A ONE-WEEK CRASH-COURSE ON NATURE-BASED SOLUTIONS AT SCUOLA SUPERIORE SANT’ANNA – PISA (ITALY)
Course dedicated to:
- PhD students;
- MSc students/post-graduate (no longer than 6 months since graduation);
- bachelor students.
The WAT-CHANGE Seasonal School aims at introducing the participants to the new growing area of nature-based solutions providing water-related ecosystem services.
In particular, we will deal with nature-based solutions for water supply, treatment of polluted water, flood risk mitigation measures, managed aquifer recharge, river restoration, constructed wetlands and sustainable drainage systems.
At the end of the course the students will have the knowledge and skills to understand impacts and functions of the main nature-based solutions for solving the most common water resources management problems and to start their design.
The course is based on 20 hours of interactive and cross-disciplinary learning from academia and the professional world along with hours dedicated to field work and performing chemical analyses. Two site visits will put in touch the students with real blue-infrastructures. In particular, we will visit:
- the Massaciuccoli wetland and the phytotreatment area for treating the nutrient-rich rural drainage;
- the ecohydrological infrastructures of the Val di Cornia area. This area has recently been recognized by UNESCO's Intergovernmental Hydrological Program as a site of global importance for ecohydrology.
During the field visits we will learn how to monitor and to sample surface water and groundwater.
A 4-hour workshop (Nature-based solutions and Managed Aquifer Recharge. Application, case studies and market perspectives) will allow showcasing technical solutions, along with the market and the regulatory perspective and the state of the application.
