Landscape reclamation and ecosystem services

DSP graduates will gain broad transdisciplinary knowledge and competencies for assessing the state of the landscape and for solving problems of restoration of the disturbed landscape and ecosystem services. They will understand it from the perspective of environmental protection as well as from an economic perspective, including reflection of the regulatory environment. Graduates will be prepared to systematically evaluate ecosystem services in the landscape, especially on the basis of understanding important ecosystem processes. They will also able to evaluate the various ecosystem functions of the landscape in relation to key economic activities, assess the links between the state of the environment, ecosystems and human activities. Graduates will be able to implement independent basic and applied research, prepare and lead research projects and propose system measures and comprehensive arrangements to increase biodiversity and ecological stability of the disturbed cultural landscape and verify implemented solutions, including evaluation of their economic and social impacts.