Study of Natural Anthropogenic Landscape

Module Name

Study of Natural Anthropogenic Landscape

Identification code

M1.В.ОД.2

Subtitle

Courses embedded

Term

Term 1

Coordinator

Teachers

Dr. Solodyankina S.V.

Tuition language

Russian

Programme involvement

Compulsory MSc Environmental Management and Audit

Teaching form,

contact time per week

class size

Seminars: 16 h

15

Workload overall

Contact time

116h

21h

ECTS credit points

3

Preconditions prescribed

Ability to predict geoecological effects of anthropogenic environmental transformation in urban and mining districts. Knowledge of types of anthropogenic environmental influences, peculiarities of various anthropogenic pollution sources, science-based methods of ecological and, particularly, ecological geochemical monitoring of natural anthropogenic landscapes and fundamentals of geoinformational technologies needed for management decision-making in urban and mining districts.

Learning outcomes

Prediction of geoecological effects of anthropogenic transformation of natural environment in urban and mining districts. Knowledge of types of anthropogenic environmental influences and peculiarities of different anthropogenic pollution sources. Knowledge of science-based methods of ecological and, particularly, ecological geochemical monitoring of natural anthropogenic landscapes and fundamentals of geoinformational technologies needed for management decision-making in urban and mining districts.

Content

Study of approaches to estimation of anthropogenic pollution sources and differentiation features of anthropogenic geochemical processes; study of methods of anthropogenic and natural anthropogenic systems development; principles of estimation of geochemical landscapes resistance to anthropogenic influences and arrangement of ecological monitoring of natural anthropogenic landscapes; study of methods of rehabilitation of the landscapes transformed by various kinds of household activity.

Assessment

Test (100%)

Teaching media

Powerpoint – presentations, handouts.

References

Kasimov N.S., Klige R.K. Contemporary Global Environmental Changes. – M.: Scientific World, 2006.

Bashkin V.N., Kasimov N.S. Biogeochemistry. – M.: Scientific World, 2004.

Alekseenko V.A. Ecological Geochemistry. – M.: Logos, 2000.

Contact

(+73952)521072