DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT

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Head of the Department - Professor M. V. Slipenchuk

Year of Foundation - 1987; the Department is founded by ProfessorA. P. Kapitsa, D.Sc., Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Science; President of the International Foundation of Human Ecology.

Teaching and Research Staff:
Full Professors: A. P. Kapitsa, (theoretical and global problems of environmental management; environmental management in Polar regions human ecology); S. G. Toushinski, D.Sc. (environmental monitoring and impact assessment); Associate Professors: V. G. Konovalenko, Ph.D. (theoretical problems of environmental management), L. G. Bondarev, Ph.D. (society impact on the environment), Yu. L. Mazurov, Ph.D. (economics and spatial organization of environmental management), D. D. Badyukov, Ph.D. (aquatic ecosystems, management of marine environment); Leading Researchers: M. V. Muratova, D.Sc. (human impact on atmosphere and climate), A. V. Evseev, D.Sc. (geoecology of the North, urban ecology), A. V. Krasnushkin, Ph.D. (physical-chemical methods of environmental monitoring), S. G. Pokrovsky, Ph.D. (land-use optimization); Senior Researchers: S. V. Kiselev, Ph.D. (paleoecology, environmental bioindication), G. D. Moukhin, Ph.D. (land-use, protected areas), T. A. Vorobyova, Ph.D. (environmental assessment),

Graduate Qualification: Geographer/Ecologist, specialist in environmental management; the graduates are well-trained participating in scientific, academic and/or applied projects and activities in the position of Research Scientist, Environmental Engineer, Environmental Compliance Officer, Teacher / Lecturer in Environmental Science; the graduates of the department are prepared to work at research and planning institutions, state agencies, ministries, and committees, in the secondary/high-school and the universities, at private enterprises, and in other organizations concerned with analysis, assessment, training, and/or decision-making in the fields of environmental and nature resources management.

Key Courses: Introduction to Environmental Management, Landscape Geophysics and Geochemistry, Basic Ecology, Pollutants in the Environment, Environmental Monitoring, Development and Change of Geographic Environment, History of Environmental Management, Environmental Economics, Environmental Administration and Control, Environmental Law, Analytical Methods of Environmental Monitoring, Modelling of Environmental Change, Geoinformatics, Environmental Impact Assessment.

Special Division - 'Ecology': Refreshing courses in Ecology and Environmental Management for practicing specialists with complete higher education.

Research Divisions (Heads):

· Physical Geography Laboratory (Professor A. P. Kapitsa),

· Land-Use Optimization Laboratory (Dr S. G. Pokrovsky).

· Environmental Systems Monitoring Laboratory (Professor S. G. Toushinski),

Research Strategy - Research on the theoretical foundations of environmental management and conservation, land resources assessment and land-use optimization, protected areas planning, natural indication of environmental contamination, global climate change, integral monitoring of aquatic ecosystems, geochemistry of urban environment, geoecology of the North, remote sensing, environmental modelling and data analysis, GIS development, environmental insurance and audit, legislative aspects in evironmental management.

Accomplished Research - Geography of the World Ocean, surface water quality, theoretical and experimental studies of aquatic ecosystems, background concentrations of trace elements in Polar regions, modelling of anthropogenic climate change.

Prospective Research - theoretical principles of environmental management, integral assessment of land and water resources, geographic basis of environmental systems monitoring, historical monitoring of the environment, mathematical modelling of natural and anthropogenic processes, development of geographic information systems with decision making applications, analysis of remotely sensed data, ecology of settlements, environment as a part of cultural heritage, design of the GIS for the Russian Arctic, research of regional environmental issues.

Scientific and Academic Contacts - Departments of Environmental Management and Conservation of the universities of Voronezh, Perm', Mordov, Tver', Tomsk, Saratov, St-Petersburg; Institute of Geography (Moscow), Institute of Oceanology (Moscow), Institute of Space Research (Moscow), Institute of Global Climate and Ecology (Moscow), Institute of Geography (Irkutsk), Northern Water Problems Institute (Petrozavodsk), Institute of Water and Ecological Problems (Barnaul), Institute of Inland Waters Biology (Borok), and other research institutions of the Russian Academy of Science; Russian Committee for Water Resources, Russian Ministry of Environmental Protection and Natural Resources, Russian Federal Hydrometeorological and Environmental Monitoring Survey

International Relations - Research and academic contacts with the universities of Halle and Gottingen (Germany), Scott Polar Research Institute, World Conservation Monitoring Centre (United Kingdom), GRID-Arendal (Norway); teaching undergraduate, graduate, and postgraduate students, as well as pre-doctoral and post-doctoral trainees, from Germany, USA, Italy, Mongol Republic, PR China; participation in international exchange and training programs, conferences and symposia, international research programs.

Main Publications
monographs:

Kapitsa A. P. (Ed.) 'Geography of the World Ocean',

Toushinski S. G. & Shinkar G. G. 'Pollution and Protection of Natural Waters',

Toushinski S. G. 'Quality of Natural Waters: Monitoring and Forecasting',

Touchinski S. G. 'Biosphere Preserves and Global Monitoring',

Balandin R. K. & Bondarev L. G. 'Environment and Civilization';

Bondarev L. G. 'Trace Elements: Good and Evil';

Mazurov Yu. L. 'Environmental Economics';

manuals:

Krasovskaya T. M. & Evseev A. V. 'Environmental Management in the Kola Peninsula';

Krasnushkin A. V. et al. 'Analytical Methods of Environmental Monitoring';

Naumov A. S. (Ed.), Danshin A. I., Denisov N. B. et al. 'Problems in Geography: A Source-Book for School Teachers '