Marketing of ecosystem services

Course: Cross-border environmental cooperation

Structural unit: heohrafichnyi fakultet

Title
Marketing of ecosystem services
Code
ОК 15
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
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 problems of ecosystem protection and avoidance degradation of their services. 2. To be able to analyze the negative consequences of unregulated economy human activity from the standpoint of a geographical approach to ecosystem assessment services 3. To know the main theoretical provisions of the concept of ecosystem services, options their classification and evaluation methods for the purpose of further monetization. 4. To know the main aspects of the classification of ecosystem services according to the UN report "Evaluation of ecosystems at the turn of the millennium" (Millennium Ecosystem Assessment). 5. Possess the skills of conducting scientific and applied research on evaluation ecosystem services, as well as the use of innovative technologies in the process monetization and marketing of ecosystem services.
Course content
This educational discipline dedicated to the study of the main provisions of the concept of ecosystem services (ES), their classifications according to various characteristics and assessment methods important for substantiation different options for using the territory. Discipline "Marketing of ecosystems services" is aimed at deepening theoretical and applied knowledge about marketing of ecosystem services, necessary for assessing the extent of damage society as a result of the degradation of natural ecosystems, the formation of masters accumulation of special professional, social and personal competencies knowledge about the possibility of critical thinking, analysis and synthesis, ability ability to search, process and analyze information from various sources identify, formulate and solve numerous problems in the process application of acquired knowledge in practice. Separate components of the discipline are the study of: concepts of "natural capital" and "ecosystem services"; criteria for dividing EP into supply and regulatory cultural and supportive; principles and relationships of ecosystem services with protection and reproduction of natural resources; causes of degradation and the largest threats to the quality of ecosystem services; methods of monetary and non-monetary assessment of EP; mechanisms of inclusion of ecosystem products and services in the economic system relations 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 process of EP assessment, the ability to apply quantitative and qualitative methods of research on the formation of payments for various types of EP, ability independently research, analyze changes in concepts related to inclusion ecosystem products and services into the system of economic relations.
Recommended or required reading and other learning resources/tools
1. Василюк О., Ільмінська Л. Екосистемні послуги. Огляд. БО «БФ «Фонд захисту біорізноманіття України», 2020. 84 с. 2. Гавадзин Н.О., Мельничук І.В. Удосконалення інструментарію здійснення функцій екосистемних послуг. Економіка природокористування та охорони навколишнього середовища. 2020. Вип. 41. С. 215-219. https://doi.org/10.32843/infrastruct41-35 3. Гавриленко О.П., Циганок Є.Ю. Деградація екосистемних послуг природоохоронних територій в урбанізованих зонах. Вісник Київського національного університету імені Тараса Шевченка. Географія. 2018. No 4(73). С. 10-14. http://doi.org/10.17721/1728-2721.2019.73.2 4. Гавриленко О.П. Екологія з основами геоекології: підручник. Riga: LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing, 2018. 462 с. 5. Гавриленко О.П. Геоекологія і природокористування: монографія. Київ: Видавець Бихун В.Ю., 2018. 393 с.
Planned learning activities and teaching methods
practical occupation, analytical report, discussion, solution specific tasks and situations
Assessment methods and criteria
implementation creative analytical works, presentation, discourse, test
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