The bases of geoecology

Course: Geomorphology and Environmental Tourism

Structural unit: heohrafichnyi fakultet

Title
The bases of geoecology
Code
ОК 16
Module type
Обов’язкова дисципліна для ОП
Educational cycle
First
Year of study when the component is delivered
2021/2022
Semester/trimester when the component is delivered
3 Semester
Number of ECTS credits allocated
4
Learning outcomes
P03. Explain the features of the geographical space organization depending on the relief, modern and ancient geomorphogenesis of the territory. P05. Collect, process and analyze information in the field of geographical sciences, in particular to solve problems of geomorphology, palaeogeography and naturally cognitive tourism. P06. Use information technologies, cartographic and geoinformation models in the study of processes of relief formation and development, organization and functioning of field of the naturally cognitive tourism. P07. Determine the main characteristics, processes, history and composition of the landscape sphere in general and geomorphosystems in particular. P09. Analyze the composition and structure of natural- and sociospheres, which are the part of the subject area of geomorphology and naturally cognitive tourism at different spatial and temporal levels.
Form of study
Full-time form
Prerequisites and co-requisites
1. Successful mastering of the disciplines "Biogeography", "Geomorphology", "Cartography". 2. To be able to establish the nature of relationships between the causes, consequences and ways of solving geoecological problems. 3. To be able to analyze the negative consequences of unregulated human economic activity from the standpoint of a geoecological approach to environmental protection problems. 4. To know the main theoretical principles of modern geoecology, the history of the formation of this science, its structure and regularities of the functioning of the natural environment. 5. To know modern quantitative and qualitative methods of geoecological research, methods of research of natural and transformed landscapes, determination of purity standards of components of the natural environment, organization of geoecological monitoring, etc.
Course content
This educational discipline is dedicated to the study of general geoecological problems and the peculiarities of the functioning of geoecosystems that are affected by economic and other human activities, the causes of their occurrence, the principles and modern methods used to solve them, as well as the formation of skills and abilities to solve the main geoecological problems in the plane subject area of ​​knowledge of natural geography. The discipline "Fundamentals of Geoecology" is aimed at deepening theoretical geoecological knowledge, forming special professional, social and personal competencies in students, accumulating knowledge about the possibility of critical thinking, analysis and synthesis, the ability to search, process and analyze information from various sources, the ability to determine, formulate and solve problems in the field of natural geography and geoecology.
Recommended or required reading and other learning resources/tools
1 . Гродзинський М.Д. Ландшафтна екологія: Підручник. – К.: Знання, 2013. - 424 с.2. Гродзинський М.Д. Пізнання ландшафту: місце і простір / У 2-х т. – Київ, 2005. – Т.1. - 431 с., Т.2 - 503 с. 3. Гродзинський М.Д. Ландшафтна екологія: підручник. Київ : Знання, 2014. 550 с. 4. Джигирей В.С. Екологія та охорона навколишнього природного середовища: навч. посіб. 4-те вид., випр. і доп. Київ : Знання, 2006. 319 с. 5. Круглов І.С. Трансдисциплінарна геоекологія - Львів: ЛНУ ім І Франка, 2020. - 292 с. 6. Добровольський В.В. Екологічні знання: навч. посіб. Київ : ВД «Професіонал», 2005. 304 с. 7. Шищенко П.Г., Гавриленко О.П., Муніч Н.В. Геоекологія: теоретичні та практичні аспекти: монографія. Київ : Альтерпрес, 2014. 468 с. 8. Шищенко П.Г., Гавриленко О.П. Геоекологія: Термінологічно-тлумачний словник. Київ : ПП «ДІРЕКТ ЛАЙН», 2016. 412 с. 9. Шищенко П.Г., Гавриленко О.П. Геоекологія України: підручник. Київ : ДП «Прінт Сервіс», 2017. 494 с.
Planned learning activities and teaching methods
Lecture, practical session, analytical work
Assessment methods and criteria
Oral survey, blitz survey, tests, presentations, discourse
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