Course Details

Watershed Conservation

Academic Year 2025/26

NSA015 course is part of 1 study plan

NPC-SIV Summer Semester 1st year

Course Guarantor

Institute

Language of instruction

Czech

Credits

3 credits

Semester

summer

Forms and criteria of assessment

graded course-unit credit

Offered to foreign students

Not to offer

Course on BUT site

Lecture

13 weeks, 2 hours/week, elective

Syllabus

  • 1.-2. Extreme hydrological phenomena in the watershed - flood threat, drought
  • 3.-4. Comprehensive design of environmentally sound adaptation measures in the catchment area
  • 5.-6. Design of line technical protection and retention measures
  • 7.-8. Design of area technical protection and retention measures, bench terraces, retention reservoir
  • 9.-10. Revitalization of hydrographic network and micro-network
  • 13. Systems of ecological stability of landscape and Land Consolidation in the context of watershed protection and organization.

Exercise

13 weeks, 1 hours/week, compulsory

Syllabus

  • 1. Digital and standard data, analysis of land cover and hydrographic network.
  • 2. Erosion analysis.
  • 3. Runoff analysis.
  • 4. Design of organizational measures.
  • 5. Design of linear biotechnical measures.
  • 6. Design of areal biotechnical measures.