040-0605/01 – Introduction to Environmental Management (ÚdEM)
| Gurantor department | Department of Occupational and Process Safety | Credits | 3 |
| Subject guarantor | Ing. Jana Suchánková, Ph.D. | Subject version guarantor | Ing. Jana Suchánková, Ph.D. |
| Study level | undergraduate or graduate | Requirement | Choice-compulsory type B |
| Year | 1 | Semester | summer |
| | Study language | Czech |
| Year of introduction | 2020/2021 | Year of cancellation | |
| Intended for the faculties | FBI | Intended for study types | Bachelor |
Subject aims expressed by acquired skills and competences
The goal of the course unit is to provide student with a basic overview of environmental issues related to environmental protection, environmental threats and environmental management.
The student will be able to exclude and describe partial environmental problems and threats in relation to the environmental compartments concerned and studen will be able to critically evaluate environmental problems in relation to their circumstances of origin, currently implemented measures for their solution, etc.
Teaching methods
Lectures
Individual consultations
Tutorials
Summary
The course provides a basic overview of the environment, includes environmental protection, the environmental threats and environmental management. Environmental aspects (that may affect the environment) and environmental impacts (negative and positive) are presented.
(There are presented environmental aspects, which can influence the environment and there are presented environmental impacts, ie changes in the environment (negative and positive) that can occur as a result of human activity.)
Compulsory literature:
Recommended literature:
Way of continuous check of knowledge in the course of semester
Forma ověření studijních výsledků je kombinovaná a to jak ústní, tak písemná. Student dále v rámci předmětu zpracovává semestrální práci, kterou také prezentuje v rámci cvičení.
E-learning
Other requirements
At least 80 % attendance at seminars. Absence of a maximum of 20% must be excused and the excuse must be accepted by the teacher (the teacher decides on the justification of the excuse). Continuous submission of tasks assigned to the exercises in terms and scope required by the teacher.
Prerequisities
Subject has no prerequisities.
Co-requisities
Subject has no co-requisities.
Subject syllabus:
1. Introduction to environmental protection
2. Sustainable development
3. Global view of environmental management
4. Environmental threats
5. Climate change
6. Disaster risk reduction
7. Threats associated with the extraction and processing of natural resources
8. Problems of water management
9. Problems of air pollution
10. Problems of land management
11. Waste and environment
12. Environmental Management System (EMS)
13. Human lifestyle and environmental protection
Conditions for subject completion
Occurrence in study plans
Occurrence in special blocks
Assessment of instruction