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Course code: IAS20082o14Semester: 2014/2015 summer
Name: Landscape Protection
Major: Landscape Architecture
Study Type: second cycle
Course type: compulsory
Study Semester: 1
ECTS points: 5
Hours (Lectures / Tutorials / Other): 30 / 30 / 0
Lecturer: dr hab. inż. Andrzej Drabiński, dr inż. Katarzyna Tokarczyk-Dorociak, dr inż. Justyna Jaworek, dr inż. Bartosz Jawecki
Language of instruction: Polish / English
The course in English will be available if a minimum of 6 students sign up for a group. If less than 6 students sign up for the group, the course will be available in Polish with the possibility of individual support in English. Personal contact: dr inz. Bartosz Jawecki
Learning outcomes: The student after completion of the course should: - understand the processes, phenomena and interactions occurring in the environment; - the hazards and environmental pollution; - understand the short and long term processes in the natural environment; - be able to determine the causes and consequences of environmental degradation; - understand the links between the global phenomenon and anthropopressure; - be able to practically apply the norms and standards for assessing the quality of the environment; - know what action should be taken to protect the environment and what methods are used to restore the degraded or transformed by the human elements of the environment of their primary functions.
Competences: Student: - understand the links between the global phenomenon and anthropopressure; - be able to practically apply the norms and standards for assessing the quality of the environment; - know what action should be taken to protect the nvironment and what methods are used to restore the degraded or transformed by the human elements of the environment of their primary functions.
Prerequisites: the basis of law, protection of the environment
Course content: Environment and its components. Environmental policy of the state. Landscape in the environmental policy of the state. Access to information about the environment and its state. National environmental monitoring. Indicator organisms. Pollution and protection of the atmospheric air. Greenhouse effect - causes and effects. Polish water resources against Europe and the world. Sources and types of anthropogenic pollution of water. Protection and reclamation of degraded land and soils. Electromagnetic radiation in the environment. Forms of nature conservation. Waste management The organs and systems of environmental law.
Recommended literature: LIRO A. (ed.) 1995: National Ecological Network ECONET-Poland. Fundacja IUCN-Poland, Warszawa ŻARSKA B. 2001: Study of landscape protection – methodics of working out for various areas. Ann. Warsaw Agricult. Univ. – SGGW Horticult. (Landsc. Architect.), 22: 111-122. ŻARSKA B. 2002: Ecological criteria of landscape shaping. Ann. Warsaw Agricult. Univ. – SGGW, Horticult. (Land. Architect.) 23: 129-139. ŻARSKA B. 2003: Method of landscape meaning assessment of landscape dominant and conception of landscape dominant trails system. Ann. Warsaw Agricult. Univ. – SGGW, Horticult. (Land. Architect.) 24: 155-166. ŻARSKA B. 2005: Ochrona krajobrazu. Wyd. 3 zmienione. Wydaw. SGGW, Warszawa. Richling A., Solon J., Ekologia krajobrazu, Wydawnictwo PWN, wyd. V, 2011 Council Directive 92/43/EEC of 21.05.92 on the conservation of natural habitats and of wild fauna and flora Council Directive 79/409/EEC of 2.4.79 on the conservation of wild birds European Landscape Convention
Assessment methods: credit classes, examination
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