كلية الهندسة - جامعة عين شمس, الرئيسية

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Contemporary Environmental Issues

What Will Learn?

  • Course Aims
    - Introduce contemporary environmental issues and challenges, including pollution, environmental degradation, water scarcity, Seal level rise, and climate change and Environmental justice - Develop an understanding of the relationship between environmental conditions and urban and regional planning. - Examine the political and economic factors that influence the integration of environmental considerations into planning decisions. - Explore sustainable development concepts, principles, and approaches, including strong and weak sustainability. - Introduce environmentally sustainable development alternatives, including resource management, Nature Base Solution, and green and Blue infrastructure.
  • Course Goals
  • Quality Education
  • Sustainable Cities and Communities
  • Responsible Consumption and Production
  • Climate Action

Requirements

Description

  • English Description

    This course introduces the contemporary environmental problem (pollution, environmental degradation, desertification, erosion, climate change) - Environment as an important factor in the planning process - Conflicts leading to ignoring the environmental factor in planning (political and economic factors) - Development alternatives, Resources, Input, output, Renewable Energy, Green Infrastructure - The concept and aims of sustainable development, Types - Strong sustainability, weak sustainability, The concept of sustainable development (aims and types) - Natural protectorates (definition, planning process of the surrounding areas).
  • Arabic Description

    This course introduces the contemporary environmental problem (pollution, environmental degradation, desertification, erosion, climate change) - Environment as an important factor in the planning process - Conflicts leading to ignoring the environmental factor in planning (political and economic factors) - Development alternatives, Resources, Input, output, Renewable Energy, Green Infrastructure - The concept and aims of sustainable development, Types - Strong sustainability, weak sustainability, The concept of sustainable development (aims and types) - Natural protectorates (definition, planning process of the surrounding areas).
  • قسم
    التخطيط العمرانى
  • الساعات المعتمدة
    2
  • الدرجات
    الإجمالي ( 100 ) = نصف العام (25) + tr.Student Activities (35 = tr.Industry 5% , tr.Project 10% , tr.Self_learning 10% , tr.Seminar 10% ) + درجة الامتحان (40)
  • الساعات
    ساعات المحاضرة: 2.0, ساعات التعليم: 0.0, ساعات المعمل: 0.0
  • Required SWL
    100
  • Equivalent ECTS
    4.0
  • - Singh Pooja Rajeev Pratap Singh and Vaibhav Srivastava. 2020. Contemporary Environmental Issues and Challenges in Era of Climate Change.
  • - Nuala Stewart, Chapter 7 - Urban green space, social equity and human wellbeing, Editor(s): Pramit Verma, Pardeep Singh, Rishikesh Singh, A.S. Raghubanshi, Urban Ecology, Elsevier, 2020, Pages 111-127, ISBN 9780128207307, https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-820730-7.00007-0.
  • - G. Bolte, A. Pauli, C. Hornberg, Environmental Justice: Social Disparities in Environmental Exposures and Health: Overview, Editor(s): J.O. Nriagu, Encyclopedia of Environmental Health, Elsevier, 2011, Pages 459-470, ISBN 9780444522726, https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-444-52272-6.00685-1.
  • - Carolyn Stephens, Chris Church, Environmental Justice and Health, Editor(s): Stella R. Quah, International Encyclopedia of Public Health (Second Edition), Academic Press, 2017, Pages 499-506, ISBN 9780128037089, https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-803678-5.00134-X.
  • - Jennifer R. Wolch, Jason Byrne, Joshua P. Newell, Urban green space, public health, and environmental justice: The challenge of making cities ‘just green enough’, Landscape and Urban Planning, Volume 125, 2014, Pages 234-244, ISSN 0169-2046, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.landurbplan.2014.01.017.
  • - Meikle, M., Wilson, J., & Jafry, T. (2016). Climate justice: between Mammon and Mother Earth. International Journal of Climate Change Strategies and Management, 8(4), 488–504. https://doi.org/10.1108/IJCCSM-06-2015-0089