FSS:ENS101 Environmental Risks - Course Information

ENS101 Review of Environmental Risks

Extent and Intensity

2/0/0. 6 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).

Teacher(s)

Ing. Zbyněk Ulčák, Ph.D. (lecturer)

Guaranteed by

Ing. Zbyněk Ulčák, Ph.D.
Department of Environmental Studies – Faculty of Social Studies
Contact Person: Dana Pantůčková

Timetable

Wed 18:00–19:30 P52

Course Enrolment Limitations

The course is only offered to the students of the study fields the course is directly associated with.

fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with

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Course objectives

The course acquaints students with man's demands for energy and natural resources. It explains the mechanism of air, water and soil pollution and how organisms are affected. Attention is paid to pollution caused by noise, vibrations, heat, light and radiation. The course also involves a brief overview of environmental toxicology. The risks of energy industry, mining, industry, agriculture, forest management, transport and tourism will be analysed. Special attention will be paid to problems of waste management, especially the municipal one.
At the end of the course students should be able to:
understand the complexity of environmental problems;
improve their ability to analyse new problems and find solutions;
critically reflects and evaluate policy intruments of solving environmental problems.

Syllabus

• Risk and society, risk perception.
• Strategies and mechanisms of environmental protection, reacktive and proactive strategie
• Concept of sustainable development.
• Seminar - Environmental risks of resource use.
• Seminar - Water as resource and risk.
• Seminar - Environmental factors threating human health.
• Seminar - Environmentální rizika dopravy.
• Seminar - Principles of waste management.
• Seminar - Agriculture and its environmental impact.
• Seminar - Environment of the Czech Republic.

Literature

• KURAŠ, Mečislav, Vojtech DIRNER, Vladimír SLIVKA and Milan BŘEZINA. Odpadové hospodářství. Vyd. 1. Chrudim: Vodní zdroje Ekomonitor, 2008, 143 s. ISBN 9788086832340. info
• MILLER, G. Tyler. Living in the environment : principles, connections, and solutions. 12th ed. Belmont: Brooks/Cole Publishing Company, 2002, xx, 758. ISBN 0534376975. info
• Environmental risks and the media. Edited by Stuart Allan - Barbara Adam - Cynthia Carter. 1st pub. London: Routledge, 2000, xiv, 278. ISBN 0415214475. info
• DIRNER, Vojtech. Ochrana životního prostředí :základy, plánování, technologie, ekonomika, právo a management. Praha: Ministerstvo životního prostředí, 1997, 333 s. ISBN 80-7078-490-3. info
• Perceiving environmental risks. Edited by Timothy O'Riordan. London: Academic Press, 1995, vi, 242. ISBN 0125278403. info
• PECH, Karel. Ochrana životního prostředí. 1. vyd. Ostrava: Vysoká škola báňská, 1992, 234 s. ISBN 80-7078-141-6. info

Teaching methods

The course is based on lectures and individual work with the study recourses. Students are required to write two essays based on their readings.

Assessment methods

The course is finished by an examination. Students receive credits for two essays and the final written test. The literature for the subject will be placed in the section “Study materials” in IS. The exact conditions of the point evaluation for the test and essays will be published in the section “Study materials”. The topics for the presentations and the instructions will be published there as well.

Language of instruction

Czech

Further comments (probably available only in Czech)

The course is taught annually.
Information on course enrolment limitations: Kurz se otevírá při 5 a více přihlášených studentech.

Listed among pre-requisites of other courses

• ENSb1303 Local Environmental Risks
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