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INTERINSTITUTIONAL POSTGRADUATE PROGRAM NKUA-HCMR
OCEANOGRAPHY AND MANAGEMENT OF THE MARINE ENVIRONMENT
MANAGEMENT OF THE MARINE ENVIRONMENT
- Basic principles, definitions, concepts of environmental management (Sustainable development, Blue growth, Biodiversity, Ecosystem Approach).
- Necessity of environmental management and sustainable development.
- Management types, planning, schemes, techniques and concepts.
- Historical evolution of environmental management.
- Environmental studies on which management is based.
- Management tools (institutional, technological, financial, social).
- Management of marine protected areas.
- Protection of endangered species.
- Minimum sustainable population.
- Integrated Coastal Zone Management.
- Sustainable management of wetlands and deltaic systems.
- National – European legislation for the protection, management and exploitation of the marine environment.
- International conventions.
- Marine Strategy Framework Directive, Marine Spatial Planning.
- Dealing with marine pollution, remediation measures, monitoring alternatives.
- Management of swimming areas.
- Water from the sea – desalination.
- Salt production.
- Energy from renewable marine sources.
- Minerals from the sea bottom.
- Marine phosphorites.
- Manganese and iron nodules.
- Methane hydrates.
- Introduction to Operational Oceanography.
- The technological component of operational oceanography.
- The forecasting component of operational oceanography.
- Applications in the Greek seas.