The student will acquire in-depth knowledge of the fundamental elements of urban and watershed ecology, integrating the two disciplines in the understanding, description, analysis, and representation of territorial objects in the various environmental matrices and in particular of aquatic systems. The course focuses on the use of study techniques to characterize, analyze and develop scenarios of changes induced in environmental systems by urban and territorial planning policies. At the end of the course, the student will have learned:

(1) Knowledge and understanding: the student will acquire the necessary tools to understand the processes, structure, functions, ecosystem relationships and spatial and temporal dynamics generated by the action of natural and anthropic factors in ecosystems.
(2) Ability to apply knowledge and understanding: the student will be able to apply the founding principles of ecosystem analysis in the urban and landscape-territorial context as a precursor to the correct analysis of interventions and project proposals involving other disciplines. The tools and skills of analysis and criticism will be implemented through the examination of case studies and field activities. The student will be able to represent the actions and phenomena studied through graphic tools, synthetic indicators, forecasting and comparison models in similar contexts.
(3) Making judgments: The student will acquire the ability to interpret, elaborate and evaluate possible actions in the landscape-territorial field by analyzing the impacts on the structural, process and functioning components of the ecosystems considered.
(4) Communication skills: the student will be able to communicate and relate his work and to operate within diversified working groups using a quantitative analysis perspective and a holistic approach. The student will also be able to produce synthetic reports relating to environmental analysis and characterization.