• Basic principles of environmental protection
• Biodiversity conservation practices
• Solutions for water and air pollution challenges
• Major opportunities for sustainability
• How human development can be sustainable

Week 1: General Introduction and Biodiversity
Biodiversity and ecosystem functionality, biodiversity and ecosystem stability, species richness and its determinants, ecosystem services

Week 2: Conservation Biology and Reintroduction
Threats to biodiversity, extinctions, conservation strategies, conservation genetics, animal reintroduction

Week 3: Open Spaces and Agroecology
Contribution of open spaces to biodiversity, wildlife friendly farming and land sharing, scale-oriented processes, movement and survival

Week 4: Air Quality and Pollution
Dynamics of particles, air pollution and health-related problems, coagulation and filtration systems, atmospheric aerosols

Week 5: Water Quality and Reuse
Physical properties and hydrologic cycle, water quality and its major components, water use, and grey water

Week 6: Green Building
Relevance for environmental protection, building materials and their environmental impact, green building and energy saving, buildings as part of the city

Week 7: Urban Sustainability
Environmental problems at the city level, the city as an ecosystem, sustainability potential, urban metabolism, urban footprint

Week 8: Global Sustainability
From empty to full world, human well-being, socio-environmental interactions, behavior of individuals and societies, policy and planning