Università Roma Tre

The course contains two teaching units: Environmental Geology and Environmental Geochemistry. 1) Environmental Geology – we live in an age of global environmental changes. To date, it is estimated that less than 10% of Earth's land surface is little or not affected by humans. In times when humankind dominates nature, gaining an understanding of the relationships between landscape and anthropogenic activities that shape it at an unprecedented speed is of paramount importance. This is especially true to achieve the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals and a land degradation neutral World by 2030. The aim of the Applied Geology unit is to provide students with theoretical foundations and technical/ applied skills in and geothematic mapping, mathematical modeling in GIS environment as well as solid surveying and mapping skills. Activities focus on analyzing the evolution of the landscape and the assessment of geo-environmental hazards, risks and anthropogenic impacts. The course aims to enable students to develop the ability to understand and analyze human-environment interactions, with particular attention to hillslope processes, phenomena of hillslope instability, soil erosion, watershed analysis and risk and impact mitigation. 2) Environmental Geochemistry – this unit aims to provide a critical knowledge of the main issues and problems relating to the abundance, distribution and mobility of chemical species in the environment (rocks, sediments, soils, waters, air, living beings). It aims also to provide technical-scientific knowledge on the characterization of the various environmental matrices, on the chemical-physical processes that characterize natural systems and on environmental contamination. These objectives are consistent with the educational objectives of the entire Degree Course. The expected learning outcomes are closely linked to the educational objectives. The students will know the composition and reactive properties of geological materials, in their various forms of aggregation (solids, liquids, solutions and gases) and will be able to recognize anthropic alterations on the chemistry of natural systems

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