Ecotoxicology and Environmental Sustainability

The course provides the student with in-depth knowledge in the fields of ecotoxicology and sustainability analyzes and environmental management. The sustainability of human actions can be assessed from two points of view: the first which goes in the direction of making the resources used increasingly renewable, the second which aims to minimize the effects of human actions on the environment.
The course of study is developed on three levels: a theoretical-epistemological one, to understand the complexity of natural and anthropic systems and investigate their scientific bases; a second, more practical, to develop environmental monitoring and evaluation techniques and indicators, study transformation processes, ecosystems, and territorial and economic systems. The third level allows us to acquire an overall vision, to prefigure economic development scenarios based on what the American ecologist H. Odum defines as "prosperity without growth"