ECTS
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Course code: IAS20082o17Semester: 2017/2018 summer
Name: Landscape Protection
Major: Landscape Architecture
Study Type: second cycle
Course type: compulsory
Study Semester: 1
ECTS points: 5
Hours (Lectures / Tutorials / Other): 15 / 30 / 0
Lecturer: 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. Contact person: dr inż. Katarzyna Tokarczyk-Dorociak
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: Ability to work in a GIS environment
Course content: Landscape protection and management in the light of the European Landscape Convention. Assessment of landscape resources. Protection of natural and cultural landscape. Forms of nature conservation and forms of preservation of historical monuments. The legal guidelines for the protection of nature and cultural resources in Poland. The European landscape protection system. The principles of drawing up protection plans. Protection of agricultural, forest and river valley landscape. Environmental management system and landscape management system. Financing of landscape protection projects. The legal basis for landscape protection in Poland. The provisions of the Act Amending Certain Acts in Connection with the Strengthening of the Landscape Protection Tools and the European Landscape Convention. Landscape protection in areas with high natural values. Landscape protection in areas protected under the Nature Conservation Act. A protection plan as a tool for landscape protection. Spatial planning and landscape protection in Poland. Elements of an environmental impact assessment with reference to an assessment of the impact of a planned construction project and a programme/strategy plan on landscape. The principles of drawing up a landscape audit.
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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