INTEGRATED WATERSHED MANAGEMENT

1. <Introduction>
- Anthropocene: the Human Age. Opening lecture & round table discussion

2. <Climate & Humans>
- GIS lab: climate change & disasters
- GIS lab: landuse change & disasters
- GIS lab: Socio-economic development & land degradation (soil erosion, mitigation strategies)

3. <High-resolution topography>
- GIS lab: Open-access high-resolution topographic data databases
- GIS lab: Digital Terrain Models & topographic attributes in mountain areas
- GIS lab: Digital Terrain Models & topographic attributes in urbanized floodplains

4. <Earth surface dynamics analysis>
- GIS lab: Land use change & environmental criticalities in mountain areas (erosion, landslides, rainfall pattern of a catastrophic flood)
- GIS lab: Land use change & environmental criticalities in urbanized floodplains (drainage network dynamics, urbanization & floods)

5. <Hazards, Vulnerability, Risk>
- Hazards, Exposure, Vulnerability, Risk (landslide & floods)
- GIS lab: Hazards & Risk mapping
- GIS lab: Social vulnerability & Social Risk mapping
- Risk perception & communication (the role of social media - e.g. Facebook, Twitter)

6. <Think-tank lab experiment>
- Selected scientific articles group discussion
- Integrated Watershed Management "manifesto" (in a poster the class summarizes its final view on the main environmental and societal criticalities, including mitigation strategies, at watershed scale)