546-0421/08 – Preventive Techniques in Environmental Protection (PTOZP)
| Gurantor department | Department of Environmental Engineering | Credits | 5 |
| Subject guarantor | Ing. Jana Kodymová, Ph.D. | Subject version guarantor | Ing. Jana Kodymová, Ph.D. |
| Study level | undergraduate or graduate | Requirement | Choice-compulsory |
| Year | 1 | Semester | summer |
| | Study language | Czech |
| Year of introduction | 2013/2014 | Year of cancellation | 2021/2022 |
| 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
Teaching methods
Lectures
Seminars
Individual consultations
Tutorials
Project work
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).
Compulsory literature:
Recommended literature:
Web sources: www.wbcsd.org, www.unido.org, www.unepie.org, www.who.org,
www.env.cz, www.cemc.cz, http://europa.eu.int/comm/environment/ipp/home.htm
Various scientific journals
Way of continuous check of knowledge in the course of semester
E-learning
Other requirements
A part of each exercise is a presentation of a seminar paper that relates to the given issue. Seminar work is given in the first week of the course. Required range of 2 - 4 pages of text.
Prerequisities
Subject has no prerequisities.
Co-requisities
Subject has no co-requisities.
Subject syllabus:
1. Definitions – environment, environmental protection, ecology, environmental pollution and degradation. Local, regional and global environmental pollution, assimilation capacity of nature.
2. Changes in the environment according to demographic, social and technical development, resources use, renewable and non-renewable sources. Global ecosystem, ecosystem services. Biodiversity, Convention on Biological Diversity, genetic banks.
3. History of environmental protection. Basic strategies, development in timeline, main features. Economical comparison of different environmental strategies.
4. Sustainable development – definition, principles, documents. Agenda 21. Scenarios of sustainable development (WBCSD)
5. Preventive strategy –principles, tools, proactive impact, win-win strategy and its advantages
6. EIA – principle, Czech legislation, time requirements, participants in EIA process, role of state administration, local administration and public. EIA experts – qualification requirements, formation of team for EIA process, methods for assessment.
7. Environmental audits – definition, legislation. Various types of environmental audit, differences and common signs, description of audit program and plan, participants. Auditors – qualification requirements, formation of team for audit.
8. Waste minimization, cleaner production. Definition, description of CP assessment project. Implementation in companies. Benefits of CP project for environment and economics of company. IPPC – principle, Czech legislation, BAT, BREF.
9. LCA
10. Environmental labels and declarations
11. Environmental management systems – definition, basic features, specifications.
12. EMS certification – rules, possibilities, costs and benefits. Accreditation of certification bodies. EMAS and ISO 14001 - differences. Connection to other management systems (QMS, SMS, OHSAS etc.). EPI’s, ISO 14031.CSR
13. Voluntary agreements - reason, methodology, relation to the legislation, benefits.
14. Environmental economy – basic terms, economical tools for environmental protection, environmental accounting
Conditions for subject completion
Occurrence in study plans
Occurrence in special blocks
Assessment of instruction