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Terminated in academic year 2017/2018

Water in Landscape

Type of study BachelorFollow-up Master
Language of instruction Czech
Code 541-0030/01
Abbreviation VK
Course title Water in Landscape
Credits 5
Coordinating department Department of Geological Engineering
Course coordinator doc. RNDr. Jan Unucka, Ph.D.

Subject syllabus

Water in the landscape, hydrological cycles and hydrological balance. Landscape sphere and
its structure. Water bodies, their classification and their dynamics. Small streams, small dams. Hydropedology, hydrological transformations in soil complexes. Elements of land cover and land use and their impact on the drainage conditions. Soil erosion, the possibility of its establishing and modelling. Flow adjustments and torrents damming. Water as a basic element of landscape ecology. Revitalization, Territorial System of Ecological Stability (TSES). Elements of ecology of water bodies. The study of aquatic habitats using indicator, forest typological and geobiocenological procedures. The response of hydrological systems to environmental changes. Overview of legislation framework on protection waters and landscapes.

Literature

BEDIENT, P.B., HUBER W. C. (2001): Hydrology and floodplain analysis. 2nd
edition. London, Prentice Hall. 763 s.
BROWN, A.G, QUINE, T.A. eds. (2001): Fluvial processes and environmetnal
change. Wiley, Chichester. 413 s.

Advised literature

CHANG, M. (2006): Forest hydrology. 2nd edition. London, Taylor & Francis, 474 s.
WARD, A., TRIMBLE, S. W. (2004): Environmental Hydrology. 2nd. Edition. CRC
Press & Lewis Publishers, 504 s.