040-0702/01 – Environmental strategies in the work environment (ESiWE)
| Gurantor department | Department of Occupational and Process Safety | Credits | 4 |
| Subject guarantor | Ing. Jana Suchánková, Ph.D. | Subject version guarantor | Ing. Jana Suchánková, Ph.D. |
| Study level | undergraduate or graduate | Requirement | Compulsory |
| Year | 1 | Semester | winter |
| | Study language | English |
| Year of introduction | 2022/2023 | Year of cancellation | |
| Intended for the faculties | FBI | Intended for study types | Bachelor |
Subject aims expressed by acquired skills and competences
The learning outcomes of this course contribute to developing the following graduate attributes:
- Apply discipline knowledge, principles and concepts. (Apply discipline knowledge; understand its theoretical underpinnings, and ways of thinking).
- Think critically, creatively & reflectively. (Apply logical and rational processes to analyse the components of an issue. Think creatively to generate creative solutions).
- Access, evaluate & synthesise information. (Decide what information is needed and where it might be found using appropriate technologies. Make valid judgments and synthesise information from a range of sources).
- Recognise and apply international perspective. (Think globally and consider issues from a variety of perspectives. Apply local and international standards and practices within professional area).
- Demonstrate environmental awareness and understanding.
- Apply professional skills.
Teaching methods
Lectures
Tutorials
Project work
Summary
The course focuses on the interactions between the environment and humans with regard to the issue of environmental protection and potential security threats. Although environmental safety does not currently have a fixed definition, it includes many current topics. The distribution of environmental threats is presented and several of them are analyzed in detail. The content of specific thematic areas is chosen to present to students the issue as a whole - the affected areas of the environment, the solution of the issue in strategic and legislative documents of a national or international character, the implementation of preventive or corrective measures, etc.
Compulsory literature:
Recommended literature:
WCED. Our Common Future. World Commission on Environment and Development, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1987.
Way of continuous check of knowledge in the course of semester
To make semester report on the specified topic in the prescribed treatment.
E-learning
Other requirements
Systematic separate preparation during the semester.
Continuous handing in of tasks assigned in the exercise within the terms and scope set by the teacher.
At least 85 % participation in exercises (possible 2 absences). The teacher decides on the acceptance of an excused absence.
Prerequisities
Subject has no prerequisities.
Co-requisities
Subject has no co-requisities.
Subject syllabus:
1. Reasons for the emergence of environmental protection
2. Sustainable development
3. Environmental policy
4. Introduction to environmental safety
5. Climate change
6. Disaster risk reduction
7. Voluntary protection of the environment beyond the law
8. Integrated management system
9. Waste management
10. Circular economy
11. Water management
12. Air pollution
13. Soil contamination
Conditions for subject completion
Occurrence in study plans
Occurrence in special blocks
Assessment of instruction
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