Environmental Protection and Sustainability

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English

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24 h

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Self-paced
Free Access
Fee-based Certificate

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8 Sequences
Introductive Level
Subtitles in Arabic, Hebrew

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Syllabus

Week 1: General Introduction and Biodiversity
Biodiversity and ecosystem functionality, biodiversity and ecosystem stability, species richness and its determinants, ecosystem services

Week 2: Conservation Biology and Reintroduction
Threats to biodiversity, extinctions, conservation strategies, conservation genetics, animal reintroduction

Week 3: Open Spaces and Agroecology
Contribution of open spaces to biodiversity, wildlife friendly farming and land sharing, scale-oriented processes, movement and survival

Week 4: Air Quality and Pollution
Dynamics of particles, air pollution and health-related problems, coagulation and filtration systems, atmospheric aerosols

Week 5: Water Quality and Reuse
Physical properties and hydrologic cycle, water quality and its major components, water use, and grey water

Week 6: Green Building
Relevance for environmental protection, building materials and their environmental impact, green building and energy saving, buildings as part of the city

Week 7: Urban Sustainability
Environmental problems at the city level, the city as an ecosystem, sustainability potential, urban metabolism, urban footprint

Week 8: Global Sustainability
From empty to full world, human well-being, socio-environmental interactions, behavior of individuals and societies, policy and planning

Prerequisite

None.

Instructors

Shirli Bar-David
Senior Lecturer, PhD
Ben-Gurion University of the Negev

David Katoshevski
Professor, PhD
Ben-Gurion University of the Negev

Amit Gross
Professor and Director of the Zuckerberg Institute for Water Research (ZIWR)
Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel

Isaac A. Meir
Associate Professor, PhD
Ben-Gurion University of the Negev

Meidad Kissinger
Associate Professor, PhD
IsraelX

Yaron Ziv
Associate Professor, PhD
Ben-Gurion University of the Negev

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