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Preventive Approach to Environmental Protection

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Course Unit Code546-0464/02
Number of ECTS Credits Allocated5 ECTS credits
Type of Course Unit *Compulsory
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
KOD009Ing. Jana Kodymová, Ph.D.
Summary
Global ecosystem status, strategies and tools. Scenarios of global ecosystem development and its services. Tools for influencing of global ecosystem status.
Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit
Understanding of consequences in use of prevetative measures according to the global ecosystem pressure
Course Contents
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. Access to the information about environment, Aarhus convention
Recommended or Required Reading
Required Reading:
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
KOLEKTIV AUTORÚ: Ekosystémy a lidský blahobyt. Syntéza. Vydalo Centrum pro otázky životního prostředí, Univerzita Karlova Praha 2005. ISBN: 80-239-6300-7
Agenda 21. Agenda 21. www.mzp.cz/web/edice.nsf/e26dd68a7c931e61c1256fbe0033a4ee/b56f757c1507c286c12570500034ba62?OpenDocument.
Strategický rámec ČR 2030 (https://www.mzp.cz/cz/udrzitelny_rozvoj),Státní politika ŽP (https://www.mzp.cz/cz/statni_politika_zivotniho_prostredi)
Internet: www.wbcsd.org, www.unido.org, www.unep.org, www.who.org,
www.mzp.cz, www.cemc.cz
Recommended Reading:
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
Internet – stránky MŽP (www.mzp.cz), CENIA (www.cenia.cz), CEMC
(www.cemc.cz), SZÚ (www.szu.cz), www.narodniportal.cz/csr-v-cr/
Odborné časopisy ((ScienceDirect přes univesritní knihovnu)
RYDÉN Lars,Pawel MIGULA and Magnus ANDERSSON (eds.): Environmental Science. Understanding, protecting and managing the environment in the Baltic Sea Region. Editors: . BUP Uppsala 2003 (http://www2.balticuniv.uu.se/bup-3/index.php/public/textbooks-course-materials/course-materials/environmental-science)
ISO normy 14000, EMAS
Planned learning activities and teaching methods
Lectures, Seminars, Individual consultations, Tutorials, Project work
Assesment methods and criteria
Task TitleTask TypeMaximum Number of Points
(Act. for Subtasks)
Minimum Number of Points for Task Passing
Graded creditGraded credit100 51