SUBJECT

The social part of environmental science

lecture

master

Faculty of Science

Environmental Science MSc

2

Semester 4

Spring semester

The main reasons and consequences of the international environmental crisis; The major environmental contexts of the rapid economic growth and urbanization; Growth in world population and consumption; Sustainable consumption and production, Trends of the international and national environmental policy (overview). Environmental activities of the organizations of the United Nations. The European Union's environmental policy evaluation. The environmental policy analysis and planning basics. The main environmental performance measurement criteria and methods. The green economy and environmental management systems; The concept of urban environment; environmental management and the relationship between municipalities; environmental responsibilities and assets of the municipalities in Hungary Ability to analyze relationships (global and local trends and state; social, economic parts of the environmental study); ability to summarize (pressures, state, responses in the world and local environmental protection)

• Brown, Lester R. (2009): Plan B 4.0 - Mobilizing to Save Civilization. Earth Policy Institute. New York-London: W.W. Norton http://www.earth-policy.org/images/uploads/book_files/pb4book.pdf
• Diamond, Jared (2005): COLLAPSE. How societies choose to fail or succeed? New York: Penguin Books
• Homer-Dixon, Thomas F. (1999.): Environment, Scarcity and Violence. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press
• McNeill, John Robert (2000): Something New Under the Sun: An Environmental History of the Twentieth-Century World (The Global Century Series) New York: W.W. Norton