Terminated in academic year 2014/2015

Preventive Approach to Environmental Protection

Type of study	Follow-up Master
Language of instruction	Czech
Code	546-0464/01
Abbreviation	PPZP
Course title	Preventive Approach to Environmental Protection
Credits	5
Coordinating department	Department of Environmental Engineering
Course coordinator	RNDr. Alena Labodová, Ph.D.

Subject syllabus

1. Environmental protection – evolution of approaches
2. Global ecosystem – MA, biodiversity, ecosystem services, scenarios of development
3. Global scenarios of sustainable development and their application
4. Sustainable development in EU policy and State Environmental Policy CR
5. Tools of SD policy for companies (CP. EMS, product tools)
6. IPPC
7. CSR
8. Sustainable production and consumption
9. SD policy tools for the city/region
10. Local Agenda 21, SD indicators
11. Environmental risk assessment, environmental impact of major industrial accidents
12. Environmental health, NEHAP
13. IT technologies in environmental protection
14. Access to the information about environment, Aarhus convention

Literature

Millennium Ecosystem Assessment. Ecosystems and Human Well-being: Synthesis,
published in 2005 by Island Press. (http://www.millenniumassessment.org/documents/document.356.aspx.pdf)
Environmental Science. Understanding, protecting and managing the environment in the Baltic Sea Region. Editors: Lars Rydén, Pawel Migula and Magnus Andersson. BUP Uppsala 2003 (http://www2.balticuniv.uu.se/bup-3/index.php/public/textbooks-course-materials/course-materials/environmental-science)
Web sources: www.wbcsd.org, www.unido.org, www.unep.org, www.who.org,
www.mzp.cz, www.cemc.cz,
Agenda 21. https://sustainabledevelopment.un.org/content/documents/Agenda21.pdf

Advised literature

Millennium Ecosystem Assessment Ecosystems and Human Well-being: Synthesis,
published in 2005 by Island Press. (http://www.millenniumassessment.org/documents/document.356.aspx.pdf)
Internet (WBCSD, GRI, WHO)
Various scientific journals (ScienceDirect via university library)
ISO norms 14000, EMAS

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