Syllabus
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| 1 | River restoration is another form of indirect and direct river engineering, undertaken to Improving hydrologic, geomorphic, and ecological processes within a river system. River restoration has become important as people have come to realize that alteration of hydrology, water chemistry, and biology of rivers has unintended consequences in urban and other areas. Such efforts require restoration of the natural hydrology and understanding of how the dynamic equilibrium of geomorphology can be restored to lead to long-term stability of the system. Restoration targets need to consider geomorphology, life history of species that managers are interested in, and desired ecosystem functions. The most complete restoration will also consider the natural heterogeneity, landscape connectivity, and linkages across ecological scales. This is required to allow rivers to provide ecosystem services such as flood protection. River restoration in all parts of the world, is increasingly including consideration of physical processes, such as bank erosion, sediment transport, channel incision, and water flow patterns, as a necessary condition for enhancing river conditions and promoting channel recovery. A progressive evolution toward process-based restoration has occurred, where the aim is to restore natural geomorphic processes to promote conditions of self-sustaining physical diversity, rather than tackling problems through local interventions. In addition, applications of morphological restoration have shifted toward higher-energy, bedload-transport-dominated channels. In such environments, successful restoration must include the full spectrum of scales and consideration of the related natural processes and human boundary conditions. | |
| 2 | Geomorphology, Ecology, Hydrology, and soil science | |
| 3 | Critical Thinking, Systems Thinking, Creative Thinking, Future Thinking | |
| 4 | Lectures using PowerPoint. Collaborative learning. Projects-based learning. Questions and Answers | |
| 5 | Active participation of students in collaborative learning and projects-based learning | |
| 6 | Posthoorn, R., Vijverberg, T., De Visser, R., & Viveen, B. (2019). Restoration through reclamation. Civil Engineering Magazine Archive, 89(8), 64-71. Pasternack, G. B. (2022). River restoration: disappointing, nascent, yet desperately needed. Rivera-Monroy, V. H., Delaune, R. D., Owens, A. B., Visser, J., White, J. R., Twilley, R. R., ... & Benitez, J. A. (2011). 8.07: Removal of Physical Materials from Systems. Loss of Space, Area, and Habitats. Treatise on estuarine and coastal science, 185-215. Kentula, M. E. (1989). Wetland creation and restoration: the status of the science. Corvallis Environmental Research Laboratory, Office of Research and Development, US Environmental Protection Agency. Rinaldi, M., Wyzga, B., Dufour, S., Bertoldi, W., & Gurnell, A. (2013). River Processes and Implications for Fluvial Ecogeomorphology: An European Perspectives. In Treatise on Geomorphology, Vol. 12 (pp. 1-15). Academic Press. | |
| 7 | Projects: 8 Class activity: 3 Quiz: 4 Final exam: 5 |