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Landscape Water

Type of study Follow-up MasterBachelor
Language of instruction English
Code 546-0696/03
Abbreviation VvK
Course title Landscape Water
Credits 5
Coordinating department Department of Environmental Engineering
Course coordinator Ing. Jitka Chromíková, Ph.D.

Osnova předmětu

1. Introduction - water and its physico-chemical properties, the role of water in the landscape.
2. Water balance and hydrological balance of the river basin.
3. Water elements in the landscape - springs, wetlands, peat bogs, watercourses, ponds and reservoirs.
4. Revitalization and land reclamation in relation to water bodies.
5. Importance and history of irrigation, basic terms, use of irrigation
6. Types of irrigation - supplementary, fertilizers, special
7. Water demand for irrigation - calculation of irrigation quantity, data for irrigation design, source of irrigation water
8. Landscape drainage, causes of waterlogging and history of drainage
9. Main and detailed drainage equipment,
10. Special drainage equipment
11. Erosion - erosion prediction, universal USLE soil loss equation and its modification
12. Water erosion - its causes, forms, consequences, erosion control
13. Wind erosion - its causes and consequences, anti-erosion measures

Povinná literatura

ONES, J. Global Hydrology: Processes, Resources and Environmental Management. Harlow: Pearson Prentice Hall, 1997. ISBN 0-582098610
KUTILEK, M. and D. NIELSEN Soil Hydrology, Catena Verlag, Germany, 1998. ISBN 3923381263 
LAL, R. Soil Quality and Soil Erosion, CRC Press: Boca Raton, USA, 2018. ISBN 9780203739266 
AZHAR, A. H., ASHRAFF, C. N., AHMED, M. Modern Irrigation Techniques and Technologies Efficient Utilisation of Scarce Water Resources. VDM Verlag Dr. Müller GmbH, 2011. ISBN 9783639364590 
LAYCOCK, A. Irrigation systems: design, planning and construction. Wallingford, UK: CABI, 2011. 9781845938741

Doporučená literatura

JULIEN, Pierre Y. River mechanics. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 2018, 499 s. ISBN 978-1-107-46277-9 
MCCOOL, D.K. and WILLIAMS, J.D. Soil Erosion by Water. In Encyclopedia of Ecology; Jørgensen, S.E., Fath, B.D., Eds.; Academic Press: Oxford, UK, 2008. ISBN 978-0-08-045405-4 .
MORGAN, R.P. Soil Erosion and Conservation; John Wiley & Sons: Hoboken, NJ, USA, 2005. ISBN 978-1-405-14467-4 .
NEWBOLD Ch., HONNOR J., BUCKLEY K. Nature Conservation and the Management of Drainage Channels, Association of Drainage Autorities, London, 1989. ISBN 0-86139-581-6