1. Water classification, threats and pollution of water. Eutrophication of water, acidification of water. Water use. 2. Factors influencing water quality in water bodies. Oxygen content in different water types and its relationship to organic and thermal pollution. Self-cleaning processes. 3. Global atmospheric problems: greenhouse effect (global warming, measures to limit global warming, climate change conferences and conventions), depletion of the ozone layer (basic data on the ozone layer, ozone-depleting substances, principles of ozone layer depletion, international conventions). 4. Air pollution, sources of air pollution, main pollutants and their effects and consequences, smog, acid rain. 5. Properties of soils, soil reactions, soil colloids, water in the rock environment. 6. Toxic effects on higher levels (effects at the level of tissues, organs, organism, population, community and ecosystem, biosphere). 7. Methodologies for assessing the exposure and effect of toxicants. 8. Toxicity testing methods; factors affecting the results. 9. Waste management; waste utilization and disposal; best available techniques of waste treatment. 10. Waste landfills; assessment of waste before landfilling; building, operating and closing waste landfills. 11. Thermal treatment of waste; waste incinerators; stabilization/solidification of waste. 12. Waste as raw material; recycling technology; packaging management. 13. Biogas technology. 14. Industrial composting. 15. General principles of environmental legislation. Legislative regulation in the area of water protection, legislative regulation in the area of air protection, legislative regulation in the area of waste management, legislation of the dealing with chemical substances.
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