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Terminated in academic year 2018/2019

Assessment of Environmental State

Type of study Doctoral
Language of instruction Czech
Code 546-0958/02
Abbreviation HSŽP
Course title Assessment of Environmental State
Credits 10
Coordinating department Department of Environmental Engineering
Course coordinator prof. Ing. Vladimír Lapčík, CSc.

Subject syllabus

The subject covers the assessment of atmospheric pollutants, assessment of water, soil, waste and assessment of physical-chemical pollution. It describes their properties, origin, environmental impacts, interactions. Pollutant and waste categorization and division. Expression of their concentrations and conversion. Assessment of their acting and impacts on human health and natural environment. Air, water and soil pollution. Global environmental pollution – acid rains, ozone layer, climate changes, smogs. Consequences of environmental deterioration. Food chain contamination. Toxicity and genotoxicity of pollutants. Persistence and bioaccumulation of pollutants.

Literature

1. LEGGE, Allan, H; KRUPA, Sagar, V. Air Pollutants and Their Effect on
Terrestrial Ecosystems. New York: John Wiley and Sons, 1986.

Advised literature

www.env.cz
www.mze.cz