Terminated in academic year 2011/2012

Cleaner Production

Type of study	Follow-up Master
Language of instruction	Czech
Code	546-0294/02
Abbreviation	CP
Course title	Cleaner Production
Credits	6
Coordinating department	Department of Environmental Engineering
Course coordinator	RNDr. Alena Labodová, Ph.D.

Subject syllabus

1. The history of Cleaner Production (CP) worldwide and/or in CR
2. Legislative obligations in CR in CP – waste legislation, IPPC, The National CP Programme, The State Environmental Policy
3. Process of CP implementation in industrial plant – preliminary assessment (total input/output analysis)
4. Planning and organisation of CP in the enterprise - team formation and project control
5. The analysis of material and energy flows in selected area – methods, sources of information
6. The generation of variants for solving the problems - brainstorming
7. Feasibility study – assessment of variants (technical, environmental, economical)
8. Realisation of variants – conditions, methods
9. Assessment of project results after realisation, feedback, maintaining of project results
10. Application of CP in regional measure – city projects, Ecoprofit
11. Application of CP in non-production organisations – hotels, schools, hospitals
12. Application of CP to city/region control
13. Economical consequences of CP project – costs and benefits, environmental accounting, application to EMS
14. UNEP, UNIDO and their input to development and dissemination of CP

Exercise/seminar: tables for preliminary assessment, material flow analysis, brainstorming, Fun Factory (simulation game)

Literature

NILSSON,L., PERSSON,P.O., RYDÉN, L., DOROZHKO, S., ZALIAUSKIENE,A.: Cleaner
Production (book 2 v serii Environmental Management BUP). Baltic University
Press 2007, ISBN 91-975526-1-5
UNEP. Environmental Agreements and Cleaner Production. United Nations Environment Programme, 2006.
IVAM. Cleaner Production Manual. IVAM, 2008.
Jayasinghe G. Y.; Maheepala S. S.; Wijekoon P.Ch. Green Productivity and Cleaner Production: A Guidebook for Sustainability. CRC Press, 2022.

Advised literature

PRE-SME – Promoting Resource Efficiency in Small & Medium Sized Enterprises.
Industrial training handbook. United Nations Environment Programme 2010, www.unep.org (electronic version available at lecturer)
Department of Environment, Ministry of Natural Resources & Environment Malaysia. Cleaner Production A Do It Yourself Manual. Department of Environment, Malaysia, 2010.
US EPA: Principlles of Pollution Prevention and Cleaner Production.
An International Training Course. 1999 (electronic version at lecturer)
Manual on the Development of Cleaner Production Policies — Approaches and Instruments. UNIDO CP Programme, Vienna 2002

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