LANDSCAPE AND ENVIRONMENTAL GEOGRAPHY
oral examination
The course wants to offer to the students the instruments to understand and analise the phisical environment and its dinamics, relating to the world landscapes and to the Sardinian ones. Phisical geography has become more relevant to human affairs, more concerned with natural hazards and it's fundamental to understand human impact on environmental change.
The evolution of the landscapes, the question of plates, the shape of the continents, the weathering of rocks, the karstic process and karstic landforms, the granitic landscape. Soils and weathering, factors of soils formation. Cold environment, the formation of glacier ice, glacial processes and landscape. The climatic changes during the Pleistocene, climate in the Olocene. Coastal landscapes, waves action on coastal lines, the beaches, sea-level changes. Rivers and drainage basic patterns, rivers erosion and sedimentation. Mass movements, slope instability. reading landscapes from topographic maps.
F. PRESS, R. SIEVER, J. GROTZINGER, T. H. JORDAN , Capire la Terra. Editore Zanichelli, Bologna 2006.
CLAUDIO SMIRAGLIA E ROBERTO BERNARDI, L’ambiente dell’uomo. Introduzione alla geografia fisica. Patron Editore, Bologna, 1999.
GIOVANNI BATTISTA CASTIGLIONI, Geomorfologia. UTET, Torino, 1995.
S. MARSHAK, La Terra. Ritratto di un pianeta. Editore Zanichelli, Bologna 2004.
FLORA PAGETTI (a cura di) - Il riscaldamento del pianeta. Cambiamenti climatici dalla scala globale alla scala locale. Franco Angeli editore, Milano 2005.
Face to face lessons, practical exercises, didactical videos, experts seminars, reading and interpretation of topographic and thematic maps, didactical excursions.
Readiness to offer individual assistance also in a foreign language to incoming students: English
Availability of supporting material and bibliographic references also in a foreign language:
A. Goudie - The nature of the environment. 4th edition, Wiley-Blackwell, 2001.
Readiness to accept examination of incoming students also in a foreign language: English