L910 – Soil Management

Module
Soil Management
Soil Management
Module number
L910
Version: 1
Faculty
Agriculture/Environment/Chemistry
Level
Master
Duration
1 Semester
Semester
Winter semester
Module supervisor

Prof. Dr. rer. nat. habil. Christian Siewert
christian.siewert(at)htw-dresden.de
Lecturer(s)

Prof. Dr. rer. nat. habil. Christian Siewert
christian.siewert(at)htw-dresden.de
Course language(s)

English
in "Soil Management"
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
in "Soil Management"
Examination(s)

Alternative examination - Paper
Module examination | Weighting: 100% | tested in English language
in "Soil Management"
Form of teaching

Lectures, seminar and field trips. Contributions from external experts
Media type
No information
Instruction content/structure
  1. Summarizing information and balancing knowledge distribution about local and global soil functions, global land use challenges, trends in regional soil use, soils as a non-renewable resource, human impact on soil formation processes in different scales of time and space.
  2. Effects of soil formation and degradation processes on social, economic and cultural challenges of long term society development with focus on literature data and up-to-date available information.
  3. Influence of short term soil formation and different soil use premises on ecosystem development opportunities, water supply and live quality.
  4. Distinction of soil features formed during ecosystem succession and by productive and non-productive land use.
  5. Basic skills in soil analyses under laboratory and field condition, in data management and interpretation including results from literature and research
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
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
Link to course/learning resources in OPAL
https://bildungsportal.sachsen.de/opal/auth/RepositoryEntry/26829225993
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