Environmental protection in an urban environment

Course: Landscape Design of the Urbanized Environment (Master)

Structural unit: Biology And Medicine Institute Science Educational Center

Title
Environmental protection in an urban environment
Code
Module type
Обов’язкова дисципліна для ОП
Educational cycle
Second
Year of study when the component is delivered
2022/2023
Semester/trimester when the component is delivered
1 Semester
Number of ECTS credits allocated
4
Learning outcomes
2. Organize and carry out work on urban monitoring and inventory of garden and park facilities, natural and cultural landscapes and compiling a cadastre of greenery. 7. Carry out effective management of garden and park facilities, natural and cultural landscapes, taking into account technological, legal, economic, environmental and other aspects. 11. To design territories of squares, highways and streets, pedestrian zones, lanes of linear objects, zones of country rest and tourism, forest parks, territories of hospital complexes and resorts, sanitary protection zones, reclamation tree plantations, rehabilitation of disturbed landscapes of technogenic territories. 13. Organize educational and cognitive activities of students. 15. Organize and carry out educational environmental activities among the population.
Form of study
Full-time form
Prerequisites and co-requisites
1. Know - the basics of the disciplines of the educational and professional program "Landscape Design and Landscaping" of the first (bachelor's) level of higher education (basics of plant morphology and taxonomy, phytocenology, ecology, florology, plant geography in regulatory, special disciplines and field practices taught in previous years of study). 2. Be able to - independently work with scientific and methodological literature, perform practical work, identify botanical objects in the amount specified normative and special disciplines taught in previous years of study. 3. Have basic skills in working with documents, materials and equipment used in the environmental laboratory, use keys to identify taxa of different ranks, plant identification and analysis of geobotanical data.
Course content
The course covers issues of environmental protection, environmental management and resource conservation in urban areas; forms a set of knowledge about the sources and manifestations of the current environmental crisis and ways to overcome it, the prospects for the interaction of economic, legal, technical, etc. measures; deepens the sense of responsibility for the environment, human awareness as a part of nature and sustainable development of nature and society. The course covers issues of international and domestic environmental legislation in the fields of environmental safety, environmental strategies, environmental management, outreach, sociophytology and protected sociology, introduces the issue of introduction of alien species and aims to acquire the ability to detect and timely apply measures to eliminate dangerous areas of nature in an urban environment.
Recommended or required reading and other learning resources/tools
1. Andrienko TL, Onishchenko VA, Klestov ML, Pryadko 0.I., Arap R.Ya. The system of categories of the nature reserve fund of Ukraine and the issues of its optimization. - Kyiv: Phytosocial Center, 2001.-60p. 2. Environmental security - the key to sustainable development of Ukraine. Studies in Ukrainian Studies / MM Musienko. - К.: Либідь, 2004. - С.294-313. 3. Law of Ukraine "On Environmental Protection" // Bulletin of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine (VVR). - 1991. - No 41. - P.546. 4. Law of Ukraine on the Nature Reserve Fund of Ukraine // Bulletin of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine. - 1992. - P. 502-504. 5. Green Paper of Ukraine / Ed. J.P. Grandpa. - К .: Альтерпрес, 2009. - 448 с
Planned learning activities and teaching methods
Lectures; practical work; individual work
Assessment methods and criteria
1. Test work 1 2. Test work 2 3. Evaluation of practical work 3. Presentations / reports Final assessment: in the form of an exam
Language of instruction
English

Lecturers

This discipline is taught by the following teachers

Oksana Vasylivna Tyshchenko
Department of Plant Biology
Biology And Medicine Institute Science Educational Center

Departments

The following departments are involved in teaching the above discipline

Department of Plant Biology
Biology And Medicine Institute Science Educational Center