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Cleaner Production

Type of study Follow-up Master
Language of instruction Czech
Code 546-0294/05
Abbreviation CP
Course title Cleaner Production
Credits 5
Coordinating department Department of Environmental Engineering
Course coordinator Ing. Jana Kodymová, Ph.D.

Subject syllabus

1. History Cleaner Production (CP) in the world and us.
2. Statutory obligations for Cleaner Production - Waste Act, the Act on Integrated Prevention, National Cleaner Production Program, the State Environmental Policy.
3. Progress with CP in an industrial company - a preliminary assessment (overall analysis of inputs and outputs).
4. The plan and organization of the securities in the company - building a team, project management.
5. Analysis of substance and energy flows in the selected section - procedures, methods, sources of information.
6. Designing possible solutions - brainstorming.
7. Assessment options (feasibility study) - technical, environmental and economic evaluation.
8. Implementation options - the conditions, procedures.
9. Evaluation of results after the project implementation, feedback, maintaining the project results.
10. Use of cleaner production on a regional scale - urban projects, etc. Ecoprofit.
11. Application of CP in the management of non-manufacturing organizations - hotels, schools, hospitals. Application of CP in the management of the city / region.
12. The economic context of cleaner production - costs and revenues, environmental accounting, the use of EMS.
13. UNEP, UNIDO and their role in the development and dissemination of CP.

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. ISBN: 92-807-2717-6 
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. ISBN 9780367535155 

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. ISBN: 978-983-3895-14-4 
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