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Course code: NBSS10110o12
Semester: 2012/2013 summer
Name: Environmental Protection
Major: Biotechnology
Study Type: first cycle
Course type: compulsory
Study Semester: 4
ECTS points: 3
Hours (Lectures / Tutorials / Other): 15 / 15 / 4
Lecturer: dr inż. Lesław Szymański
Language of instruction: Polish


Learning outcomes: Knowledge After completing the course student will know the main sources of atmosphere, water of soils and forests contamination as well as types of contamination produced by food, heavy, agricultural and farming industry. He will know the means of its preservation, rules of environmental monitoring and will find the regulations concerning the environmental protection. Skills After completing the course student will know how to find, elaborate, verify and correctly present materials concerning the sources of air, water, soil and forests contamination as well as produced by food, agricultural and farming industry.

Competences: Student understands the necessity of environmental protection and is aware of its contamination. He will be eager to cooperate with all associated branches.

Prerequisites: chemistry, biochemistry, microbiology, major technologies

Course content: Principles of environmental protection. Structure of atmosphere and its phenomena. Atmosphere protection including: dusty and gassy pollutants as well as protective methods used for their neutralization. Water protection. Eutrophication processes and self-purification of waters. Geological structure of soils and methods of its protection. Forests and their protection. Environmental contamination caused by agriculture. Reclamation and management of degraded soils. Dangers of environment associated with communal and industrial wastes composition. Waste management regulations in Poland and EU.

Recommended literature: 1.Nawirska A.; Ekologia z elementami ochrony środowiska., Wyd. WSH Wrocław 2006; 2.Głowiak B i inni., Podstawy ochrony środowiska., PWN 1991; 3.Kluczek J., P., Wybrane zagadnienia z ochrony środowiska., Wyd. ATR Bydgoszcz 1999; 4.Cieszkowski A Natural and technological problems of protection and development of agricultural and forest evironment., Wyd. AR Poznań 1999.

Assessment methods: subsumed laboratories, project, written or oral exam

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