546-0401/02 – Environmental Management (EM)
| Gurantor department | Department of Environmental Engineering | Credits | 5 |
| Subject guarantor | Ing. Jana Kodymová, Ph.D. | Subject version guarantor | RNDr. Alena Labodová, Ph.D. |
| Study level | undergraduate or graduate | Requirement | Compulsory |
| Year | 2 | Semester | summer |
| | Study language | Czech |
| Year of introduction | 2005/2006 | Year of cancellation | 2014/2015 |
| Intended for the faculties | HGF | Intended for study types | Follow-up Master |
Subject aims expressed by acquired skills and competences
Knowledge rendered after completion of the course: Do the themes of which have been prepared outline of the subject. Students will learn about developments in the macro environment, learn about the policy instruments of environmental protection, as well as tools to promote sustainable development. Skills rendered after completion of the course: An informed discussion, knowledge of state environmental context and the economy.
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Summary
The subject is introducing fundamentals and methods of environmental care
management in company (as voluntary regulations). There are different access to environmental management and their relationship. Main attention is focused on sustainable development, global scenarios and their use, ecoefectivity, product policy, environmental risk and healthy risk, environmental computer science (informatics).
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Way of continuous check of knowledge in the course of semester
E-learning
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Prerequisities
Subject has no prerequisities.
Co-requisities
Subject has no co-requisities.
Subject syllabus:
1. Environmental management – discussion of various approaches and their advantages/disadvantages, voluntary regulation, economical impact
2. Global scenarios of sustainable development (WBCSD), use in environmental management, MA scenarios for global ecosystem
3. CR scenarios, State Environmental Policy
4. Ecoefficiency – CP, clean technologies, BAT, BREF (IPPC), ecoefficiency indicators (WBCSD, ISO 14031)
5. Sustainable products – design for environment, extended producers’ responsibility, integrated product policy (EU), SCP
6. EMS as a managerial tool, integrated management systems, environmental reporting, CSR
7. Role of risk assessment in environmental protection, environmental impact of industrial accidents
8. Environmental management of area (city, region), legislative tools
9. Local Agenda 21, sustainability indicators – methods, use
10. Environmental health, NEHAP, monitoring
11. IT use in environmental protection – methods, tools
12. Access to the information about environment, Aarhus convention, public participation
Conditions for subject completion
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Occurrence in special blocks
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