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Sustainable Production and Consumption

Type of study Follow-up Master
Language of instruction Czech
Code 546-0801/02
Abbreviation UVS
Course title Sustainable Production and Consumption
Credits 5
Coordinating department Department of Environmental Engineering
Course coordinator Ing. Jana Kodymová, Ph.D.

Osnova předmětu

1. Global material and energy flows for production and consumption, visible and hidden exploration of sources (Hidden backpack)
2. Influence on primary sources consumption in production – ecodesign, cleaner production
3. Substitution of primary sources by secondary ones – reuse, recycling
4. Tools for improvement of material recycling share – legislative, financial
5. Management of end-of-life waste collection and treatment
6. Sustainable consumption from producers’ point of view – ecoefficiency
7. Sustainable consumption from consumers’ point of view – ecological footprint, consumption patterns
8. Consumers’ access to information about environmental characteristics of product.
9. Legislative, economical and informational tools for individual consumption regulation
10.Tools for regulation of public consumption
11.Environmental ethics
12.Municipality support to sustainable consumption. Participation of NGO’s in SCP support.
13.Environmental education for sustainable consumption

Povinná literatura

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.pd
ASHBY, M. F., Didac FERRER I BALAS and Jordi SEGALÀS. [2016]. Materials and sustainable development. Amsterdam: Elsevier/BH.

Doporučená literatura

Web sources: www.mzp.cz,www.cemc.cz,www.cenia.cz
Various scientific journals
http://ec.europa.eu/environment/green-growth/index_en.htm
Resource Efficiency (www.unido.org)
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