Ecosystem and landscape services

Course: TRANSBORDER ENVIRONMENTAL COOPERATION

Structural unit: heohrafichnyi fakultet

Title
Ecosystem and landscape services
Code
ВБ 3.04.01
Module type
Вибіркова дисципліна для ОП
Educational cycle
First
Year of study when the component is delivered
2023/2024
Semester/trimester when the component is delivered
6 Semester
Number of ECTS credits allocated
3
Learning outcomes
1. Know and understand the main ones types of geographical activities, their division in in general and in particular in the industry cross-border ecological of cooperation (PR02). 2. Analyze geographic potential territory taking into account it landscape structure (PR04). 3. Know the goals of sustainability development and opportunities his professional field for their achievement, in that including in Ukraine during the implementation of programs and cross-border projects ecological of cooperation (PR010)
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 Millennium Ecosystem Assessment (MEA), The Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity" (TEEB), Common International Classification of Ecosystem Services" (CICES). 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 of ecosystem services.
Course content
This academic discipline is dedicated to study of the basic 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 "Ecosystem and landscape services" is aimed at deepening theoretical and applied knowledge about the concept of ecosystem services, necessary for assessing the extent of damage society as a result of the degradation of natural ecosystems, the formation of students accumulation of special professional, social and personal competencies 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 numerous problems in the process of applying the acquired knowledge knowledge in practice. Separate components of the discipline are the study of: the 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
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. 6. Гродзинський М.Д. Ландшафтна екологія: підручник. Київ: Знання, 2014. 550 с.
Planned learning activities and teaching methods
practical occupation, analytical report, discussion, solution specific tasks
Assessment methods and criteria
implementation creative design works, presentations, 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