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Current State and Development of Environment in Czech Republic

Type of study Bachelor
Language of instruction English
Code 546-0342/09
Abbreviation SVŽP
Course title Current State and Development of Environment in Czech Republic
Credits 3
Coordinating department Department of Environmental Engineering
Course coordinator doc. Ing. Iva Janáková, Ph.D.

Subject syllabus

1. Causes of environmental changes and influencing factors (settlements and migration of population, territorial distribution of population, demographic development)
2. Production and consumption (gross domestic product, people’s expenditures, employment, agriculture, industry, power engineering, building industry, transport, travel)
3. Waste, old ecological burdens, changes of climate
4. State and development of environment constituents - air (situation with emissions and immissions, operation of smog-warning and regulation systems, meteorological conditions)
5. State and development of environment constituents - water (hydrological and meteorological conditions, water quality, water use, water management, sources of pollution)
6. State and development of environment constituents - soil and rock environment
7. State and development of environment constituents- forests
8. State and development of environment constituents - nature and landscape (conservation of nature and landscape, Natura 2000, financial instruments to support conservation of nature and landscape)
9. physical field (state of the ozone layer over the Czech Republic, radiation situation, radon risk, noise, non-ionizing electromagnetic radiation and electric and magnetic field)
10. Environment and health (health state of the population, extraneous matter in the food chain)
11. Environmental policy tools (economic instruments, environmental expenditures, voluntary tools)
12. Environmental Impact Assessment – EIA/SEA and Integrated Pollution Prevention and Control – IPPC, integrated register of environmental pollution
13. Education, training, public education and work with the public in the sphere of environmental education

Literature

Report on the environment in the Czech Republic in 2020 Prague: Ministry of the Environment of the Czech Republic, 2020. ISBN 978-80-87770-68-9 .ISBN 978-80-87770-73-3 . 2020. [online] https://www.cenia.cz/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/Report_Env_CZE_2019.pdf
The European environment — state and outlook 2020 : Knowledge for transition to a sustainable Europe. 2020. [online]. https://www.eea.europa.eu/soer/publications/soer-2020

Advised literature

ISSAR: Information System for Statistics and Reporting provides statistical information about state and trends of the environment in the Czech Republic.[online]. Praha: https://issar.cenia.cz/en/.
US EPA - Database IRIS (EPA´S Integrated Risk Information System US EPA,
Office of Health and Environmental assessment).
Briggs, D., Corvalán, C., Nurminen, M, 1996 _ Linkage methods for environmental and health analysis - general guidelines, WHO/EHG/95.26, Geneva