546-0342/08 – Current State and Development of Environment in Czech Republic (SVŽP)
| Gurantor department | Department of Environmental Engineering | Credits | 3 |
| Subject guarantor | doc. Ing. Iva Janáková, Ph.D. | Subject version guarantor | doc. Ing. Iva Janáková, Ph.D. |
| Study level | undergraduate or graduate | Requirement | Compulsory |
| Year | 1 | Semester | summer |
| | 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 subject Current State and Development of the Environment in the CR aims to identify the historical context of pollution of the individual constituents of the environment and to clarify damage done to them. Next, methods of their monitoring and direct measuring, including evaluation of health risks, will be demonstrated.
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Summary
After completion of the „Current State and Development of Environment in Czech
Republic“ students will understand the basic environmental processes ,
polluting agents, contamination of environment and its history.Basic
information of monitoring, biomonitorig, evaluation of risk assessment.
Compulsory literature:
Recommended literature:
ISSAR: Information System for Statistics and Reporting provides statistical information about state and trends of the environment in the Czech Republic.[online]. Praha: https://issar.cenia.cz/en/.
US EPA - Database IRIS (EPA´S Integrated Risk Information System US EPA,
Office of Health and Environmental assessment).
Briggs, D., Corvalán, C., Nurminen, M, 1996 _ Linkage methods for environmental and health analysis - general guidelines, WHO/EHG/95.26, Geneva
Way of continuous check of knowledge in the course of semester
Students will include the information acquired during a semester into their half-yearly presentations, which will react to the current topics related to the development of the environment constituents in the CR. The subject will be closed by granting a credit and by an examination.
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Other requirements
Studium of professional literature and monitoring of current information on the individual components of the environment.
Prerequisities
Subject has no prerequisities.
Co-requisities
Subject has no co-requisities.
Subject syllabus:
1. Causes of environmental changes and influencing factors (settlements and migration of population, territorial distribution of population, demographic development)
2. Production and consumption (gross domestic product, people’s expenditures, employment, agriculture, industry, power engineering, building industry, transport, travel)
3. Waste, old ecological burdens, changes of climate
4. State and development of environment constituents
- air (situation with emissions and immissions, operation of smog-warning and regulation systems, meteorological conditions)
- water (hydrological and meteorological conditions, water quality, water use, water management, sources of pollution)
- soil and rock environment
- forests
- nature and landscape (conservation of nature and landscape, Natura 2000, financial instruments to support conservation of nature and landscape)
- physical field (state of the ozone layer over the Czech Republic, radiation situation, radon risk, noise, non-ionizing electromagnetic radiation and electric and magnetic field)
5. Environment and health (health state of the population, extraneous matter in the food chain)
6. Environmental policy tools (economic instruments, environmental expenditures, voluntary tools)
7. Environmental Impact Assessment – EIA/SEA and Integrated Pollution Prevention and Control – IPPC, integrated register of environmental pollution
8. Education, training, public education and work with the public in the sphere of environmental education
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