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Environmental strategies in the work environment

Type of study Bachelor
Language of instruction English
Code 040-0702/01
Abbreviation ESiWE
Course title Environmental strategies in the work environment
Credits 4
Coordinating department Department of Occupational and Process Safety
Course coordinator Ing. Jana Suchánková, Ph.D.

Subject syllabus

1. Reasons for the emergence of environmental protection
2. Sustainable development
3. Environmental policy
4. Introduction to environmental safety
5. Climate change
6. Disaster risk reduction
7. Voluntary protection of the environment beyond the law
8. Integrated management system
9. Waste management
10. Circular economy
11. Water management
12. Air pollution
13. Soil contamination

E-learning

Teaching materials are shared by teachers in the LMS.

Literature

UITTO, Juha I. and Rajib SHAW, ed., 2016. Sustainable Development and Disaster Risk Reduction. Tokyo: Springer Japan. Disaster Risk Reduction. ISBN 978-4-431-55077-8 . Available from: doi:10.1007/978-4-431-55078-5

LEAL FILHO, Walter, ed., 2013. Climate Change and Disaster Risk Management. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer Berlin Heidelberg. Climate Change Management. ISBN 978-3-642-31109-3. Available from: doi:10.1007/978-3-642-31110-9

BOSHER, Lee and Ksenia CHMUTINA, ed., 2017. Disaster Risk Reduction for the Built Environment. Chichester, UK: John Wiley. ISBN 9781119233015 . Available from: doi:10.1002/9781119233015

KOGER, Susan M. and Deborah DuNann WINTER, 2010. The Psychology of Environmental Problems: Psychology for Sustainability. 3rd edition. Taylor & Francis. ISBN 9780203847978 . Available from: doi:10.4324/9780203847978

Advised literature

WCED. Our Common Future. World Commission on Environment and Development, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1987.