1) knowledge and understanding

Supply scientific and  technical knowledge on soil bioengineering.. The course provides criteria for river and slope restoration by soil bio engineering techniques, with particularly reference to small mountain catchments. Specific topics on the use of native plants and principles of river restoration in Mediterranean environments. Reclamation of water courses and use of nature based solution for water management and treatment in urban and agro-forest areas.

  2) ability to apply knowledge and understanding

the student will be able to assess the need for intervention with naturalistic engineering techniques and will be able to design small works for the reduction and mitigation of hydrogeological risk and the environmental requalification of degraded areas.

 3) autonomy of judgment

The student will acquire a specific ability to identify and design the best type of works for the reduction and mitigation of hydrogeological risk and the environmental requalification of degraded areas in relation to the Mediterranean context.

 4) communication skills

The student will acquire the technical language for the design and management of bio-engineering works, this skill will be acquired in particular during the exercises and during the meetings with technicians of the sector that will be organized during the course.

5) learning ability

The student will acquire an autonomous in-depth ability by consulting other textbooks and technical manuals available online, this ability will be particularly stimulated by the seminar activities that will be organized during the course

6) Contribution to the goals of the 2030 Agenda for the Sustainable Development 

Goal No. 6: CLEAN WATER AND SANITARY SERVICES

6.5 By 2030, implement integrated water resources management at all levels, including through transboundary cooperation as appropriate

6.6 By 2020, protect and restore water-related ecosystems, including mountains, forests, wetlands, rivers, aquifers and lakes

6.a By 2030, expand international cooperation and capacity building in support of developing countries on water and related sanitation, including water harvesting systems, desalination, water efficiency, wastewater treatment, recycling and reuse technologies

GOAL 11: SUSTAINABLE CITIES AND COMMUNITIES

11.b By 2020, significantly increase the number of cities and human settlements that adopt and implement integrated policies and plans towards inclusiveness, resource efficiency, climate change mitigation and adaptation, disaster resilience, development and implementation, in line with the ‘Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015-2030’, comprehensive disaster risk management at all levels

GOAL 13: COMBAT CLIMATE CHANGE

13.1 Strengthen resilience and adaptive capacity to climate-related hazards and natural disasters in all countries

13.1 Strengthen resilience and adaptive capacity to climate-related hazards and natural disasters in all countries

13.2 Integrating climate change mitigation measures into national policies, strategies and plans

13.3 Improve education, awareness and human and institutional capacity on climate change mitigation, adaptation, impact reduction and early warning

13.b Promote mechanisms to increase capacity for effective climate change-related planning and management in least developed countries and small island developing states focusing, inter alia, on women, youth and local and marginalised communities 

GOAL 14: LIFE UNDER WATER

14.1 By 2025, prevent and significantly reduce marine pollution of all kinds, particularly from land-based activities, including marine litter and nutrient pollution of waters

14.2 By 2020, sustainably manage and protect marine and coastal ecosystems to avoid significant adverse impacts, including by enhancing their resilience and taking action for their restoration, in order to achieve healthy and productive oceans

GOAL 15: LIFE ON EARTH

15.1 By 2020, ensure the conservation, restoration and sustainable use of terrestrial and inland freshwater ecosystems and their services, in particular forests, wetlands, mountains and drylands, in line with obligations under international agreements

15.3 By 2030, combat desertification, restore degraded land and soils, including land affected by desertification, drought and flooding, and strive to achieve a world without land degradation

15.5 Take urgent and significant measures to reduce degradation of natural habitats, halt biodiversity loss and, by 2020, protect and prevent the extinction of threatened species

Modalities:

-          lecture

-          dedicated seminar

-          study visit

-          study materials

Credit total amount: 6

Total hours 63 (21 hrs for lectures and 42 hrs for applied activities).

The course is articulated in lectures and lab training sessions. Video projector during lectures and labtop for training session with specific softwares will be used.

Technical seminars with invited speakers (technicias) will be performed.

As a guarantee of equal opportunities and in compliance with current laws, interested students can ask for a personal interview in order to plan any compensatory and/or dispensatory measures, based on their specific needs and on teaching objectives of the discipline. It is also possible to ask the departmental contacts of CInAP (Center for Active and Participatory Inclusion - Services for Disabilities and/or DSAs). 

A good knowledge of physics and hydraulics is required. Furthermore, a good knowledge of software tools (Excel, GIS ancd CAD) is required.

The course is articulated in lectures and applied sessions. Main topics: small mountain watersheds; modelling floods in small watershed and measures to mitigate flood effects on river and streams and to restore small watersheds; environmental impact assessment methodologies and techniques to mitigate environmental impacts of some hydraulic facilities (dams, weir, embankment, etc.); water erosion on slopes and soil bio-engineering control techniques, use of native plants in soil bioengineering. Renaturation, Rehabilitation and Ecological Reconstruction of streams, rivers and shorelines. Techniques for watercourse reclamation: vegetated buffer zones, reconstructed and contructed wetland, 

1. Lecture Notes distributed during the course
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
6.                 (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
8.                 (http://www.isprambiente.gov.it/contentfiles/00003400/3494-atlante-delle-opere-di-sistemazione-fluviale.pdf/).

Evaluate the surface of a hydrographic basin and its main morphometric characteristics

Calculation of the concentration time of a small watershed

Calculation of the maximum flow rates of a small basin with the rational method or with the SCS method

Calculation of the design slope of a torrential watercourse

Hydraulic sizing of cross section waterworks in a small river

Describe naturalistic engineering interventions