SUBJECT
Environmental science synthesis
lecture
master
2
Semester 4
Spring semester
Information content: Environmental problems in the headlines of the news: complex evaluation of environmental problems – aspects of biology, chemistry, materials science and society.
Topics covered:
Environmental problems (e.g., red sludge disaster at Devecser, asbestos plant problem at Selyp, asbestos-bearing hazardous waste deposition in Várpalota, Paks 2 power plant) in the news.
Topics are selected together, then students need to study research papers, make themselves ppt presentations of certain aspects of environmental problems, form a personal opinion on the given problem and wherever possible, offer theoretical solution.
Actual headlines from the Hungarian (and international) news + topic-related papers from current environmental science journals. https://www.sciencenews.org/