ECTS
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Course code: IAS10057f15Semester: 2015/2016 winter
Name: Environment Protection
Major: Landscape Architecture
Study Type: first cycle
Course type: optional
Study Semester: 4
ECTS points: 4
Hours (Lectures / Tutorials / Other): 30 / 30 / 0
Lecturer: prof. dr hab. inż. Andrzej Drabiński, dr inż. Bartosz Jawecki
Language of instruction: Polish
The course in Polish with the possibility of individual support in English. Contact person: dr inż. 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: Preceded subjects: ecology, soil science, plant biology, law.
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: 1. Zarzycki R., Imbierowicz M. Stelmachowski M.: Wprowadzenie do inżynierii i ochrony środowiska. Tom 1 i 2. Wydawnictwo Naukowo-Techniczne, Warszawa 2007. 2. Boć J., Nowacki K., Samborska-Boć E.: Ochrona środowiska. Wyd. Y, Kolonia Ltd 2004. 3. Chełmicki W.: Woda. Zasoby, degradacja, ochrona, Wydawnictwo Naukowe PWN, Warszawa 2002. 4. Falińska K.: Ekologia roślin. Bioróżnorodność, ochrona przyrody i ochrona środowiska., Wydawnictwo PWN, Warszawa 2004. 5. Górka K., Poskrobko B., Radecki W.: Ochrona środowiska, Polskie Wydawnictwo Ekonomiczne 2001. 6. Paluch J., Pulikowski K., Trybała M., Ochrona wód i gleb. Wyd. AR, Wrocław 2001. 7. Pyłka-Gutowska E., Ekologia z ochroną środowiska. Wydawnictwo Oświata 2004. 8. Bieszczad S., Sobota J. (red.): Zagrożenia, ochrona i kształtowanie środowiska przyrodniczo-rolniczego, Wyd. AR Wrocław 1999. 9. Zawadzki S.: Gleboznawstwo, PWRiL, Warszawa 1999. 10. Baran Z., Turski R., Degradacja, ochrona i rekultywacja gleb. Wydawnictwo Akademii Rolniczej w Lublinie, Lublin 1996. 11. Stępczak K. Ochrona i kształtowanie środowiska. Wydawnictwa Szkolne i Pedagogiczne, 1999. 12. II polityka ekologiczna państwa i jej aktualizacje. 13. Krajowy i wojewódzkie programy monitoringu środowiska.
Assessment methods: credit classes, examination
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