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Course code: RSSS20096f12
Semester: 2012/2013 summer
Name: Soil Water Menagement
Major: Environmental Protection
Study Type: second cycle
Course type: optional
Study Semester: 1
ECTS points: 2
Hours (Lectures / Tutorials / Other): 15 / 15 / 0
Lecturer: dr hab. Jarosław Kaszubkiewicz, dr hab. Adam Bogacz
Language of instruction: Polish


Learning outcomes: Student achieve theoretical and practical knowledge concerned soil water retention and soil water balances. During soil water management lectures the problems of organic soil degradation and protection with sustainable agriculture will be emphasized. Lectures and practical exercises will enable the students to treat soil water management as a impotent element of natural as well as agricultural environment.

Competences: After course completing students will be enable to individually conduct and supervise of soil water management in sustainable agricultural production.

Prerequisites: Basic of soil science and physics.

Course content: Basis of soil water physic, soil sampling method to measurement soil physical parameters, soil water retention, soil structure and specific porosity, water balances, genesis and water management in organic soil.

Recommended literature: 1. Giedrojć B. Gleboznawstwo melioracyjne z elementami torfoznawstwa. Przewodnik do ćwiczeń dla studentów. Wydawnictwo Akademii Rolniczej we Wrocławiu 1980.
2. Maksimow A. Torf i jego użytkowanie w rolnictwie. PWRiL 1965
3. Dzieżyc J.: Rolnictwo w warunkach nawadniania. PWRiL 1974
4. Trybała M.: Zagadnienia gospodarki wodnej w rolnictwie. PWRiL 1980
5. Marcinek J., Święcicki. Gleboznawstwo Melioracyjne. PWRiL 1990
6. Ilnicki P. Torfowiska i torf. Wydawnictwo Akademii Rolniczej w Poznaniu. 2002


Assessment methods: Obligatory pass practices after 1 (8) semester. Minimum of knowledge required to pass 70%.

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