Sustainable land management and global trends

This subject is inter-connected with subjects on Bachelor study program: Soil science, Forest soils
and Land Degradation. During the course, students are introduced to global trends in land
degradation, through synergies with climate change and biodiversity and international conventions
and agreements relevant to land resources. Particular emphasis is put on condition of land resources
of the region, and the most important land degradation drivers, where floods, droughts and wildfires
are among the most important ones. Subject also elaborates land use systems, modern approaches
and techniques for the sustainable land management in order to prevent land degradation.

The learning outcome is the knowledge needed to improve land management by introducing new
approaches and technologies, which implementation will contribute to the prevention, conservation
and sustainability of natural resources, where soils play an important role.

Global trends and land degradation; International conventions and agreements; The UNCCD
Convention; The UNFCCC Convention; UNCBD Convention; Synergy between international
conventions and significance for land/soil; State of Land Resources of RS (BiH); The most important
factors of land degradation in RS (BiH); Possibility of prevention of land degradation (floods, fires,
drought); Approaches to Sustainable Land Management; Techniques in Sustainable Land
Management; WOCAT; Land PKS; Land Degradation Neutrality.

1. Kapović Solomun, M., Barger, N., Keesstra, S., Cerda, A., Marković, M. 2018. Assessing land condition as a first step to achieving Land Degradation Neutrality: A case study of the Republic of Srpska, Environmental Science and Policy 90 (2018), 19-27.

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2. Kapović Solomun, M. (2018): Program for achieving neutrality of land degradation in Republika Srpska, Banja Luka.

3. Marković, M., Brujić, J. 2017. Overview of the natural resource management in Bosnia and Herzegovina. In: Dragovic, N., Ristic, R., Pülzl, H., Wolfslehner, B. (Eds.), Natural Resource Management in Southeast Europe: Forest, Soil and Water. UNEP, 2017: Akcioni Program za borbu protiv degradacije zemljišta i ublažavanja posljedica suše u BiH, 2017

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4. UNDP, (2016): The third national and second biennial report in accordance with the UN Convention on Climate Change.

Test 1.
Test 2.
Final exam.

Lectures, exercises, field work and consultations. Seminar work.