118-0409/02 – Ecological Policy of Municipalities and Regions (EPOK)
| Gurantor department | Department of Regional and Environmental Economics | Credits | 3 |
| Subject guarantor | doc. Ing. Magdaléna Drastichová, Ph.D. | Subject version guarantor | RNDr. Osvald Milerski, CSc. |
| Study level | undergraduate or graduate | Requirement | Choice-compulsory |
| Year | | Semester | summer |
| | Study language | Czech |
| Year of introduction | 2011/2012 | Year of cancellation | 2012/2013 |
| Intended for the faculties | EKF | Intended for study types | Bachelor |
Subject aims expressed by acquired skills and competences
•To judge and recommend the basic directions of the local and regional ecological policy in connection with the minimization of negative influences of anthropogenic activity on the environment
• To judge and recommend such development of towns which will not endanger the fulfillment of town's main functions, but on the contrary it will contribute to the increase of citizens' quality of life and to the overall attractiveness of the town
• To recommend and formulate within the regional ecological policy such utilization of country landscape which will not endanger its ecological stability and renewable quality of natural resources
Teaching methods
Lectures
Seminars
Summary
The subject acquaints students with the most topical issues of municipal and regional ecological policy in the Czech Republic and their solution in the conditions of membership in the European Union. Students will be informed on the principles of towns' sustainable development, especially on organic waste management and sustainable transport development. The subject furthermore deals with the new trends of rural areas development and sustainable management in the countryside. Attention is paid to the changing importance of forests, a new hierarchy of their functions importance, and to the principles of sustainable management of water and soil.
Compulsory literature:
EEA, 2003. Europés environment: the third assessment. Kodaň. Dostupné na: www.eea.eu.int
Recommended literature:
According to the recommendation in MOODLE instructional text mentioned in the conclusion to the chapters.
Additional study materials
Way of continuous check of knowledge in the course of semester
E-learning
Other requirements
další požadavky na studenta
Prerequisities
Subject has no prerequisities.
Co-requisities
Subject has no co-requisities.
Subject syllabus:
1. Forest as the ecosystem and its functions. Forest as a property, forest economic plans
2. Surface and underground water sources. Prevention of negative impact of extreme hydrologic situations – floods, droughts
3. Environmental aspects of agricultural land utilization. Conventional and ecological agriculture
4. Conception of the sustainable way of life in the countryside
5. Ecological principles of town development
6. Environmental interrelations of transport; Sustainable urban transport - a starting point for the solution of current transport problems
7. Strategy of municipal waste management in the CR
8 .Urban and rural climate; the use of town climate knowledge for planning practice
9. A global climate change and expected impacts on Czech regions
Conditions for subject completion
Occurrence in study plans
Occurrence in special blocks
Assessment of instruction
Předmět neobsahuje žádné hodnocení.