Ecological and economic monitoring of the environment

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Ecological and economic monitoring of the
environment

• Authors
• Professor Valentin Vasilyevich Naidenko,
  Doctor Sciences (Engng), Member of the Russian
  Academy of Architecture and Construction
  Sciences, Rector of Nizhny Novgorod State
  University of Architecture and Civil Engineering
• Professor Aleksandr Nikolayevich Kosarikov -
  Doctor Sciences (Econ.), UNESCO Chair
  Environmentally Safe Development of a Large
  Region Volga River Basin, Nizhny Novgorod
  State University of Architecture and Civil
  Engineering
• Professor Leonid Nikandrovich Gubanov - Doctor
  Sciences (Engng), Head of the Chair of Ecology
  and Nature Management Nizhny Novgorod State
  University of Architecture and Civil Engineering.
• Irina Mikhailovna Afanasyeva, Candidate of
  Sciences (Biol.), Associate Professor of the
  Chair of Ecology and Nature Management Nizhny
  Novgorod State University of Architecture and
  Civil Engineering
• Aleksandr Vladimirovich Ivanov - Associate
  Professor of the Chair of Ecology and Nature
  Management Nizhny Novgorod State University of
  Architecture and Civil Engineering, expert on
  integrated municipal planning of the foundation
  Institute of Urban Economics Nizhny Novgorod
  branch

Reviewers Professor Manfred Kiy, Faculty
of Economics, Fachhochschule, Cologne,
Germany. Professor D.B.Gelashvili, Doctor of
Sciences (Biol.), Head of the Chair of Ecology,
Nizhny Novgorod State University
Computerized course for network studies
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Purpose of the course

• Improvement of the educational services offered
  by Nizhny Novgorod State University of
  Architecture and Civil Engineering and provision
  of modern educational standards on the basis of
  particularization of the ecological and economic
  knowledge in application to the relevant
  monitoring procedures

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Course objectives

• The course is oriented to the application of the
  fundamental conceptions of analysis and
  forecasting with consideration given to the
  ecological sustainability and effectiveness of
  investments

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Methodological originality of the course

• Integration of the course with the latest
  developments in the area of modern computer
  technologies
• Large scale use of materials dedicated to the
  analysis of regional experience in the
  development and construction of the regional
  systems of monitoring and estimation of the
  progress in implementation of ecological
  programs
• Large scale application of mathematical tools
  allowing a wide use of intensive teaching methods
  in the educational process.

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The place of the course among other social
science disciplines and humanities

• The course is intended for the fifth year
  students pursuing the program in specialty 060800
  Economics and management of an enterprise with
  ecological and economic specialization, and for
  graduate students aiming at masters degree in
  the direction 521600 Economics, program 521618
  Economics of nature management.
• The course provides deep knowledge in monitoring
  complicated ecological/economic systems
• The course helps specify the ecological and
  economic information which is required for
  effective management decision making

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Innovative aspects of the course (scientific,
substantial comparative analysis in contrast
with similar courses offered in Russia and abroad
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• The existing course books on ecological
  monitoring in Russia are mostly oriented to
  environmental conditions diagnostics.
• This course book offers many examples based on
• information on air condition monitoring in a
  large metropolitan area
• materials on implementation of the specialized
  program of social and hygienic monitoring in a
  large metropolitan area
• system of sustainable development indicators
  adopted by the EPA, USA indicators of social
  and economic conditions in the cities developed
  by the foundation Institute of Urban Economics
  , and the sustainable development indicators by
  the Russian Academy of Sciences

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Course sections

• Basic principles and concepts of environmental
  monitoring
• Modeling of ecological and economic systems
• Processing and analysis of ecological and
  economic information intended for monitoring
  systems
• Ecological and economic monitoring of natural
  objects and systems
• Regional and municipal systems of ecological and
  economic monitoring
• Monitoring ecological effectiveness of the
  environmental programs implemented by individual
  industrial enterprises
• Monitoring projects and programs introducing
  market based mechanisms of dealing in pollution
  quotas.

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Course trial

• The trial of the course was conducted in the
  academic group pursuing the program 330100
  Occupational and public safety in technosphere,
  from October 2002 till May 2003