Principles and Measures to Prevent Drought and Flooding
Learn principles and measures to implement an effective rainwater management
that improves your area or property, and at the same time, help change climate change!
This self-paced online course – taught by Thomas Lüdert, lead engineer for the water retention landscapes developed at the Tamera community and in many other places in southern Portugal – will provide you with a solid grounding in the basic principles of rainwater management and will instruct you on how to apply practical measures effective against both drought and flooding.
You will therefore become able to implement rainwater management measures in your own area, bringing benefits not only for the land on which you work, but also at a larger scale by helping restore water cycles and thereby helping change climate change.
The Rainwater Management course includes more than 3.5 hours of lessons in 44 short videos with theoretical explanation and on-location demonstration of principles and measures, homework assignments, a comprehensive 12-page inventory checklist that you can apply to your own area and downloadable study booklets for each of the course’s seven sections (totalling more than 100 pages of original text and image content). Your questions about course content will be answered directly by the teaching team. The course may be started at any time and followed at your own pace, and it requires a minimum of about 10 to 20 hours of study time to complete.
Course Details
The Rainwater Management online course is aimed at all people with a serious interest in water management, landscape restoration and regenerative land use, especially those engaged in practical water-management issues on public or private lands.
After enrolling on this course, you will be able to
✔ view more than 3.5 hours of video lessons made exclusively for the course, covering both
theoretical and practical aspects of rainwater management on rural lands
✔ view presentations of six case-study projects and owner/manager interviews
✔ pose written questions about course material and get them answered personally by the course
teaching team
✔ download PDF text and image booklets detailing the key study material from each of the
course’s seven sections
✔ download a detailed inventory checklist to help plan measures for your own area
✔ submit and share course homework assignments
Course structure
The Rainwater Management course comprises the following seven sections:
- Course Introduction
- Natural Water Cycles: Disruption and Restoration
- Basic Planning: Inventory
- Basic Rainwater Retention Measures
- Implementation of Basic Measures
- Rainwater Retention Basins (Lakes)
- Master Planning
Each section includes several short video lessons, a homework assignment and a PDF booklet detailing all the key content. The course also features video presentations of six different case-study properties from southern Portugal.
Video lessons include both theoretical explanation of rainwater management principles and on-location demonstration of practical measures as applied on the different case-study properties.
Time Commitment
You may start this self-paced course at any time and complete it in your own time at your own speed. A minimum of 10 to 20 hours of study time is required to complete the course.
Study time includes
● viewing the video lessons (3.5+ hours),
● reviewing the key-content PDF documents (3+ hours),
● accessing the optional further study material and
● completing the homework assignments (optional but strongly recommended, 4+ hours).
Language
The course is taught in English, and all video lessons may be viewed with English subtitles. We also offer a German version of the course (with German subtitles and text) and hope to offer a Portuguese version in the near future.
Preview of course material
See some examples of our course lections.
1.1 “Welcome to the Course” | 1.2 “Overview of the Course” | 4.4 “Basic Measures: Terraces” | 6.6 “Advanced Measures: Lake Building Examples”
Course Teachers
Principle instructor:
Thomas Lüdert is a trained landscape gardener and arborist and ran successful natural landscaping businesses in Germany between 1982 and 2000. He then moved to Portugal and became a co- worker of the Tamera community, where he coordinated the community’s first large reforestation project and the installation of much of its infrastructure. From 2007 to 2012, he was the lead engineer in the construction of Tamera’s internationally-renowned water retention landscape. Still a Tamera member and co-worker, Thomas currently runs the independent company Agualands (Aguapaisagens Lda.), which has designed and implemented water landscapes on several properties throughout southern Portugal.
Guest instructors:
Bernd Müller, specialist and consultant in water landscaping and regenerative land use with over 30 years’ experience in rural-property management in Spain and Portugal, led Tamera’s ecology department for many years. Currently, he lives on and manages a 72-ha property nearby.
Tosca & Marco Damme , are self-taught land revitalizers active on their rural property in southern
Portugal.
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https://www.montecruz-portugal.net/
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCPAAcgmGNDLJMuPT5qkaPnQ
Course facilitator:
Jeff Anderson holds a bachelor’s degree in ecological science from the University of Edinburgh. Since 2016, his work has been focused on ecological and forest restoration.
He lives near Cercal do Alentejo in southern Portugal
Course Fee
Full fee (advertised price on external course platform): €179.99.
A reduced fee of €159.99 is available to all contact us (see contact form below). Further reductions/scholarships may also be available in specific cases on request.
All stated fees include VAT.
Please note that the Rainwater Management course does not offer direct advice or consultation on participants’ specific, own projects. We will offer the possibility of private consultations to students who complete this foundational course, as well as the opportunity to participate in more advanced follow-up courses.
Course Plattform
You may preview the Udemy online course platform using this link.
You may also enrol on the course directly via this link (without needing to contact us), but you will then need to pay the full price as listed on the platform. Therefore, we highly recommend using the contact form below so that we can send you a discount coupon.
If for any reason you still prefer to enrol on the course directly without taking advantage of our discount coupon, please enrol using the referral link above and try to do so within 24 hours after first using the link (otherwise we will only receive one-third of the course fee: the Udemy platform will keep two-thirds of the fee for any enrolments made after 24 hours of using the referral link).
All payments, with or without a discount coupon, are made via the Udemy platform.
Get a reduction and course link!
To get your 20€ reduction voucher and the course link, please complete the form below.
Alternatively, you may apply by email to education@agualands.com (please include the above details in the text of your email).