Environmental Science: Soil & Land Management

My morning class this period is Land Degradation & Development. Each week we have a group project which normally culminates in a ppt presentation and sometimes a paper to go along with it. I'm going to post the powerpoints and documents we have done here to keep track.




Week 1: Case Study-Water Retention on Crete

Week 2: Case Study: Water Security in Bolivia (Tomoroco Watershed)

Supplemental Document

Week 3: Case Study: Water Harvesting Technologies in South East Tunisia

Background Information

Recharge Well

Technology area: 10 - 100 km2

Conservation measure: structural

Stage of intervention: prevention of land degradation

Origin: developed externally / introduced through project, 10-50 years ago

Land use: cropland, grazing land

Climate: arid, subtropics

WOCAT database reference: QT TUN014en on cdewocat.unibe.ch/wocatQT

Related approach: Dryland watershed management approach (QA TUN09)

Planting Pits and Stone Lines

Technology area: 40 km2

Conservation measure: structural

Stage of intervention: rehabilitation /

reclamation of denuded land

Origin: developed externally / introduced through project, < 10 years ago

Land use: mixed (silvo-pastoralism) and cropland

Climate: semi-arid, tropics

WOCAT database reference: QT NIG002en on cdewocat.unibe.ch/wocatQT

Related approach: Participatory land rehabilitation (QA NIG001en)

Part 1 of Possibilities from WOCAT database:

Cisterns

Contour stone bunds and lines

Planting pits

Rechange wells