546-0342/08 – Current State and Development of Environment in Czech Republic (SVŽP)

Gurantor departmentDepartment of Environmental EngineeringCredits3
Subject guarantordoc. Ing. Iva Janáková, Ph.D.Subject version guarantordoc. Ing. Iva Janáková, Ph.D.
Study levelundergraduate or graduateRequirementChoice-compulsory type B
Year2Semestersummer
Study languageCzech
Year of introduction2020/2021Year of cancellation
Intended for the facultiesHGFIntended for study typesBachelor
Instruction secured by
LoginNameTuitorTeacher giving lectures
PEC06 doc. Ing. Iva Janáková, Ph.D.
MUD0002 Ing. Jaroslav Mudruňka, Ph.D.
Extent of instruction for forms of study
Form of studyWay of compl.Extent
Full-time Examination 2+0
Part-time Examination 8+0

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:

Report on the environment in the Czech Republic in 2020 Prague: Ministry of the Environment of the Czech Republic, 2020. ISBN 978-80-87770-68-9.ISBN 978-80-87770-73-3. 2020. [online] https://www.cenia.cz/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/Report_Env_CZE_2019.pdf The European environment — state and outlook 2020 : Knowledge for transition to a sustainable Europe. 2020. [online]. https://www.eea.europa.eu/soer/publications/soer-2020

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) 5. State and development of environment constituents - water (hydrological and meteorological conditions, water quality, water use, water management, sources of pollution) 6. State and development of environment constituents - soil and rock environment 7. State and development of environment constituents- forests 8. State and development of environment constituents - nature and landscape (conservation of nature and landscape, Natura 2000, financial instruments to support conservation of nature and landscape) 9. 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) 10. Environment and health (health state of the population, extraneous matter in the food chain) 11. Environmental policy tools (economic instruments, environmental expenditures, voluntary tools) 12. Environmental Impact Assessment – EIA/SEA and Integrated Pollution Prevention and Control – IPPC, integrated register of environmental pollution 13. Education, training, public education and work with the public in the sphere of environmental education

Conditions for subject completion

Part-time form (validity from: 2020/2021 Summer semester)
Task nameType of taskMax. number of points
(act. for subtasks)
Min. number of pointsMax. počet pokusů
Examination Examination 100  51 3
Mandatory attendence participation: Participation in lectures. The student's knowledge will be continuously checked in lectures through discussion. The course is concluded with an oral and written examination.

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Conditions for subject completion and attendance at the exercises within ISP: Compensation for the mandatory participation in the ISP will be the compilation of a seminar paper. Examination is conducted only in the form of attendance.

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