MDUGI Master Program

Perceived Benefits and Costs of Owning a Pet in a Megapolis: An Ecosystem Services Perspective Ongoing urbanization has led to a significant increase in the number of pets and has altered the relationships between pets and owners from primarily utilitarian to cultural (e.g., entertainment and health improvement). Existing classifications of ecosystem services (ES) (e.g., CICES) and nature’s...

Ecosystem Services Valuation Database (ESVD) - Launch Webinar This webinar took place on 14 October 2021 and introduced the Ecosystem Services Valuation Database. If you would like to learn more about the database, her...

SUN lab proposed a plan on green infrastructure development of Cherepovets city

The Smart Urban Nature laboratory worked as a consultant to the “Yauza project” bureau and developed a project for the spatial development of the city of Cherepovets striving for a reasonable balance between the purpose of the object, the needs of people and the environment.
Thus, the main goal in developing the concept was to bring nature to the city to create a comfortable living environment. With the proximity of major roads, the impact of the urban heat island, and the increasing number of extreme weather events associated with climate change, the regulatory functions of green infrastructure seem to be the most significant to assess and implement in the city development.

See more at SUN Lab webpage: https://sunlab.rudn.ru/sun-lab-experts-made-a-plan-on-development-of-green-infrastructure-of-cherepovets.html

Welcome to 3MUGIS Online Summer School! We unite urban nature 🌳 and modern technologies 💻, best scientists 👨‍🔬 and practitioners 👩🏾‍🌾. We are looking for new ideas, new collaborations, new solutions for green and sustainable cities 🏡 Become a part of our team! 😉

We continue presenting our professors in Italy and Russia. One of the them is Dr. Kristina V. Ivashchenko.
Researcher at Carbon and Nitrogen Soil Cycles Lab, Institute of Physicochemical and Biological Problems in Soil Science, RAS.
Researcher at RUDN laboratory “Smart technologies for sustainable development of urban environment in the conditions of global change” (Moscow).
Senior Lecturer, Department of Landscape Design and Sustainable
Ecosystems, Agrarian- technological Institute, Peoples' Friendship University
of Russia.

Research interests and expertise lay in the field of terrestrial ecosystem, soil, anthropogenic transformed ecosystem, soil microbial community, microbial activity, functional diversity of soil microbes, soil CO2 emission.

Dr. Ivashchenko is teaching the following courses: Urban Ecology, Data analysis
and statistics in ecology and landscape study in R.

Second-year students go to study at the University of Tuscia (Italy). Students studying at the Department of Innovation and Ecology in Forestry (DIBAF) of University of Tuscia, which is recognized among the top 3 Italian research institutions in forestry, environmental and food science.