Ze2MP_EGC8 environmental geography

Faculty of Education
Spring 2011
Extent and Intensity
0/1. 1 credit(s). Type of Completion: z (credit).
Teacher(s)
doc. RNDr. Aleš Ruda, Ph.D. (seminar tutor)
Guaranteed by
doc. RNDr. Aleš Ruda, Ph.D.
Department of Geography – Faculty of Education
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is offered to students of any study field.
Course objectives
The course includes landscape study, methods of damaged dynamics, present anthropogenic changes, protection of water, atmosphere soil and biota and landscape fragments with emphasis on landscape protection in relation with regional development. The course
Syllabus
  • 1. Understanding environmental geography
  • 2. Environmental aspects, impacts and assessment
  • 3. Research of damaged landscape dynamic
  • 4. Data and information
  • 5. Didactic transformation
Literature
  • MARSH, William M. and John GROSSA. Environmental geography : science, land use, and earth systems. 3rd ed. New York: J. Wiley, 2005, 455 p. ISBN 0471482803. URL info
  • GOUDIE, Andrew. The human impact on the natural environment : past, present, and future. 6th ed. Malden, Mass.: Blackwell Publishing, 2006, xv, 357. ISBN 140512704X. info
  • ANDERSON, David and Adrian PARKER. Global environments through the Quaternary : exploring environmental change. Edited by Andrew Goudie. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007, xiii, 359. ISBN 9780198742265. info
  • STEFFEN, W. ET AL. Global Changes and the Earth System : A Planet Under Pressure. Berlin: Springer-Verlag, 2004. ISBN 3-540-40800-2
Teaching methods
group projects
Assessment methods
lectures, projects, written test, 30% of absence (maximum)
Language of instruction
Czech
The course is also listed under the following terms Spring 2010.
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