Environmental resource assessment and management 750


 
Module code WDE 750
Qualification Postgraduate
Faculty Faculty of Natural and Agricultural Sciences
Module content

Determining resource potential of land on the basis of botanical composition, vegetation cover, animal grazing and browsing potential, water quality, soil quality, chemical, physical and biological soil degradation, soil erosion and other important environmental processes.  These are essential for integrated agricultural land use practices.  Evaluation of grasses and other vegetation types in terms of environmental adaptation, acceptability and adaptability to a sustainable utilisation system and the management requirements of an integrated and adaptive management system.

Module credits 14.00
Prerequisites No prerequisites.
Contact time 1 practical per week, 3 lectures per week
Language of tuition Module is presented in English
Department Department of Plant and Soil Sciences
Period of presentation Semester 1

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