A department of Monitoring, Use of Nature and Emergency Prevention is structural subdivision of ecological faculty of the Kharkiv national university of the name of В.Н. Каразіна, which provides preparation :

• bachelors of direction of preparation a 6.040106 "Ecology, Environmental Protection and Sustainable Use of Nature" and "Labour Protection";
• specialists and master's degrees of speciality 7.0708.01 and a 8.0708.01 "Ecology and guard of environment".

A department is formed in 2007.

In professor composition departments enter:

1. Baluk Svyatoslav A. - doctor of agricultural sciences, professor, academician ААН Ukraine
2. Maksymenko Nadiya V. - candidate of geographical sciences, associate professor,
3. Kochanov Eduard O. - candidate of soldiery sciences, associate professor,
4. Vasilovskij Vitalij V. - candidate of medical sciences, associate professor,
5. Gololobova Olena O. is a candidate of agricultural sciences, associate professor,
6. Ryabenkij Arsenij V. is a century teacher
7. Shuprova Olga M. is a century teacher

Educational - the auxiliary personnel of department is presented:

1. Моrgun Svitlana H. is an engineer of a 1 category
2. Melnik Dmytro O. is a century laboratory assistant
3. Gubareva Viktoriya S. is a laboratory assistant.

Disciplines which are read on a department:

• Meteorology and climatology
• General hydrology
• Landscape study
• Ecology of productive and unproductive sphere
• Monitoring of soils
• Ecolaw
• Setting of norms of the anthropogenic loading is on a natural environment
• Organization of management is in ecological activity
• Nature protection inspection
• A cartographic method is in ecology
• Design and prognostication of the state of environment.
• Ecological safety
• Management ecological safety
• Ecological meteorology and climatology
• Landscape ecology
• Ecological demography
• Geographic information systems
• Bases of ecological risk
• Modern methods of determination of ecological risk
• Management ecological safety
• Theory of catastrophes
• Planning of experimental researches
• Facilities of balanced природокористування of агросфери
• Scientifically - practical seminar 1

The teachers of department manage educational practices:

1. Maksimenko Nadiya V.:

• I part "Meteorological researches" And to the stage of general-ecological practice of students of a 1 course in NNP "Gomalshanski the forests" (Zmiivskij district of the Kharkiv area);
• ІІ the stage of general-ecological practice of students of a 1 course in ARE Crimea.

2. Gololobova Olena O. - And the stage of landscape-ecological practice of students of 2 courses in the Kharkiv area;

3. Ryabenkij Arsenij V. - ІІ the stage of landscape-ecological practice of students of 2 courses in Carpathians;

By productive practice of students lead a 5 course Shuprova Olga Mykola and Maksimenko Nadiya Vasyl. Practice is conducted in organizations and establishments of Ukraine. Mainly, it is State administrations of guard of natural environment in areas, State ecological inspections in the areas of Ukraine, ННЦ "Institute of soil science and agricultural chemistry of the name of О. Н. Соколовського", УкрНДІ of the Ecological problems et al.

Research work which is executed on a department embraces such subjects :

• Monitoring of the ecological state of components and complexes of environment;
• Analysis of fractal properties of environment;
• Agro-ecological;
• Ecological meteorology and ecology of atmospheric air.

A department is organizer realization in the Kharkiv national university of the name of V.N. Karazin of annual conference Allukrainian scientific Taliev’s of reading. Six conferences at performances on which Collection of the articles is given out "Guard of environment" are already conducted.

Educator work is the inalienable constituent of work of department :

The employees of department, which are counsels (Gololobova Olena O. are 2 courses; Maksymenko N.V. are 3 courses; Ryabenkij Arsenij V. are 4 courses) regularly conduct counsel hours, visit dormitories, participate in cultural and mass measures, that conducts a faculty;

Teachers are a department actively conduct advertising work:

• prepare Days of the unclosed doors, Day of graduating student,
• work in the Small academy of sciences with the gifted schoolboys,
• enter in the complement of judge of school competitions of the advanced studies and olympiads
• give lectures at "School of young environmentalist".