Coastal zone and river management

course

General course information

Course name: Coastal Zone and River Management

Code: GEO4-4403

Size: 7.5 ects

Start and end date: the course will be given from Tuesday 15 February 2011 up to and including Thursday 14 April 2011.

Number of lectures a week: 2 x 4 hours of lectures, including invited lectures, presentations by students, progress meetings of groups. Additional time should be available for independent research activities by students, collecting literature, interviewing key players and excursion.

Language: English (and sometimes Dutch when required with guests).

Course guide

Course coordinators

prof. dr. P. Hoekstra
prof. dr. H. Middelkoop
dr. A. Oost

Background and Prerequisites

Many students with a MSc Physical Geography will find a job in advisory settings of consultancy or administrative authorities involved in water, coastal zone or river management. To improve their advisory competences this course is aimed to make students get acquainted with the practices of coastal zone and river management.
Students should have appropriate physical geography or geology courses, particularly in fluvial and coastal geomorphology and/or sedimentology. They have to appreciate the role of interdisciplinary science and the role of (applied) sciences in societal issues and coastal zone and river basin management problems and challenges.

Literature

Appendix 3 of "Deltacommissie" report.

Lectures

Introductions to the course and river management.
River management 1.
River management 2.
Climate and measures.

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