Students will be able to describe and explain the basic concepts of physical and environmental geography.

All assignments from tutorials must be elaborated at an acceptable level in order to obtain credit. For the successful passing of the course, at least 50% of the available points in a written examination must be scored.

R:

Marsh, W. M., Grossa, J. (2004): Environmental Geography: Science, Land Use, and Earth Systems. 3rd Edition. Wiley.

Mason, J., Burt, J., Muller, P., de Blij, H. (2015). Physical Geography: The Global Environment. Oxford University Press.

Strahler, A. H. (2011): Introducing physical geography. Wiley.

D:

Dessler, A. (2015). Introduction to Modern Climate Change. 2nd Edition. Cambridge University Press.

Keller, E. A., DeVecchio, D. E. (2019). Natural Hazards: Earth's Processes as Hazards, Disasters, and Catastrophes. 5th Edition. Routledge.

1. Introduction, course organisation

2. Environmental geography – definition, concept and subject of the study

3. Natural spheres of the Earth and system of their mutual connections and feedbacks

4. Terrain of the landmasses and its evolution, plate tectonics

5. Endogenic and exogenic geomorphic processes

6. Water on the Earth, hydrological cycle, hydrology of the oceans

7. Hydrology of landmasses, glaciology

8. Atmosphere, general circulation of the atmosphere, weather and climate

9. Climatic regions on the Earth

10. Soils and biota on the Earth

11. Relations between climate, soils and vegetation

12. Anthropogenic influence on the landscapes, global change

13. Current environmental issues

14. Final discussion

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