Conducted in terms:
Summer Semester 2011/12
Summer Semester 2014/15
Summer Semester 2017/18

ECTS credits: 2

Organized by: Faculty of Engineering Management

The Ecology of Natural Resources KS02054E

Course content:
The environment as object of use and protection: main epistmological and substantial problems. Main precesses in biosphere. Relationships between economy and ecosystems. The essence and features of contemporary envieonmental crisis. Motives and conceptions of environmental protection. Sustainable development. Air and climate protection. Water protection. Waste management. Nature and landscape conservation. Protection against noise, vibrations and radiation. Main types of environmental use.
Learning outcomes:
Acquaintance of rudiments of interdisciplinary knowledge about environmental protection. Skills of comprehensive view on contemporary environmental issue

(in Polish) Rodzaj przedmiotu

(in Polish) Obowiązkowy

Course coordinators

Term 2011L:

Grzegorz Dobrzański

Term 2017L:

Joanna Godlewska

Term 2014L:

Joanna Godlewska

Bibliography

a) basic references:
G.Dobrzański (red.), B.M.Dobrzańska, D.Kiełczewski, Ochrona środowiska przyrodniczego, PWN, Warszawa 2008.
I.G.Simmons, Ekologia zasobów naturalnych, PWN, Warszawa 1979.
S.Czaja, A.Becla, Ekologiczne podstawy procesów gospodarowania, Wyd. AE im. O.Langego, Wrocław 2007.
b) supplementary references:
B.Poskrobko, T.Poskrobko, K.Skiba, Ochrona biosfery, PWE, Warszawa 2007.
R.F.Dasmann, J.P.Milton, P.H.Freeman, Ekologiczne podstawy rozwoju gospodarczego, PWN, Warszawa 1980.
Brown L.R., Gospodarka ekologiczna na miarę Ziemi, KiW, Warszawa 2003.
Wiezsäcker E.U.von, Lovins A., Lovins L.H., Mnożnik Cztery. Podwojony dobrobyt – dwukrotnie mniejsze zużycie zasobów naturalnych, Wydawnictwo Rolewski, Toruń 1999.