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Introduction to Soil Water & Vegetation Conservation for Watershed Management
This free online course from Medair provides an introduction to the holistic approach needed for conservation of soil, water and vegetation in watershed management, so that the overall resilience of the landscape and livelihoods of stakeholders are improved.
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What You Will Learn
Water is life, but water is becoming more and more a scarce resource in a lot of landscapes. This can be positively influenced with an integrated and holistic approach within a watershed.
In this free online course, you will learn:
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- How soil, water and vegetation are interrelated and interdependent
- Why we need to adapt to climate change
- How to determine a watershed, and the importance of a watershed, both for understanding the current situation and for implementing the right measures
- The measures to reduce the impact of floods and the impact of droughts
- The importance of healthy soil
- The importance of planting and maintaining useful and locally suited vegetation
