616-2023 – Environmental Protection (OŽP)

Gurantor departmentDepartment of Environmental Protection in Industry
Subject guarantorDr. Ing. Stanislav Bartusek
Study levelundergraduate or graduate
Subject version
Version codeYear of introductionYear of cancellationCredits
616-2023/01 2019/2020 4

Subject aims expressed by acquired skills and competences

- student will receive environmental knowledge and will be able to explain the importance of basic concepts such as pollution and contaminated environments, ecotoxicity, persistence, bioaccumulation, pollutants, sustainable development. - student will be able to characterize the basic processes that lead to pollution of the environment (natural and anthropogenic) and to understand currently implemented corrective measures - student will be able to formulate the basic problems related to environmental protection - student will be able to apply their theoretical knowledge in other subjects studied - student will be able to find possible solutions to the requirements for sustainable development with regard to their continuing professional profiling - on the examples of various theoretical and practical knowledge student will be able to demonstrate procedures leading to minimization of negative impacts

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Summary

The subject provides basic knowledge in ecology and environmental protection. It is an introductory subject for the study and application of this issue in further studies in follow-up technical subjects. Students are acquainted with procedures in environmental protection as a whole, but also protection of individual environmental compartments.

Compulsory literature:

CURRAN, Mary Ann. Environmental life-cycle assessment. New York: McGraw-Hill, c1996. ISBN 0-07-015063-X. ADAMS, William Mark. Future nature: a vision for conservation. London: Earthscan, 1996. ISBN 1-85383-304-5. KUMMEL, P.; POPP, S.: Umvelt chemie. 1. Aufl. Leipzig, Deutscher verlag für Grundstoffindustrie, 1988, 312 p. ISBN 3-342-00313-8.

Recommended literature:

FARMER Andrew. Handbook of environmental protection & Enforcement. Principles and practices. Edited by Earthscan, UK and USA, 2007, ISBN-13, 978-1-84407-309-2.

Prerequisities

Subject has no prerequisities.

Co-requisities

Subject has no co-requisities.