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Principles of Environmental Science
Teaching Staff: To be announced
Course Code: ΤΠ-1001
Course Type: Compulsory
Course Level: Undergraduate
Course Language: Greek
Semester: 1st
ECTS: 5
Teaching Units: 4
Teaching Hours: 4
Short Description:
- Introduction to environmental sciences, what is environmental science and why it is important. How science can support theories about environmental issues.
- Ecological systems - building blocks of life - energy transfer. Ecosystems - ecological pyramids - food chains - networks Biogeochemical cycles. Productivity of ecosystems - interactions between abiotic and biotic elements of the environment - dynamics of populations and habitats - virulence processes.
- Solid waste - what it is and how much we produce - how we can reduce the volume of waste and of the pollution we produce. What is recycling - the pros and cons of recycling, waste management methods.
- Indoor-outdoor gas pollution, with brief references to topics such as: air structure and processes, outdoor air pollution (pollutants, clouds and acid deposition), indoor air pollution, effects of gas pollution and ways to reduce and prevent of air pollution.
- Global warming, with key subsections on issues such as the Greenhouse effect, the possible effects of global warming and potential solutions.
- Environmental policy and sustainability, with references to the historical evolution of the concept of sustainability, ecological thinking and development, human growth, the ecological footprint with aim the creation of sustainable economies.
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