School Of Natural SciencesWater in the LandscapeWestern Sydney University Unit Code: 300528.1
Discipline: AGRICULTURAL SCIENCE
Student Contribution Band: 2
Level: 2
Credit Points: 10
Equivalent Units
EY205A - Principles of Soil and Water Management
About this Unit
Many land and water use activities in the landscape result in hydrologic
changes that have environmental consequences and require appropriate
management strategies for sustaining water resources. Understanding of
these changes through hydrologic processes and risk assessment is
important to rural, urban and peri-urban settings.
In this unit, the hydrologic cycle and its different processes are explored in
detail and an understanding is developed of the interrelationships between
rainfall, runoff, vegetation, landuse, irrigation, erosion, water supply and
water quality parameters in a range of scales in landscape.
With this understanding of the hydrologic cycle and the processes, the
availability, demand and use of water at a range of scales and their
implications for environment is examined. This is to be achieved through
lecture inputs on specific topics, a catchment tour, water quantity and
quality analyses and a number of case studies in different settings.