Sustainable development

The Department’s mission is to provide for high quality education at undergraduate, graduate and postgraduate levels in order to support sustainable development of cities, communities and regions while addressing the challenges of global environmental change and following the contemporary trends in environmental governance.

Degree Programmes

The 1^st (Bachelors) cycle:

101 – Environmental Studies

183 – Environmental Protection Technology

The 2^nd (Masters) cycle:

101 – Urban Ecology

(developed and delivered in the frameworks of the EU’s ERASMUS+ Project «Multilevel Local, Nation- and Regionwide Education and Training in Climate Services, Climate Change Adaptation and Mitigation – ClimEd» (2020–2023, post-project period 2024–2029)

183 – Environmental Protection Technology

The 3^rd (PhD) cycle:

183 – Environmental Protection Technology

The list of learning courses in the degree programmes that address the Sustainable Development Goals 

• Applied Aquatic Environmental Science
• Water Management
• Water Resource Protection Technologies
• Sources and Processes of Aquatic Pollution
• Aquatic Pollution Abatement
• Inland and Coastal Water Quality Management
• Integrated Water Resources Management
• The Systems and Technologies for Water Protection in Urban Areas
• Urban Hydrological Cycle​

• Urban Environmental and Energy Safety and the Renewable Energy Sources
• Innovative Resource- and Energy-efficient Technologies in the Municipal Power Supply Sector
• Environmental Engineering Design

• Strategy of Urban Sustainable Development
  
• Sustainable Development and Climate-oriented Environmental Governance
• Humans, Technologies, and the Urban Environment
• Urban Ecology
• The City as a Social System
• Basics of Environmental Governance and Entrepreneurship
• Spatial Modelling of Urban Ecosystems
• Ecological Stability and Resilience of Urban Geological and Soil Environment
• Regulatory Framework for the Environmental Protection Activities
• Environmental Monitoring
• Environmental Legislation and Expertise
• Environmental Impact Assessment
• Ecotoxicology and Environmental Standards and Norms
  
• Organisational and Economic Aspects of Environmental Protection Activities
• Innovative Solutions in the Environmental Protection
• Environmental Management Systems
• Environmental Standardisation and Certification
• Methods of Data Visualisation and Decision-Making in the Environmental Protection
• Strategic Environmental Assessment
• Information and Spatial Analysis of the Urban Environment

• Municipal Solid Waste Management
• Waste Reclamation and Utilisation Technologies
• Urban Sanitation
• Waste Management
  
• Integrated Waste Mangement Systems

• Adaptation Strategies of Urban Sytems to the Climate Change
• Environmental Engineering Assessment of Urban Infrastructure Stability and Vulnerability to the Climate Change
• Ecosystem Technologies for the Urban Systems Resilience and Adaptation
• Natural Processes in the Geosphere
• Applied Atmospheric Environmental Science
• Sources and Processes of Atmospheric Pollution
• Atmospheric Pollution Abatement
• Urban Air Quality Management
• Technologies for Protection of the Urban Atmospheric Environment
• Methods of Forecasting Urban Atmospheric Pollution

• General Ecology
• Soil Science
• Landscape Ecology
• Biodiversity Conservation
• Urban Green Infrastructure and Ecological Network Development