ECTS
ECTS Course Catalogue
Course details
Course code: RSSN10246o12Semester: 2012/2013 winter
Name: Global environmental problems and sustainable development
Major: Environmental Protection
Study Type: first cycle
Course type: compulsory
Study Semester: 5
ECTS points: 3
Hours (Lectures / Tutorials / Other): 9 / 18 / 0
Lecturer: dr inż. Katarzyna Szopka
Language of instruction: Polish
Learning outcomes: The course is giving students knowledge of the most important global hazards and their impact to environment. Students during the course recognized rules of sustainable development and get to know with sustainable use of natural resources.
Competences: Students have got a theoretical knowledge about global environmental problems, international law connected with these global problems. Passing the course permits to estimate the environmental hazards connected with human faktor.
Prerequisites: natural resources, fundamental of environmental protection
Course content: Global environmental problems (desertification, deforestation, global warm effect, decrease of biodifference). Sustainable development – definition, main rules, history. International and polish law connected with sustainable development.
Recommended literature: Botkin D., Kelner E. „ Environmental Science” Jon Wiley & Sons, Inc. 2007 Bogda A., Kabała C., Karczewska A., Szopka K. „Zasoby naturalne i zrównoważony rozwój”, Wyd Uniwersytetu Przyrodniczego we Wrocławiu, 2010
Assessment methods: Obligatory credit past, written or oral exam past 5 semester, minimum 60% of knowlege to pass
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