Methods of expert assessment of the environment

Course: TRANSBORDER ENVIRONMENTAL COOPERATION

Structural unit: heohrafichnyi fakultet

Title
Methods of expert assessment of the environment
Code
ОК 36
Module type
Обов’язкова дисципліна для ОП
Educational cycle
First
Year of study when the component is delivered
2022/2023
Semester/trimester when the component is delivered
6 Semester
Number of ECTS credits allocated
3
Learning outcomes
1. Apply models, methods and natural and social data sciences, information technologies etc. when studying formation and development of objects and processes geographic envelope (PRN 9). 2. Own a state and in foreign languages (PRN 11). 3. Act in accordance with social principles responsibility and civic consciousness (PRN 16). 4. Manage your studies with for the purpose of self-realization in professional activity (PRN 17).
Form of study
Full-time form
Prerequisites and co-requisites
1. Successful mastering of the disciplines "Biogeography", "Meteorology", "Soil Science", "Geology", "Hydrology and Oceanology", "Geomorphology", "Cartography", "Fundamentals of geoecology", "Physical geography of continents and oceans", "Landscape studies". 2. To be able to establish the nature of relationships between the causes of occurrence, consequences and ways of solving environmental problems. 3. To be able to analyze the negative consequences of unregulated human activity with positions of the geoecological approach to the expert assessment of the environment. 4. To know the signs of the quality of the environment as a system, the methodology of system analysis and general methods and models of system analysis of environmental expert assessment. 5. To know modern quantitative and qualitative methods of environmental expert assessment, the basics environmental forecasting and modeling, monitoring indicator
Course content
This academic discipline is devoted to the study of methods of expert assessment of the environment, the impact on the environment of various environmental factors and economic activity of man, the essence the concepts of "environmental impact assessment" and "strategic environmental assessment", as well as the formation of skills and abilities to solve current problems in the field of geoecology, principles and modern methods used to solve them. The discipline "Methods of expert assessment of the environment" is aimed at deepening theoretical geoecological knowledge, the formation of special professional, social and personal competencies in students, the accumulation of knowledge regarding the possibility of critical thinking, analysis and synthesis, the ability to search, process and analyze information from various sources, the ability to identify, formulate and solve problems in the field of environmental expert assessment. Separate components discipline is the study of quantitative methods measuring the environmental risk of the planned production activity; ways development of target programs for management of environmental protection processes on problem areas; principles of rational use and protection components of the environment from the influence of adverse anthropogenic and man-made factors factors; methods of researching the consequences of adverse changes in the environment and ways to prevent them. The functional block of the discipline involves mastering the following components, such as the ability to apply basic knowledge of natural sciences and of information technologies in the field of expert assessment of the environment, ability apply quantitative and qualitative methods of comprehensive environmental assessment the dangers of industrial facilities, the ability to independently investigate and analyze spatio-temporal changes of the environment for the purposes of its expert assessment.
Recommended or required reading and other learning resources/tools
1. Алексєєва Є. Оцінка впливу на довкілля: можливості для громадськості: посіб. [за ред. О. Кравченко]. Львів : Компанія «Манускрипт», 2017. 36 с. 2. Алексєєва Є., Вихрист С., Єндрошка Є., Мікуліч Н., Скрильніков Д., Шимкус М. Оцінка впливу на довкілля: Міжнародні стандарти, досвід інших країн і передумови до запровадження нової моделі оцінки впливу на довкілля в Україні та її основні елементи. Київ, 2018. 141 с. 3. Алексєєва Є. Популярний коментар до Закону України «Про оцінку впливу на довкілля» [за ред. О. Кравченко]. Львів : Компанія «Манускрипт», 2018. 60 с. 4. Гавриленко О.П. Екологія з основами геоекології: підручник. Riga : LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing, 2018. 462 с. 5. Гродзинський М.Д. Ландшафтна екологія: підручник. Київ : Знання, 2014. 550 с. 6. Добровольський В.В. Екологічні знання: навч. посіб. Київ : ВД «Професіонал», 2005. 304 с. 7. Олійник Я.Б., Шищенко П.Г., Гавриленко О.П. Основи екології: підручник. Київ : Знання, 2012. 560 с.
Planned learning activities and teaching methods
lecture, seminar class, analytical work
Assessment methods and criteria
Oral survey, survey blitz, performance of analytical works, tests, presentation, discus, tests, survey, performance of creative analytical works, presentation of performance of creative analytical calculation works, exam
Language of instruction
Ukrainian

Lecturers

This discipline is taught by the following teachers

Olena Petrivna Havrylenko
Department of Physical Geography and Geoecology
heohrafichnyi fakultet

Departments

The following departments are involved in teaching the above discipline

Department of Physical Geography and Geoecology
heohrafichnyi fakultet