Unit PEDOLOGY AND CHEMISTRY OF THE AGRO-ECOSYSTEM
- Course
- Sustainable agriculture
- Study-unit Code
- A002178
- Curriculum
- In all curricula
- Teacher
- Alberto Agnelli
- Teachers
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- Alberto Agnelli
- Giovanni Gigliotti (Codocenza)
- Hours
- 54 ore - Alberto Agnelli
- 27 ore (Codocenza) - Giovanni Gigliotti
- CFU
- 9
- Course Regulation
- Coorte 2021
- Offered
- 2021/22
- Learning activities
- Caratterizzante
- Area
- Discipline della fertilità e conservazione del suolo
- Academic discipline
- AGR/14
- Type of study-unit
- Obbligatorio (Required)
- Type of learning activities
- Attività formativa monodisciplinare
- Language of instruction
- Italian
- Contents
- Pedology:
Basic knowledge on the fundamental processes of soil genesis, the relationships between soil and environmental factors, the study of the
soil in the field.
Environmental and Agricultural Chemistry:
Soil fertilization: chemical and biofertilizers; the agronomical use of biomasses from waste and byproducts; Animal manures; Sewage sludge; Composting and anaerobic digestion; Fate and behavior of pesticides in the environment. - Reference texts
- Pedology:
Slides of the lectures
Certini G. e Ugolini F.C. Basi di Pedologia. Edagricole
Dazzi C. - Fondamenti di pedologia. Ed. Le Penseur
Nyle C. Brady e Ray R. Weil - Nature and properties of soils. Prentice Hall. USA
Environmental and Agricultural Chemistry:
Slides of the lectures
Sequi, Ciavatta, Miano. Fondamenti di Chimica del Suolo. Patron Editore.
Gennari e Trevisan: Agrofarmaci, conoscenze per un uso sostenibile Perdisa Editore 2008
Vismara et al. Biogas da agrozootecnia e agroindustria. Flaccovio Editore.
Italian and UE legislation for fertilizers and pesticides - Educational objectives
- Pedology:
The course takes into consideration the basic elements which constitute the soil resource and its functioning. The main objective is to provide the
students with all the elements to manage the soil in a sustainable way. The main acquired knowledge will be: factors of soil formation, chemical
and physical alteration of minerals, role of soil biota, soil organic matter cycle, pedogenetic processes, soil degradation processes.
At the end of the course the students should be able to recognize a soil type, and to interpret the morphological and analytical information useful to evaluate the soil quality and the environmental sustainability of a given soil use.
Environmental and Agricultural Chemistry:
To know the impact of fertilisers and pesticides on the soil system
To know the impact of fertilisers and pesticides on the water system
To know the rules for pesticides utilisation
To know the possible use of waste-deriving fertilisers
To know the impact of waste-deriving fertilisers on the soil system
To know the impact of sewage sludge on the soil system
To calculate the Predicted environmental concentrations (PEC) of pesticides in soil, surface water and groundwater. - Prerequisites
- General and Organic Chemistry, and Soil Chemistry
- Teaching methods
- Lessons in the classroom on all the topics of the course
Practical training in the field (opening of soil profiles, soil description, interpretation of the morphological data)
Laboratory practices
Seminars - Other information
- Attending the lessons is optional, but strongly advised.
Lesson will be held at the Department of Agricultural, Food and Environmental Sciences, Borgo XX Giugno 74, Perugia.
Other info at http://dsa3.unipg.it - Learning verification modality
- The learning verification will be carried out by means of an oral examination to be held on the dates available in the Examination
Calendar published in the DSA3 website (http://dsa3.unipg.it).
For information on support service for students with disabilities and/or DSA visit the pagehttp://www.unipg.it/disabilita-e-dsa - Extended program
- Pedology:
Role of the soil in the natural and anthropic environment; Name and description of the soil horizons; Factors of soil formation; Physical and chemical weathering; alteration and evolution of the soils; proton-donors theory. Soil physical properties (texture, structure and porosity), air and water in soil; Soil mineralogy; Characteristics and dynamic of the soil organic matter; Principal pedogenetic processes; Soil degradation processes; Soil and climate change.
Environmental and Agricultural Chemistry:
Soil fertility and fertilizers; Soil organic amendment: the rule, the production, the quality and the risk assessment. Composting of urban and agricultural wastes. Biogas production and the use in the agriculture of digestate. The integrated anaerobic/aerobic treatment of waste. The agricultural use of sewage sludge; Agricultural use of animal manures: treatment and management.
Risk assessment for surface water and groundwater due to the use of pesticides. The behavior of pesticide in the soil.
Practices: Agronomical and environmental quality parameters of fertilizers; PEC soil, PEC surface water and PEC groundwater determinations.