Ecological Engineering and Restoration (ERC Track)

Sustainable development, ERC unit, green, blue, and turquoise corridors.

The aim is to present the regulatory and technical frameworks for integrating environmental considerations into projects, plans, and programs. The “Avoid, Reduce, Offset” approach—including its challenges and the stakeholders involved—will be presented, discussed, and illustrated. The green and blue infrastructure networks and their interface with the turquoise infrastructure network will be analyzed as tools for improving biodiversity conservation in land management and planning operations.
Learners will be expected to take a step back and critically evaluate the methods and expertise used to apply this ERC sequence in various fields related to plans, developments, and programs that have an impact on the environment.

A field visit provides an opportunity to meet with stakeholders, learn about the ERC initiatives being implemented, and draw conclusions and identify future directions.

The applications will focus on the turquoise framework linking the Biodiversity Act and the Water Act dossier, as well as on the ERC implementation of the land-use planning dossier.

The EU finally offers learners a genuine critical analysis of skills and the development of innovative and inclusive solutions.

- Identify the ecological and hydrological processes at work in watersheds and the associated challenges
- Understand and discuss the concepts of green, blue, and turquoise infrastructure, as well as their variations and associated challenges
- Understand an ERC sequence, its various stages, the principles guiding its development, the stakeholders involved, and the regulations governing its implementation
- Identify, in the field, the specific characteristics of the terrain that lead to ecological and hydrological discontinuities and malfunctions at various scales, and propose the implementation of the ERC sequence in these areas
- Identify sources of documentation related to these issues, assessments, and solutions
- Present the study, its context, the challenges, and the proposed solutions.

M1 S2 Ecological Restoration (ecology, hydrology, morphology, connectivity, restoration) and M2 S3 River Modeling (opt

Continuous assessment based on an oral or written presentation by a small project team of 3 or 4 students.