ZA131 Environmental history

Přírodovědecká fakulta
podzim 2024

Předmět se v období podzim 2024 nevypisuje.

Rozsah
2/0/0. 4 kr. Ukončení: zk.
Vyučující
Mgr. Lukáš Dolák, Ph.D. (přednášející)
Mgr. Péter Szabó, Ph.D. M.A. (přednášející)
Garance
Mgr. Lukáš Dolák, Ph.D.
Geografický ústav – Sekce věd o Zemi – Přírodovědecká fakulta
Kontaktní osoba: Mgr. Lukáš Dolák, Ph.D.
Dodavatelské pracoviště: Geografický ústav – Sekce věd o Zemi – Přírodovědecká fakulta
Předpoklady
The course is intended for postgraduate (MSc) students. General knowledge of changes in environment and landscape at the undergraduate (BSc) level is required to attend the course.
Omezení zápisu do předmětu
Předmět je určen pouze studentům mateřských oborů.
Mateřské obory/plány
Cíle předmětu
The main aim of the course is to familiarise the students with the relationship between human society and the European landscape in the last 12 000 years. Even though the accent will be put on the Czech landscape, all factors of landscape changes will be discussed in the European (and global) context. The students will also discover a comprehensive and systematic approach to environmental history that contributes to coping with the consequences of recent regional and global environmental problems (e.g. deforestation, climate change). The course deals with the analysing of possible future trends of recent regional and global environmental problems. Moreover, the students will gain the necessary knowledge and overview of past and current activities in the field of environmental history.
Výstupy z učení
At the end of the course, the students will understand the fundamentals of the relationship between human society and the European landscape during the Holocene. They will be able to realize and identify the recent regional and global consequences of the interaction between human society and landscape. Moreover, the students will better understand the evolution of that relationship in the past. Last but not least, the students will gain the necessary knowledge and overview of past and current activities in the field of environmental history.
Osnova
  • 1. Introduction into environmental history
  • 2. Data sources and methods in environmental history
  • 3. People and nature in prehistory
  • 4. Environmental history: global perspective
  • 5. Ancient civilizations: their rise and fall
  • 6. Climate matters: an influence of climate variability on human societies
  • 7. Forests from global and regional perspectives
  • 8. Environmental history of the Czech Republic
  • 9. A matter of climate change
  • 10. Historical climatology
  • 11. Environmental migration
  • 12. Milestones of environmental history
Literatura
    doporučená literatura
  • CARSON, Rachel. Silent spring. London: Penguin Books, 1999, 323 p. ISBN 0141184949. info
  • Global environmental history : an introductory reader. Edited by John Robert McNeill - Alan Roe. First published. London: Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2013, xxvi, 449. ISBN 9780415520539. info
  • MCNEILL, John Robert a Peter ENGELKE. The great acceleration : an environmental history of the anthropocene since 1945. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Belknap press of Harvard university press, 2014, 275 stran. ISBN 9780674545038. info
  • PFISTER, Ch., Wanner, H. Climate and Society in Europe. Bern: Haupt, 2021, 397 p. ISBN 978-3-258-08234-9
  • LJUNGQVIST, F. C. et al. (2021): Climate and society in European history. WIREs Climate Change, 12, 2, e691.
  • WHITE, S. A Cold Welcome: The Little Ice Age and Europe’s Encounter with North America. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard, 2017. 361 p. ISBN 0674971922
  • ELLIS, E. C. et al. (2021): People have shaped most of terrestrial nature for at least 12,000 years. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 118, 17, e2023483118.
Výukové metody
The theoretical lectures represent the main teaching method. During the lectures, significant attention will be paid to discussing the relevant topics related to environmental history. The accent will be put on an engagement of all students in the discussed themes.
Metody hodnocení
Written test based on theoretical lectures.
Vyučovací jazyk
Angličtina
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