546-0801/01 – Sustainable Production and Consumption (UVaS)
| 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 | | |
| | Study language | Czech |
| Year of introduction | 2008/2009 | Year of cancellation | 2016/2017 |
| Intended for the faculties | HGF | Intended for study types | Follow-up Master |
Subject aims expressed by acquired skills and competences
To understand the impact of production and consumption to the global ecosystem on macro scale, global material flows, producers and consumers behavior.
Teaching methods
Lectures
Seminars
Individual consultations
Tutorials
Project work
Summary
Global material flows, exploration of resources, consumers and producers approach. Tools for minimization of production/consumption on environment.
Compulsory literature:
Millennium Ecosystem Assessment. Ecosystems and Human Well-being: Synthesis,
published in 2005 by Island Press. (http://www.millenniumassessment.org/documents/document.356.aspx.pdf)
Environmental Science. Understanding, protecting and managing the environment in the Baltic Sea Region. Editors: Lars Rydén, Pawel Migula and Magnus Andersson. BUP Uppsala 2003 (http://www2.balticuniv.uu.se/bup-3/index.php/public/textbooks-course-materials/course-materials/environmental-science)
Web sources: www.wbcsd.org, www.unido.org, www.unep.org, www.who.org,
www.mzp.cz, www.cemc.cz,
Agenda 21. https://sustainabledevelopment.un.org/content/documents/Agenda21.pd
ASHBY, M. F., Didac FERRER I BALAS and Jordi SEGALÀS. [2016]. Materials and sustainable development. Amsterdam: Elsevier/BH.
Recommended literature:
Web sources: www.mzp.cz,www.cemc.cz,www.cenia.cz
Various scientific journals
http://ec.europa.eu/environment/green-growth/index_en.htm
Resource Efficiency (www.unido.org)
US EPA: Principlles of Pollution Prevention and Cleaner Production.
An International Training Course. 1999 (electronic version at lecturer)
Manual on the Development of Cleaner Production Policies — Approaches and Instruments. UNIDO CP Programme, Vienna 2002
Way of continuous check of knowledge in the course of semester
E-learning
Other requirements
Group project with results presentation
Prerequisities
Subject has no prerequisities.
Co-requisities
Subject has no co-requisities.
Subject syllabus:
1. Global material and energy flows for production and consumption, visible and hidden exploration of sources (Hidden backpack)
2. Influence on primary sources consumption in production – ecodesign, cleaner production
3. Substitution of primary sources by secondary ones – reuse, recycling
4. Tools for improvement of material recycling share – legislative, financial
5. Management of end-of-life waste collection and treatment
6. Sustainable consumption from producers’ point of view – ecoefficiency
7. Sustainable consumption from consumers’ point of view – ecological footprint, consumption patterns
8. Consumers’ access to information about environmental characteristics of product.
9. Legislative, economical and informational tools for individual consumption regulation
10. Tools for regulation of public consumption
11. Environmental ethics
12. Municipality support to sustainable consumption.
13. Environmental education for sustainable consumption
14. Participation of NGO’s in SCP support
Conditions for subject completion
Conditions for completion are defined only for particular subject version and form of study
Occurrence in study plans
Occurrence in special blocks
Assessment of instruction