Lecture №1

Introduction. The essence and the general characteristics of EU environmental security and environmental policy.

Introduction. Subject, object, aims and course objectives.

The essence and the general characteristics of country’s environmental security. The EU and its competence in the field of the environmental protection.

The analysis of EU systemic environmental management attributes: environmental policy (its state and forming), EU environmental programs, strategic action plans.

EU institutions in the environmental field: the European Commission, the European Parliament, the European Council and the European Environment Agency (EEA), the European environmental information and observations network (EEION).

 

lecture №2

EU environmental law

The EU environmental law principles, environmental violations and legal responsibility.

Analysis of the EU framework legislation that is aimed at ensuring a high level of environmental protection, regulating the climate change prevention; legal regime for environmental protection, areas and objects requiring special protection; preserving and protecting biodiversity; legal regulating hazard objects and creating a system of preventing major industrial accidents; regulating environmentally hazardous (waste) activity.

 

Lecture №3

European countries international cooperation in environmental protection

The European Environmental Policy and its place in the international format. The structure of the international environmental policy. The political methods on solving the issues on environmental protection in European countries.

The basic principles and mechanisms of international environmental policy functioning. The international environmental cooperation fundamental ideas. International documents governing environmental cooperation.

 

Lecture №4

International organizations on protecting the environment

The intergovernmental environmental organizations. The international non-governmental environmental organizations institutional, financial and administrative capacity (UNO, IAEA, WHO, IMO, Council of Europe, EEA, etc.). The intergovernmental European programs monitoring the state of the environment and preventing global environmental crisis.

International non-governmental environmental organizations. The role of international non-governmental organizations towards the formation of sustainable environmental management and sustainable development in the EU. The activities of international NGOs, non-government agencies, foundations (IUCN, GPI, WWF, WSPA, the EEA Club of Rome, etc.) on preserving species diversity and wildlife, climate change problems, promoting environmental information among the general public.

 

Lecture №5

The general characteristics of environmental education in the European Union

The objectives, goals, models, directions, principles of environmental education in the EU countries. Characteristics of environmental education national systems in the EU. The ecological culture in the context of environmental safety.

 

Lecture №6

Environmental education for children in the EU countries.

Basics of environmental education for school children in the European Union, its content and forms.

The essence of schoolchildren environmental education in Austria, Denmark, Ireland, Finland, Germany, Greece, Sweden, the UK, France and Belgium. The environmental focus of school education.

Characteristics of environmental programs for school children.

 

Lecture №7

Students’ environmental education in the EU

The aims  and the content of students’ environmental education in the European Union.

Students’ participating in environmental projects, international and public environmental organizations. Continuity in environmental education among all education levels in the European Union.

Using the EU experience of environmental education in Ukrainian educational system.

 

Lecture №8

Legal base of Ukraine in the field of environment

The concept, legal features and characteristics of Ukraine environmental policy and its implementing in law. Genesis of legal environmental policy support of Ukraine. The mechanisms of legal environmental policy support of Ukraine.

 

 

Lecture №9

The directions and priorities of Ukraine environmental policy development in the context of international experience

The priority directions of Ukraine policy in the field of environmental protection, natural resources and ensuring environmental safety.

The development of the environmental partnership in adopting and implementing strategic decisions: state - society - business

Harmonization of Ukraine legislation with the EU legislation on environmental safety.

Ukraine's participation in international legal agreement process in the field of environmental protection

National natural resource potential: preserving, restoring, reducing the losses and the costs.

Environmental science of Ukraine for the balanced development.