Promotion and Environmental Citizenship

Use of interactive audiovisual media in theoretical and theoretical-practice lectures.

Recognize the importance of nature conservation, ecosystem services and environmental quality for human well-being;
Identify and understand the impacts of subject / environment interaction and environment/ human health;
Recognize the importance of environmental policy instruments implementation;
Know the concept, framework and aims of the promotion and environmental citizenship;
Know and promote good practices of individual and collective participation, to the issues of environment and sustainable development;
Acquire skills to design and develop information, intervention and communication strategies, appropriate to the demands of society, and to promote environmental citizenship;
Recognize the actions that increase the exercise of environmental good practice.

General environmental issues:
– Concepts and functional processes of nature and environmental sciences
– Ecosystem services and human well-being
Environmental issues and human well-being:
– The state of the environment:
Air pollution
Water pollution
Soil pollution
– Renewable and non-renewable natural resources
– Climate change
– Environmental Disasters – Impact on ecosystems and humanitarian implications
Environmental policy and nature conservation:
– Summits Environment
– National, International and European Policy
– Planning and land use planning
Principles, environmental and citizenship concepts
– Civic participation, citizenship and environment
– The environment and the media

• - Presentation and defense - 40.0%
• - Paper - 60.0%

NAO

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