Bachelor 2025/2026

Development of Environmental Policies

Type: Compulsory course (Geography of Global Changes and Geoinformation Technology)

Delivered by: Faculty of Geography and Geoinformation Technology

When: 4 year, 3 module

Open to: students of one campus

Language: English

Course Syllabus

Abstract

At present, there are more than 200 international environmental agreements that outline the zone of active influence of modern environmental policy. Global environmental management covers all spheres of the economy - from energy (the threat of global warming) and the chemical industry (the threat of depletion of the ozone layer) to agriculture (the threat of the spread of genetically modified organisms). Meanwhile, most global agreements appeared in the last third of the twentieth century, when the Earth sciences did not yet have at their disposal modern research methods, such as computers and space satellites. In the absence of a real scientific basis, agreements were formulated on the basis of very general ideas about possible environmental threats. An example is the problem of desertification, which appeared on the international political agenda in 1975, and the climatic maps of arid zones created back in the 1950s served as a scientific substantiation. Many of these stereotypes have now been significantly revised, and the conventions themselves have had to adapt to a new level of knowledge. The transformation of environmental policy under the influence of scientific criticism is the main topic that is studied within the framework of this training course