Restoring drastically disturbed land to an acceptable level of productivity and visual appearance has become a specialised and sophisticated branch of environmental science. In some cases whole ecosystems have to be recreated while in others the emphasis is on productive land use such as for farming and forestry. This unit is presented by means of several case histories which encompass a wide range of land degradation scenarios such as saline and acid sulphate soils, different types of mining and quarrying, industrial waste disposal and land destroyed by erosion. -- Course Website
Instructor: Dr Gavan McGrath
Prerequisites: EART2222 Geomorphology and Soils (formerly EART2222 Earth surface Processes and Soils) or EART2231 Earth Materials or EART2234 Earth Processes or ENVT2251 Environmental Hydrology
