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Nature Conservation

Summary

Students will get acquainted with the issues of nature and landscape protection, including cultural aspects of its development. They will get detailed information about the development of European landscape types, basic environmental and ecological problems, biodiversity, evolution and ecological succession. Attention will also be focused on the basic biological communities of the Czech landscape, rare, invasive and expansion species of plants and animals. Students will also gain an overview of the basic legal norms that affect the protection of nature and monuments and understand the complexity of the problems associated with nature protection and environmental issues. An essential part of the course are field work and exercises.

Literature

WILSON, E. O. a J. ŽĎÁREK. Rozmanitost života: umožní poznání zákonů biodiverzity její záchranu? Praha: NLN, 1995, edice 21, sv. 7
PRIMACK, R. B. Essentials of Conservation Biology. Palgrave Macmillan, 2014. 603 p.
VAN DYKE, F. Conservation Biology: Foundations, Concepts, Applications. Springer, Dordrecht, 2008. 478 p. ISBN 978-1-4020-6891-1 
WEBER, E.Invasive Plant Species of the World: A Reference Guide to Environmental Weeds.2003. CAB International Publishing, Wallingford.

Advised literature

CAVE, C. and NEGUSSIE, E. World Heritage Conservation: The World Heritage Convention, Linking Culture and Nature for Sustainable Development. London : Routledge, 2017. 312 p.
PULLIN, A.S. Conservation Biology. Cambridge University Press, 2002. 358 p.
BANDARIN, F. and R. VAN OERS (eds.). The Historic Urban Landscape: Managing Heritage in an Urban Century. Oxford : Wiley-Blackwell, 2012. 262 p.
LOMBORG, B. The Skeptical Environmentalist: Measuring the Real State of the World. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.2001.


Language of instruction čeština, čeština
Code 546-0316
Abbreviation OPP
Course title Nature Conservation
Coordinating department Department of Environmental Engineering
Course coordinator Ing. Hana Švehláková, Ph.D.