“Ecological monitoring of the urban environment” - course 2800 rubles. from MSU, training 15 weeks. (4 months), Date: December 3, 2023.

Topic 1. Introduction. Scientific and legal foundations of environmental monitoring of cities.
Definition of environmental monitoring and its tasks. Natural and anthropogenic changes in the environment, methods for studying them. Scientific and legal foundations of environmental monitoring. Main directions of monitoring activities. Classification of monitoring. Monitoring levels. State environmental monitoring. Background environmental monitoring

Topic 2. Standardization of anthropogenic impact and environmental quality.
Basic concepts of the system for regulating environmental quality and anthropogenic impact. Types of standardization (sanitary and hygienic, environmental, based on acceptable risk). Hazard classes of pollutants. Toxicity of substances. Standardization of water, air, soil, food quality. Standardization of sources of influence. Scientific and technical standards. Best available technology.

Topic 3. Environmental monitoring of atmospheric air in an urban environment.
Ambient air monitoring. Assessment of atmospheric air quality. Air quality standards and pollution indicators. Objectives of the atmospheric air monitoring system. Stationary, route and mobile observation posts. Automatic monitoring of stationary emission sources. Snow cover monitoring.

Topic 4. Environmental monitoring of water bodies in the urban environment.
Environmental monitoring of water bodies. Goals of state monitoring of water bodies. Types of monitoring (regime, operational, background, special). Spatial levels of monitoring (local, territorial, basin, federal). Basic principles of organizing and conducting routine observations. Categories of observation points and types of programs performed. Background observations. Operational monitoring system. Remote and contact observations. Special types of observations.

Topic 5. Ecological monitoring of soils in the urban environment.
Environmental monitoring of soils. Pollution monitoring and agrochemical monitoring. Specific tasks of soil environmental monitoring. Soil condition indicators. Sanitary and epidemiological requirements for the quality of soils in populated areas and agricultural soils. Assessment of the level of chemical contamination of soils. Organization of soil quality control.

Topic 6. Ecological monitoring of biotic components of the urban environment.
Ecological and ecosystem functions of vegetation. Objectives of vegetation cover monitoring. Basic parameters for assessing the state of vegetation. Methods for detecting chemical contamination of vegetation. Environmental monitoring of the composition and vital activity of various ecological and systematic groups of plants and animals in order to identify anthropogenic pollution of the natural environment. Methods for identifying chemical contamination of ecosystem components based on vegetation cover. Use of bioindicators in monitoring air pollution and surface water quality. Monitoring of greening objects in cities. Methods for predicting changes in urban ecosystems based on the state of biotic components.

Topic 7. Monitoring, regulation and waste management.
Waste classifications. The influence of waste from various industrial sectors on the environmental situation in industrial centers of the Russian Federation. MSW waste – composition, monitoring of landfills (waste gases, leachate, soils). Monitoring waste accumulation sites. Production and consumption waste management. Extended producer responsibility.

Topic 8. Industrial environmental monitoring and industrial environmental control.
Industrial environmental control. Industrial environmental monitoring. Goals and objectives of industrial environmental monitoring. Structure of production monitoring. Primary accounting and reporting of enterprises. Interaction of state and industrial environmental monitoring.

Topic 9. Assessing the risk to public health based on the results of environmental monitoring.
Environmental risk management. Definition of the concept, purpose of the management procedure. General scheme of the environmental risk management process. Optimization of environmental risk. Calculation of the risk of threat to human health caused by pollutants: the concept of additional risk; calculation of risk when exposed to threshold and non-threshold pollutants; features of risk calculation for the effects of immediate toxic manifestations and the risk of chronic intoxication.

Topic 10. Measures to reduce the impact of negative factors of the urban environment on public health.
Russian and international green building standards. The concept of “green” office and “green” jobs. Methods for implementing green office standards in cities. Green procurement. Health-saving technologies. Environmental management. Environmental Safety. Environmental education.