L910 – Soil Management
Module
Soil Management
Soil Management |
Module number
L910
Version: 1 |
Faculty
Agriculture/Environment/Chemistry
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Level
Master
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Duration
1 Semester
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Semester
Winter semester
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Module supervisor
Prof. Dr. rer. nat. habil. Christian Siewert |
Lecturer(s)
Prof. Dr. rer. nat. habil. Christian Siewert |
Course language(s)
English |
ECTS credits
5.00 credits |
Workload
150 hours |
Courses
4.00 SCH (1.00 SCH Lecture | 2.00 SCH Seminar | 1.00 SCH Internship) |
Self-study time
90.00 hours |
Pre-examination(s)
Protocol |
Examination(s)
Alternative examination - Paper |
Form of teaching
Lectures, seminar and field trips. Contributions from external experts |
Media type
No information
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Instruction content/structure
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Qualification objectives
Understanding of soils as a base of life and a product of complex interactions between geological parent material, climate and biological regulation processes (vegetation and fauna), formed on different scales of time and space during history of earth and under human impact during last millennia. Ability to empathize into soils as a non-renewable resource with different functions and features distinguishing soils from other carbon containing mineral substrates in the environment. Knowledge about main challenges, threads and degradation processes of soils in agriculture and forestry, induced by tourism and urban and rural development including an overview about the diversity of approaches to reduce resulting human impact on the environment on global and regional scale. Global and regional trends in land use research and skills in result interpretation, self-guided reflection and decision processes for setting own priorities. |
Social and personal skills
Ability to use skills in natural sciences to answer social development challenges with respect to local culture and land use traditions. |
Special admission requirements
No information
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Recommended prerequisites
Basic knowledge in soil science, field and laboratory work |
Continuation options
individual master thesis |
Literature
Plaster, Edward. Soil science and management. Cengage learning, 2013. Montgomery, David R. Dirt: the erosion of civilizations. Univ of California Press, 2012. Brady, Nyle C., and Ray R. Weil. Elements of the nature and properties of soils. No. 631.4 B733E. Upper Saddle River, NJ, USA:: Prentice hall, 2000 Schachtschabel, Paul. Lehrbuch der Bodenkunde. F. Enke, 1976. Tisdale, Samuel L., Werner L. Nelson, and James D. Beaton. Soil fertility and fertilizers. Collier Macmillan Publishers, 1985. O'Geen, Anthony. "Soils: Genesis and Geomorphology." Vadose Zone Journal6.2 (2007): 265-265. Singer, Michael J., and Donald Neville Munns. Soils: an introduction. No. Ed. 6. Macmillan Publishing Company, 2015 Essington, Michael E. Soil and water chemistry: An integrative approach. CRC press, 2015. Different scientific journals (Geoderma, Plant nutrition and soil science, European Soil Science Journal, and many others available online or in online libraries) |
Current teaching resources
Online data bases, libraries, publications, internet. Additional information will be made available on demand in internet |
Notes
No information
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Link to course/learning resources in OPAL
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