Environmental Monitoring Techniques

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Objectives

The course is composed of 3 main blocks oriented towards the basic knowledge of theory and techniques of environmental protection related to water quality of natural sistems (block 1), urban water cicle (block 2) and solid waste management (block 3).

It is intended that students acquire general concepts of waters (rivers, lakes, reservoirs and subterranean). Learn water sampling techniques and parameters for analyses of water quality. Draw evaluation plans and monitoring of water quality under national and EEC legislation (1). The knowledge of urban water cycle components, their objectives and management practices in order to provide a safe water service and guarantee the environmental protection (2).

Basic training in the fields of Solid Waste Management (SWM), required in terms of citizenship, as professsionals but indispensable to those who occupy positions of future leadership and management positions in public/private sectors especially in Nature- Environment area (3).

Program

Block 1:

General concepts of water quality of natural systems. Water quality regulation under EEC and national legislation. Physico-chemical and microbiological parameters. Ecological tracers of water quality. Anthropogenic activities and water quality. Networks and monitoring programs.

Block 2:

Components of Water and Wastewater systems. Water distribution systems: Reservoirs and their functions in water distribution network and legal requirements. Wastewater systems. Goals of a wastewater service. Treatment, composition, objectives of each process of treatment/discharge. Water reuse and bathing water quality.

Block 3:

The Environment in the Treaty on EU. Politics and EU legislation (Solid Waste Management). Waste management - main types. Equipments. Waste Production, treatment, valorization and deposition. European List of Waste types. European, national and regional legislation on Landfill. Valorization/Recycling of main types of waste. Waste management of animal by-products.

Teaching Methodologies

The main methods of teaching are the explanation and exposition of the theoretical foundations of the previous syllabus of each block of the course that considers its multiple structuring elements, using the broadest possible range of teaching resources, including those offered by new communication technologies, information and research, and develop students' research skills, reasoning, imagination, sensitivity to the essence of the theme studied and critical and innovative to the formulation of a proposal for new solutions to some of the issues studied.

Bibliography

BARTRAM, J. & BALLANCE, R. (Eds.). 1996. Water Quality Monitoring, 2nd. Ed., UNEP/WHO, E & FN Spon, 383 pp.

BRASSINGTON, R., 1998. Field Hydrogeology. J. W. & Sons. NY

CHAPMAN, D. (Ed.). 1996. Water Quality Assessments, 2nd. Ed., UNEP/WHO, E & FN Spon, 626 pp.

SAWYER, C. & McCarty, P. 1978. Chemistry for Environmental Eng., 3rd. Ed., McGraw-Hill Int. Ed., 532 pp.

SPELLMAN, F.R. 2008. The Science of Water, CRC Press, 422 pp.

DL n.º 306/07, de 27/8

DR n.º 23/95, de 23/8

DL152/97, de 19/6

DL 135/2009, de 3/6

DLR n.º 18/2009/A, de 19/10

“Gestão de Resíduos”; Martinho, M. G. e M. G. Gonçalves; Universidade Aberta. 1999.

Resíduos (Legislação e Jurisprudência) – Colecção Ambiente – c/ Cd-ROM (2008) ;Porto Editora; Autor: RMV &

Associados Resíduos (Legislação e Jurisprudência) – Colecção Ambiente – c/ Cd-ROM (2008)

“Resíduos Sólidos e Urbanos – Princípios e Processos”; Levy Quinhones e Artur Cabeças; Associação das Empresas Portuguesas para o Sector do Ambiente. 2006.

Code

0105785

ECTS Credits

6

Classes

  • Teóricas - 30 hours
  • Teórico-Práticas - 30 hours