Reserve Management and Studies

Major: Environmental Studies
Code of subject: 6.101.00.O.015
Credits: 7.00
Department: Ecology and Sustainable Environmental Management
Lecturer: PhD, Assis. Prof. Tymchuk Ivan
Semester: 3 семестр
Mode of study: денна
Learning outcomes: Program competencies: • ability to determine the need to bequeath certain territories and objects. Acquisition of skills of educational activity of ecological direction and propagation of nature protection, ecological and neo-ecological knowledge. • acquisition of skills of scientific organization of geosystems, description of landscape territorial structures and types of soils, methods of their assessment. • ability to master international and domestic experience in solving regional and transboundary environmental problems. Program results: • be able to optimize the network of protected areas and objects of the nature reserve fund; to conduct theoretical and practical research in protected areas. Learning outcomes: • rational organization and optimization of the protected area; • use the experience of international cooperation in the field of environmental protection.
Required prior and related subjects: • Biology and microbiology • Hydrology • Landscape ecology and Soil science
Summary of the subject: The role and importance of protected areas and objects in the life of the biosphere and society. The historical development and current state reserves in Ukraine. Legislative and regulatory basis for the formation and development of reserves in Ukraine. Compliance with environmental legislation in the territories nature reserve fund. Classification and areas of objects NRF Ukraine. Environmental network Ukraine. Red Book of Ukraine. The main forms of international cooperation in Protected Areas. The main provisions of environmental conventions character. Nature Reserve Fund of Ukraine and Lviv region.
Assessment methods and criteria: • current control, verbal questioning, control work (40%) • final control (control measure, exam): writing-verbal form (60%)
Recommended books: 1. Заповідна справа в Україні: Навч. Посібник / За заг. ред. М. Д. Гродзинського, М. П. Стеценка. – К.: Географіка, 2003. – 306 с. 2. Сівак В., Солодкий В. Заповідна справа. - Чернівці: Зелена Буковина, 2001. 3. Манюк, О. Р. Заповідна справа : практикум / О. Р. Манюк. - 2-ге вид. із зм. - Івано-Франківськ : ІФНТУНГ, 2013. - 60 с.