Nowadays Geoinformatics play an important role in monitoring and designing strategies for water resources sustainability. The course includes a student project implemented with GIS software (e.g. ArcGIS) in order to…
This course studies the application of economic theory to the management of the environmental and water resources. More specifically, the course discusses the role of economic theory in understanding and…
The aim of the course is the introduction to the concepts policy and strategy and their application for the development and governance of an efficient port system. The subjects of…
The course aims to highlight the relationship between a sustainable international trade, maritime transport, logistics and port location and their planning and management. Emphasis is given in the analysis of…
A port is a place that provides for the transfer of cargo and passengers to and from vessels. Also, it is an economic unit, a place that provides terminal services…
Overview of basic numerical methods for solving elliptic, parabolic and hyperbolic equations and relevant applications. Stability and accuracy analysis, numerical diffusion. Computational grids. Mathematical models of coastal circulation: shallow water…
The coastal zone (CZ) as a field of dynamic balances between anthropogenic and non-anthropogenic, biotic or abiotic, actions. Coastal processes of wave action, currents and geomorphological response. Coastal division into…
Introduction to port and coastal engineering, sea water wave theories, wave propagation and transformation processes (shoaling, refraction and breaking phenomena). Wave interaction with structures (wave runup, overtopping, reflection and diffraction…
Coastline as a geodynamic system. Types of waves, currents and transmission of wave energy to coastal rocks. Geological structure and coastal geomorphology. Coastline classification. Erosional and depositional coastal landforms. Parametrization…