Geographical Sciences and technologies for environment and health

Dublin Descriptors Knowledge and understanding Successful students will have acquired knowledge and comprehension of: - the mode of action of the main elements of marine and continental hydrosphere and of cryosphere; - the agents and mechanisms of the exogenous morphogenetic processes and of their relationships with climate and structural conditions; - the different relief landforms deriving from exogenous morphogenetic processes. Applying knowledge and understanding Successful students will have acquired: -skill in the elaboration and interpretation of hydrological, glaciological and meteomarine data; -skill in interpreting landforms on the basis of topographic maps examination; - skill in reconstructing the morphological evolution of relief also on the basis of morphological maps interpretation; - skill in doing interpretative morphological profiles; -skill in reconstructing the past morphological evolution of Earth relief and in predicting its future evolution Making judgements Successful students will be able to: - evaluate the stability or instability conditions of relief slopes in different morphoclimatic contexts; - evaluate the hydrological and geomorphological conditions that help flood occurrences; -recognize human activities that are responsible for soil accelerated erosion and beach erosion. Communication skills Successful students will be able to: - communicate information, ideas, problems and solution concerning the phenomena of geomorphological instability and the deriving risks: -discuss about environmental impact with knowledge of the facts; -to write simple reports on the Geomorphology of a territory, based on the interpretation of geothematic maps. Learning skills Successful students will have acquired the necessary skills to tackle the more complex studies, concerning Applied Geomorphology and Environmental Geology in an independent and critical way.