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Integrated prevention and environmental impact assessment

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Course Unit Code616-3037/01
Number of ECTS Credits Allocated5 ECTS credits
Type of Course Unit *Optional
Level of Course Unit *Second Cycle
Year of Study *Second Year
Semester when the Course Unit is deliveredWinter Semester
Mode of DeliveryFace-to-face
Language of InstructionCzech
Prerequisites and Co-Requisites Course succeeds to compulsory courses of previous semester
Name of Lecturer(s)Personal IDName
BAR80Dr. Ing. Stanislav Bartusek
Summary
Students will get acquainted with the basic principles of environmental assessment and then with procedures leading to remediation in accordance with the concept of sustainable development. In the process of assessing the impact of concepts and plans and integrated prevention, the maximum possible prevention from industrial pollution of all environmental compartments will be applied. To do so, professional, legislative and further legal knowledge covered by the various chapters of this subject will be used.
Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit
-the student will be able to orient himself in the basic principles for environmental impact assessment and the requirements of integrated prevention for major environmental polluters
-the student will be able to analyse the environmental aspects of industrial technologies
-the student will be able to make a selection of the best available techniques
-the student will be able to handle the basic application for an integrated permit
-the student will know the basic needs for the processing of the EIA documentation
Course Contents
1. Quality of the Environment compared with other countries, priority to improving the state of the environment.
2. Types and sources of public environmental support.
3. Environmental damage as a measurable change in a natural resource and its functions, prevention, corrective action.
4. Tools for the care of the environment.
5. Indicators as a tool for identification and description of the problems in the environment, basic requirements, classification and systems, concept of making, key indicators by major topics, the state of the environment in the context DPSIR model.
6. Environmental assessment in successive steps.
7. Legislation in the processes of assessment and plans, integrated prevention.
8. Principles of integrated prevention, the conditions for granting of an integrated permit.
9. Territorial plans and related legislation.
10. Strategic Assessment of concepts influence - SEA, objectives, outcome, projects subjected to the process, course.
11. Assessment of the effects of projects on the environment - EIA, content and severity of the process, evaluation of semence of decision-making processes. Assessment of transboundary impacts.
12. Health risk assessment in the impact assessment - a conceptual model of the determinants of health, HIA, HRA.
13. Protection of human health and environment, assessment and management of risks at industrial enterprises - REACH , CLP. ECHA (European Environment Agency ) and its environment.
14. Dispersion studies in the EIA, the modeling of physical pollution - noise study.
15. Nature conservation in the evaluation process influences, Natura 2000 biocorridors.
Recommended or Required Reading
Required Reading:
PETRŽÍLEK, Petr, TICHÁ, Tereza, ed. Předpisy o integrované prevenci a omezování znečištění. Praha: ABF, a.s., Nakladatelství ARCH, 2003. ISBN 80-86165-68-X.
ADAMEC, Vl., BARTUSEK, S. a kol: Environmentální technologie a ekoinovace v České republice II. Praha: CENIA, 2010, 135 s. ISBN 978-80-85087-90-1.
WATHERN, Peter, ed. Environmental impact assessment: theory and practice. London: Routledge, 1992. ISBN 0-415-07884-9.
PETRŽÍLEK, Petr, TICHÁ, Tereza, ed. Předpisy o integrované prevenci a omezování znečištění. Praha: ABF, a.s., Nakladatelství ARCH, 2003. ISBN 80-86165-68-X.
ADAMEC, Vl., BARTUSEK, S. a kol: Environmentální technologie a ekoinovace v České republice II. Praha: CENIA, 2010, 135 s. ISBN 978-80-85087-90-1.
WATHERN, Peter, ed. Environmental impact assessment: theory and practice. London: Routledge, 1992. ISBN 0-415-07884-9.
Recommended Reading:
KAPROVÁ K., KAŠMÍROVÁ P., KOLSKÁ K., PETKOVOVÁ L. a ŠAUER P., Veřejné podpory v ochraně životního prostředí v České republice a přístupy k jejich posuzování, CENIA 2010, ISBN: 978-80-85087-94-9.
Environmental impact assessment: practical solutions to recurrent problems. Hoboken: Wiley, 2005. ISBN 0-471-72202-2.
KAPROVÁ K., KAŠMÍROVÁ P., KOLSKÁ K., PETKOVOVÁ L. a ŠAUER P., Veřejné podpory v ochraně životního prostředí v České republice a přístupy k jejich posuzování, CENIA 2010, ISBN: 978-80-85087-94-9.
Environmental impact assessment: practical solutions to recurrent problems. Hoboken: Wiley, 2005. ISBN 0-471-72202-2.
Planned learning activities and teaching methods
Lectures, Tutorials
Assesment methods and criteria
Task TitleTask TypeMaximum Number of Points
(Act. for Subtasks)
Minimum Number of Points for Task Passing
Credit and ExaminationCredit and Examination100 (100)51
        CreditCredit20 1
        ExaminationExamination80 (80)20
                Písemná zkouškaWritten examination50 10
                Ústní zkouškaOral examination30 10