28238 - Integrated Management of Coastal Areas

Academic Year 2017/2018

  • Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
  • Campus: Ravenna
  • Corso: Second cycle degree programme (LM) in Environmental Assessment and Management (cod. 8418)

Learning outcomes

The course provides knowledge to understand the morphodynamic processes effective in the formation and evolution of coastal zones and continental shelves. Within the limits set by natural dynamics, Integrated coastal zone management aims to balance environmental, economic and social objectives.

Course contents

Intewgrated coastal zone management includes the interdisciplinary study of the processes that shape present coastal zones and continental shelf and their evolution through space and time. The main morphodynamic processes leading to the present setting of siliciclastic and carbonate systems will be studied together with a sequence stratigraphic approach, to understand long term and Quaternary evolution. The course will introduce to protection principles against coastal risks, because of the huge concentration of human activities. ICZM aims to provide the key criteria for defining sustainability in coastal zone development. The course provides knowledge on sediment textures and structures. Clastic sediments and grain size analysis. Sedimentologic interpretation of frequency distributions. Study of marine depositional systems by means of the description of main sedimetary processes: physical processes (sediment movement, frictional forces and gravity-driven mass displacement); chemical processes (precipitation, authigenesis); Biological processes. Relationships between sediments and dynamics and chemistry of the seawater.

Readings/Bibliography

Coastal Engineering Manual
EM 1110-2-1100 http://chl.erdc.usace.army.mil/chl.aspx?p=s&a=Publications;8

E. Pranzini. La forma delle coste: Zanichelli, Bologna, 2004.

R.W.G. Carter and C.D. Woodroof. Coastal evolution. Late Quaternary shoreline morphodynamics. Cambridge University Press.

Waves, tides and shallow-water processes

Open University Oceanography Course Team,

ISBN: 978-0-08-036372-1, 1999.

Teaching methods

Classes, seminars, practical exercises.

Assessment methods

Oral examination. The learning assessment aims at complete and balanced evaluation of the degree of achievement of the objectives defined in the learning outcomes.

Teaching tools

Lectures with power point presentations, parctical exercises on grain size distribution, practices in GIS software.

Office hours

See the website of Rossella Capozzi