Themes and topics for theses
- Agri-Food Business Management
- Environmental Governance and Adaptation to Climate Change
- Fisheries and applied ecology
- Horticulture
- Landscape Architecture (BSc: Environmental Planning and Landscape Design)
- Landscape Protection and Preservation
- Nature Tourism
- Production and Marketing of Agricultural Products
• Sustainable urban drainage ideas and proposals for post-war recovery in Ukraine
Supervisor: Anton Shkaruba (Estonian University of Life Sciences)
Many cities of Ukraine, including civil infrastructure and housing blocks, are suffering from shelling, and in many locations a substantial fraction of residential and industrial developments is destroyed beyond repair. As horrible as it gets, the one also can see opportunities for heavily damaged areas. Many of them have suffered from excessively dense development, and the removal of some buildings would potentially give a chance for green and blue infrastructure to develop, once the war will be over, and the recovery and restoration of war damaged settlements will be possible again. Our Chair is cooperating with several universities in the city of Kharkiv, in particular with the School of Ecology of Kharkiv V.N.Karazin National University and its PhD students exploring this issue in their doctoral thesis. One of the topics we are working on is the development of sustainable drainage systems in war-damaged areas. This issue is high in agenda because both Kharkiv and its far neighborhood the town of Chuhuiv are suffering from periodic flash floods, and any options helping to reduce pressure on their outdated storm sewer systems would be received with interest.
At the current stage it would be mostly literature review work to identify suitable options as well as collaborative work with Ukrainian PhD students to analyse the terrain and feasibility of various options. We have travel funding for visiting Ukraine that can be used once the war is over.