Sustainable mining and the environment
Mining activities are beneficial to every economy however it has other negative impacts on the social, economic, and environmental systems. This course examines the social, economic, and environmental issues related to mining in general. This will help students to appreciate the importance of sustainable mining. They will learn about some of the ways to make mining more sustainable and the link between mining and sustainable development goals. Some of the courses are the origin and history of mining, exploration, distribution, and production processes of oil, gas, and coal, metal mining, environmental impacts of mining, sustainable mining using GIS and remote sensing applications, sustainable livelihoods and mining and corporate responsibilities in protecting the environment. The course will improve students’ horizons on mining and its relation to the environment and appreciate the need to adopt positive and sustainable environmental practices within the sector.
Applications of GIS
This course is designed to help students apply various concepts of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) to other fields of study. Students will broaden their horizons on the various uses and applications of GIS. The course will also introduce students to the digitization of vector data from images including points, lines, and polygons, and the design of a basic and learn diverse ways to use symbology to enhance the appearance of vector data. Students will learn how to create buffers for lines, points, and polygons, do proximity analysis, calculate distances, perform basic spatial statistics, and network analysis. They will also learn how to perform spatial interpolation.