546-0136/01 – Climate Change and Water Management (KZVH)
| Gurantor department | Department of Environmental Engineering | Credits | 3 |
| Subject guarantor | Ing. Petra Malíková, Ph.D. | Subject version guarantor | Ing. Petra Malíková, Ph.D. |
| Study level | undergraduate or graduate | Requirement | Choice-compulsory type B |
| Year | 3 | Semester | winter |
| | Study language | Czech |
| Year of introduction | 2020/2021 | Year of cancellation | |
| Intended for the faculties | HGF | Intended for study types | Bachelor |
Subject aims expressed by acquired skills and competences
The aim of the course is to introduce students with the issue of rational water management, both in its environment and its sources and in its use in connection with climate change.
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Summary
The course deals with the rational management of water, both in the environment of water and its sources and in its use. The aim is to provide the basics of general, systemic understanding of this issue, interrelationships and connections, possibilities and methods of management, ability to analyze and solve specific problems in connection with climate change, its mitigation or adaptation.
Compulsory literature:
Recommended literature:
Water in the city - Methodology for rainwater management in relation to green infrastructure. ČVUT Praha 2021, 204 str. [online]. 2021 [cit. 2021-10-24]. Dostupné z: https://vodavemeste.cz
EEA 2020 signals - Europe towards zero pollution. ISBN: 978-92-9480-336-8. [online]. 2021 [cit. 2021-10-24]. Dostupné z: https://www.eea.europa.eu/cs/publications/evropa-smerem-k-nulovemu-znecisteni
Catalog of nature-friendly measures for water retention in the landscape - Annex 1, activities to support the performance of state administration in the field of drought. VÚV TGM. 2018. [online]. 2021 [cit. 2021-10-24]. Dostupné z: http://www.suchovkrajine.cz/sites/default/files/vystup/p1_katalog_opatreni_0.pdf
BLANCHE, V. Learning to Live with Climate Change. Taylor & Francis; Routledge, 2022. ISBN: 978-0-367-44126-5. DOI: 10.4324/9780367441265
Way of continuous check of knowledge in the course of semester
Presentation of seminar papers, discussion of the curriculum.
Study results will be verified in a combined way (test and oral supplementation). The course is completed by graded credit.
E-learning
Other requirements
Compulsory participation in exercises.
In the exercises, activity, independence, the ability to search and process information incl. foreign sources.
Prerequisities
Subject has no prerequisities.
Co-requisities
Subject has no co-requisities.
Subject syllabus:
1. Anthropocene - consequences and causes for cycles on a global and local scale.
2. Climate change - causes and consequences, skepticism and evidence (Paris Agreement, Green Agreement for Europe).
3. Availability of freshwater resources, lack of water, onslaught on water resources, structure of water consumption in the world and in the Czech Republic. Water footprint - balance and impact approach, virtual water.
4. Drought - examples, preparatory measures against drought and examples of measures taken during drought and water scarcity.
5. Regulatory measures in case of drought - interconnection of water mains, increasing of water reservoir volumes.
6. Water and water balance and drought.
7. Flood information system POVIS and digital flood plans.
8. Thermal pollution, dissolved oxygen in waters - importance, support of fish life, legislative and technical solutions.
9. Acidification and trophization of water - causes, impacts, possible ways of solution.
10. Progressive and economical irrigation systems.
11. Hydric reclamation - effects on microclimate, air quality, water and soil ecosystems.
12. Drainage structures - effects on microclimate, water and soil ecosystems and solutions in relation to drought.
13. Mitigation and adaptation measures, legislative and technical solutions. International cooperation in the field of water management, current goals of international and national river basin management plans, water management planning in the context of climate change
Conditions for subject completion
Occurrence in study plans
Occurrence in special blocks
Assessment of instruction