546-0346/02 – Environmental Engineering II. (EI II)
| Gurantor department | Department of Environmental Engineering | Credits | 4 |
| Subject guarantor | doc. Ing. Jiří Kupka, Ph.D. | Subject version guarantor | doc. Ing. Jiří Kupka, Ph.D. |
| Study level | undergraduate or graduate | Requirement | Compulsory |
| Year | 1 | Semester | summer |
| | Study language | Czech |
| Year of introduction | 2008/2009 | Year of cancellation | 2019/2020 |
| Intended for the faculties | HGF | Intended for study types | Follow-up Master |
Subject aims expressed by acquired skills and competences
To be familiar with environmental issues in general terms. To distinguish the different approaches to estimate and find the best solutions for specific environmental issues.
Students will be able to provide informations for work with practice, demonstrate and evaluate a general overview of the issue. Comparing the different approaches and confrontation with practice. Prove to show results and solve problems with high quality of work and all by itself.
Demonstrate communication skills (speaking and active writing), to handle technical terminology.
Teaching methods
Lectures
Seminars
Individual consultations
Project work
Summary
Organism and environment. Ecological faktors. Population Ecology. Communities
and biocoenoses. Ecosystems. Ecological stability. Cycling of matter. The
energy in ecosystems. Food chains, food pyramids. Water ecology. Land ecology.
Ecology of Man.
Compulsory literature:
Recommended literature:
Way of continuous check of knowledge in the course of semester
semester work and writing test
E-learning
Other requirements
active participation in seminars and lectures, authoring processing seminar work and its quality of presentation to exercise
Prerequisities
Subject has no prerequisities.
Co-requisities
Subject has no co-requisities.
Subject syllabus:
1st Relations between the organism and the environment (niche, ecological valence,
ecological optimum).
2nd The conditions for life (climate, temperature, water and humidity, light, soil).
3rd Type (adaptation, specialization, genetic and phenotypic polymorphism,
fitness, individual).
4th Population (density, distribution, age, mortality, natality, population
growth and regulation of migration and dispersion of organisms, Intraspecific and interspecific
competition, predation, parasitism, and mutualism).
5th Communities (communities in the arrangement of space, structure
communities in time - succession, stability, flexibility and community resistance).
6th Ecosystems (biosphere, energy flow and productivity of ecosystems, trophic
structure, biochemical cycles, biomes).
7th Characteristics of the human environment
8th Air pollution, climate disruption (disruption of the ozone layer,
greenhouse effect, acid rain, dust).
9th Pollution pedosphere (soil erosion, depletion and degradation of soil, felling
tropical forests, contamination by heavy metals, oil, pesticides).
10th Contamination of fresh water and oceans (water management, eutrophication,
industrial waste, oil, DDT).
11th Preserving biodiversity of life in a world of violence, overcrowding,
food problem, the health status of the population, the problem of poverty.
12th Resources (energy, raw materials, waste).
13th Other global issues (the problem of information, problems associated with
scientific and technical revolution, the use of oceans, seas and Antarctica, institutional
arrangement, the biological revolution, employment, leisure).
Conditions for subject completion
Occurrence in study plans
Occurrence in special blocks
Assessment of instruction