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Regeneration of Industrial Landscape

Type of study Follow-up Master
Language of instruction English
Code 546-0165/03
Abbreviation RIK
Course title Regeneration of Industrial Landscape
Credits 4
Coordinating department Department of Environmental Engineering
Course coordinator doc. Ing. Barbara Stalmachová, CSc.

Subject syllabus

1. Introduction to the issue, basic concepts. Landscape as a complex formation and system.
2. Basic functions of the landscape in relation to man, complex landscape potential. Cultural landscape and limits of landscape load.
3. Degrees of anthropogenic landscape transformation, character of disturbed and devastated landscapes.
4. Succession, controlled succession, renaturalization, revitalization, reclamation
5. Importance of regeneration and reclamation as a process of restoration of disturbed biosphere.
6. Objects of regeneration according to types of anthropogenic deterioration of the landscape.
7. Influence and consequences of mining and industry, regeneration and reclamation after mining of raw materials and specific destructive use of the landscape.
8. The role of greenery in the landscape - forest and non-forest. Production and non-production functions of greenery in the landscape.
9. Landscape diagnosis and forecasting, sustainable development in landscape care.
10. Coordination of the revitalization process, including the time schedule and management costs.
11. Selected legal norms in the field of landscape care.
12. Basic knowledge of woody plants and herbs, Principles of use of woody plants and herbs, reclamation sowing procedures and planting plans.
13. Methods and principles of designing vegetation elements in the industrial environment - abandoned areas and restoration of their functions.

Literature

DRIESSEN, P.M., KONIJN, N.T. Land-use Systems Analysis. Wageningen Agric. 1992.
ALMO f. Principles and methods in landcape ecology. Springer Dordrecht. 2006.
FRANCE R.L. AT ALL. Handbook of Regenerative Landscape Design. CRC Press 2007. ISBN 978-0-8493-9188-0 
STALMACHOVÁ B., SIERKA E. Managed succession for reclamation of postmining landscape. Technická univerzita v Košiciach. Košice 2014. ISBN 978-80-553-1852-3 .

Advised literature

MANSOURIAN S., VALLAURI D., DUDLEY N. Forest Restoration in Landscapes. Springer New York. 2005.
SIERKA E., STALMACHOVÁ B., PIERZCHALA L., CHMURA D. Environmental and social-economic importance of subsidance reservoirs. Ben – Technická literatura, Praha 2012.
TRESS, B., TRESS, G., FRY, G., OPDAM, P. From landscape research to landscape planning: Aspects of integration, education and application. Springer. Amsterdam, 2005.
INDIVIDUAL PAPERS PUBLISHED IN FOLLOWING JOURNALS: Landscape and Urban Planning, Land Use Policy, Landscape Ecology.