Green infrastructure and geography of nature protection in Europe and Ukraine

Course: Cross-border environmental cooperation

Structural unit: heohrafichnyi fakultet

Title
Green infrastructure and geography of nature protection in Europe and Ukraine
Code
ОК 12
Module type
Обов’язкова дисципліна для ОП
Educational cycle
Second
Year of study when the component is delivered
2023/2024
Semester/trimester when the component is delivered
1 Semester
Number of ECTS credits allocated
4
Learning outcomes
nature-oriented concepts, closely related to green infrastructure, and importance connections between them Justify the meaning high value territory biodiversity (eg Natura protected areas 2000) as integral parts networks of green infrastructure in Europe and Ukraine. Communication: development of students of practical skills conducting opportunistic research and group solution of actual tasks with using the appropriate methods and techniques of obtaining, storage and implementation of the primary empirical data processing and their proper representation with the help of modern techniques means
Form of study
Full-time form
Prerequisites and co-requisites
1. Be able to establish the nature of relationships between the causes of occurrence, consequences and ways of solving environmental problems. 2. To be able to analyze the negative consequences of unregulated economy human activity from the standpoint of a geographical approach to green planning infrastructure and nature protection. 3. To know the basic theoretical principles of green infrastructure planning and nature protection, problems of functioning of green infrastructure in modern cities and communities of Europe and Ukraine. 4. To know the main aspects of the integration of elements of green infrastructure in nature protection network, methods of determining the availability of urban green spaces zones, basics of environmental monitoring organization, etc.
Course content
This educational discipline dedicated to the study of the main provisions of the European Green Strategy infrastructure (IS), ways of its integration into territorial planning and management, as well as the formation of skills and abilities to master modern research methods of JI in urban and rural areas and solving the main ones problems of nature protection. Discipline "Green infrastructure and geography nature protection of Europe and Ukraine" is aimed at deepening the theoretical and applied knowledge about the importance of nature conservation areas in planning and assessment of JI for the creation of a single ecological network of territories, formation of masters of special professional, social and personal competencies, accumulation of knowledge regarding the possibility of critical thinking, analysis and synthesis, the ability to search, process and analyze information from various sources, ability to identify, formulate and solve numerous problems in the process application of acquired knowledge in practice. Separate components of the discipline are the study of: criteria and mechanisms for detection of IP objects; methods of management of environmental protection processes in JI; principles of rational use and protection of EI components from exposure unfavorable anthropogenic and technogenic factors; methods of conducting study of the consequences of adverse effects on EI; Green strategies infrastructure adopted by the European Commission in 2013; design ЗI depending on the amount of benefits it can provide to society. 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 planning of the constituent components of CI, ability apply quantitative and qualitative methods of green infrastructure research, the ability to independently research, analyze changes in concepts related to green
Recommended or required reading and other learning resources/tools
1. Гавриленко О.П. Екологія з основами геоекології: підручник. Riga: LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing, 2018. 462 с. 2. Гавриленко О.П. Геоекологія і природокористування: монографія. Київ: Видавець Бихун В.Ю., 2018. 393 с. 3. Гродзинський М.Д. Ландшафтна екологія: підручник. Київ: Знання, 2014. 550 с. 4. Екомережа степової зони України: принципи створення, структура, елементи / ред. Д.В. Дубина, Я.І. Мовчан. Київ: LAT&K, 2013. 409 с. 5. Максименко Н.В., Бурченко С.В. Теоретичні основи стратегії зеленої інфраструктури: міжнародний досвід. Людина та довкілля. Проблеми неоекології. 2019. Вип. 31. С. 16-26. DOI: 0.26565/1992-4224-2019-31-02
Planned learning activities and teaching methods
seminary occupation, analytical wor
Assessment methods and criteria
tests, blitz poll, implementation creative analytical works, presentation, discourse, assessment
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