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Course code: OŹES10176f15Semester: 2015/2016 summer
Name: Environment Policy, Law and Economy
Major: Renewable Energy and Waste Management
Study Type: first cycle
Course type: optional
Study Semester: 6
ECTS points: 2
Hours (Lectures / Tutorials / Other): 15 / 15 / 0
Lecturer: Dr inż. Jan den Boer
Language of instruction: Polish
Learning outcomes: Knowledge: has elementary knowledge about the natural environment and its endangering. Has general knowlegde about the technologies of the management of renewable energies and waste. Skills: Can gather and process information from various sources. Is able to draw logical conclusions and clearly formulate opinions. Is able to assess both technical processes and it effects on the environment and society. Is able to find solutions for problems in the field of sustainable energy production and waste management.
Competences: Competences: Understands the need to know the capabilities and continuous training (studies II and III degree, postgraduate courses) - raising professional competence, personal and social. Is aware of the importance, responsibility and consequences of engineering activities towards renewable energy sources and waste management in terms of responsibility for the quality of life for people and the environment.
Prerequisites: Physics, Chemistry
Course content: The course deals with communicating environmentally benign behaviour. Analysis of the application of the Triada model – human behaviour in a pro-environmental context. Strategy for the improvement of separate collection results and application thereof to specific waste generating stakeholder groups. Problems of the planning of investments in the field of renewable energy production or waste processing (NIMBY: Not In My BackYard lub BANANA: Build Absolutely Nothing Anywhere Near Anything). .
Recommended literature: 1. Not in My Back Yard: The Handbook / Jane Anne Moris, Silvercat Publications, 1994. 2. Ekologiczna praca : 100 sposobów, aby ochrona środowiska stała się naszym znakiem firmowym / Kim McKay i Jenny Bonnin oraz Tim Wallace; Warszawa : Wydawnictwo G+J RBA, 2011. 3. Diagnoza stanu edukacji środowiskowej społeczności lokalnych : w wybranych regionach Polski / Ligia Tuszyńska. Warszawa : Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Wrocławskiego, 2008. 4. Edukacja dla zrównoważonego rozwoju / pod red. Tadeusza Borysa. Jelenia Góra ; Białystok : Fundacja Ekonomistów Środowiska i Zasobów Naturalnych. Wydawnictwo Ekonomia i Środowisko, 2006. 5. Public relations / Moi Ali; Warszawa, Wiedza i Życie, 2002 6. Efektywność inwestycji w odnawialne źródła energii : analiza kosztów i korzyści / Magdalena Ligus. Warszawa : CeDeWu.pl Wydawnictwa Fachowe, 2010
Assessment methods: Assessment of education effects in terms of knowledge: credit of written exam, credit of all tutorials. Assessment of education effects in terms of skills: results analysis and interpretation of collected data. Assessment of education effects in terms of social competences: individual work, group wrok, ecological consciousness, copyrights respect, responsibility for entrusted task, conscientiousness in the preparations for task realization.
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