Landscape Restauration
LANDSCAPE RESTAURATION
PROFESSORS: XAVIER FÀBREGAS
ECTS: 3
SCHEDULE: TH 14.30-16.30
TECHNOLOGY FOR THE RECOVERY OF DEGRADED AREAS
Restauration course is focus on:
The establishment of the need for restoration: evaluation of landscape degradation, indicative parameters and possibilities of spontaneous regeneration. Distinction between Restoration, Recovery and Rehabilitation.
The introduction of vegetation: selection criteria of species; Techniques. Biodiversity criteria: from the scale of the ecosystem to that of the landscape. Development of criteria for the evaluation of successful restorations.
Revegetation techniques. Parameters to consider. Methods of slope stabilization. Bioengineering. Hydroseeding.
Case studies: restoration of quarries, public slopes, burned areas, protection of watersheds, dunes and river ecosystems.
At the end of the course, the students will work on an exercise in which the initial situation is analyzed and the methodology of restoration and stabilization of some points of the same is proposed.
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