understand the concept of wetland, the intrinsic qualities and ecological services provided by wetlands and its value to human
- to Be able to identify the hydric soil indicators in the field to delineate wetlands
- to Know the fundamental processes and the descriptive or analytical characteristic of specific soil covered under wetlands area, then wetland soil taxonomy( wetland suborder)
- to understand the criteria and indicators used for hydric soils
Activities
online lectures
providing assignments
providing reading materials
Literature
Ramsar convetion secretariat, 2010, Managing wetlands, Ramsar handbook 18 edition, switzerland
Facilitators contacts
NSANZIMANA Oreste,Msc
University of RWANDA, College of Agriculture and Veterinary Medecine
Phone contact+250)788664238
Email:nsanzi2001@yahoo.fr