Water Resources Management

Code:

B4055

Acronym:

B4055

Keywords
Classification	Keyword
OFICIAL	Biology

Instance: 2018/2019 - 1S

Active?	Yes
Responsible unit:	Department of Biology
Course/CS Responsible:	Master in Biological Aquatic Resources

Cycles of Study/Courses

Acronym	No. of Students	Study Plan	Curricular Years	Credits UCN	Credits ECTS	Contact hours	Total Time
M:BGQ	10	Plano de Estudos do M:BGQA_2013-2014	1	-	6	42	162
M:RBA	7	Study plan since 2013/2014	1	-	6	42	162

Teaching language

Portuguese

Objectives

This discipline aims at giving the students a deep understanding of water resources managing process, both in legal and procedural aspects, as well as in technical and scientific ones.

Learning outcomes and competences

The student should be able to participate in a multidisciplinary team under the framework of a water resources managing process, executing with a medium degree of autonomy all the tasks involved in this kind of process.

The learning outcomes of the discipline translate in the development of the skills previously defined.

Working method

Presencial

Pre-requirements (prior knowledge) and co-requirements (common knowledge)

Non applicable

Program

1 - Introduction to water resources managing process.Surface and underground resources. The water cycle.

2 - Basic notions of aquatic ecology. Basic notions of aquatic geomorphology.

3 - Methods in aquatic ecology and geomorphology. Sampling of diatoms, macroinvertebrates, macrophytes and fish in rivers. Sampling of plankton and fishes in lakes and reservoirs. RHS. QBR. GQC: Interpreting water quality results using biotic indicators and indexes: EQR.

4 - Managing water resources - general principles; legislation (WFD, law 54/2005, law 58/2005, Decreto-Lei 77/2006); the tipology of the portuguese rivers; PGRH.

5 - Water uses - abstraction; WTP and STP's; industrial uses; reservoirs; navigation; case studies.

6 - Restoring aquatic ecosystems - general principles; methodologies; case studies.

7 - Basic concepts of hydrogeology - economic importance of underground water. Dynamics of aquifer systems. Sustainable management of aquifer systems.

8 – Field trip to the Gaia Biological Park, for the observation of several hidrological processes.

Mandatory literature

Mackie, Gerald.; Applied aquatic ecosystem concepts (2nd Edition), Kendall/Hunt Publishing Company, Iowa, 2004
Moreira, I.; Ferreira, M. T.; Cortes, R.; Pinto, P.; Almeida, P.; Ecossistemas aquáticos e ribeirinhos - Ecologia, gestão e conservação, INAG, 2002
Guerreiro, N.; Pereira, P.; Poluição e qualidade da água, INAG, 2002
Alves, M. H.; Bernardo, J.; Caudais ecológicos em Portugal, INAG, 2003
Oliveira, J. (Coord,); Santos, J. M.; Teixeira, A.; Ferreira, M. T.; Pinheiro, P.; Geraldes, A.; Bochechas, J.; AQUARIPORT: Programa nacional de monitorização de recursos piscícolas e de avaliação da qualidade ecológica de rios, DGRF, 2007
Ball, P.; Uma biografia da água, Temas & Debates, 1999
Bouguerra, M.; As batalhas da água - Por um bem comum da humanidade, Campo das Letras, 2003
Simonovic, S; Managing water resources – methods and tools for a systems approach, UNESCO Publishing, 2009
Petts, G.; Calow, P. (Eds.); River restoration, Blackwell Science, 1996
Cowx, I., Welcomme, R.; Rehabilitation of rivers for fish, FAO. Fishing News Books, 1998
Brierley, G., Fryirs, K.; River futures - An integrative scientific approaach to river repair, SER. Island Press, 2008
Brierley, G., Fryirs, K.; Geomorphology and river management – Applications of the river styles framework, Blackwell Publishing, 2005
Downs, P., Gregory, K.; River channel management – Towards sustainable catchment hydrosystems, Arnold, 2004
Kondolf, G., Piegay, H. (Eds.); Tools in fluvial geomorphology, Wiley, 2003
Lévêque, C.; Écosystèmes aquatiques, Hachette, 1996

Teaching methods and learning activities

Theoretical classes, using slide show presentations

Group work, to prepare a report to be presented by the students

Field trip.

keywords

Natural sciences > Biological sciences > Biodiversity
Natural sciences > Environmental science > Ecology > Ecosystems

Evaluation Type

Distributed evaluation with final exam

Assessment Components

designation	Weight (%)
Exame	50,00
Trabalho prático ou de projeto	50,00
Total:	100,00

Amount of time allocated to each course unit

designation	Time (hours)
Frequência das aulas	42,00
Total:	42,00

Eligibility for exams

Frequency of the discipline classes under the law and regulations in force.

Obtain minimum rating (9.5 on a scale of 0 to 20, in accordance with regulations in force) in the overall evaluation (final exam + report).

Calculation formula of final grade

Final exam – 50% + Report – 50%

Examinations or Special Assignments

Besides the final exam, students must integrate a work group (the number of elements in each group will be defined by the teachers) to present, at the end of the semester (normally, in the last two weeks of classes) a report related with water resources management. Each groups theme will be defined together with the teachers.

Internship work/project

Non applicable

Special assessment (TE, DA, ...)

Non applicable

Classification improvement

Classification improvement is done according to law and regulations in force, in final exam.

For classification improvement, only the exam is repeated. The report grade is not liable of improvement.

Observations

Students that don’t speak Portuguese may be subjected to alternative forms of evaluation.

There will be no oral examinations.