Watershed Managment and Project Planning

Course objectives: this course is initiated to upgrade students’ ability for better understand and practices which ensure the most adoptable watershed management options and project planning.

Learning outcomes: after successful completion of the course, students will be able to develop water resources development strategies for watershed management and project planning

Course description: The structure and function of watershed ecosystems with emphasis on the ecosystem and geomorphic processes shaping watersheds, measuring ecosystem function in watersheds, and measurement of positive and/or negative changes in ecosystems; processes shaping the structure and functioning of ecosystems and watersheds, their responses to natural and anthropogenic change and recovery to these disturbances; comparison of different ecosystems to watershed responses to anthropogenic changes and collect data from selected field sites to explore the relationship among ecosystem processes and changing climate (or other disturbances); the importance of proper ecologic functioning to the maintenance of healthy watershed systems; concept and planning of watershed management, characteristics of watershed, methods of watershed management, project planning, steps to a successful project, project planning for watershed