FSS:ESS411 Environmental Aspects of Energ - Course Information
ESS411 Environmental Aspects of Energy
Faculty of Social StudiesAutumn 2019
- Extent and Intensity
- 1/1/0. 6 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
- Teacher(s)
- doc. Mgr. Filip Černoch, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Mgr. Lukáš Lehotský, Ph.D. (lecturer)
doc. PhDr. Tomáš Vlček, Ph.D. (lecturer) - Guaranteed by
- doc. Mgr. Filip Černoch, Ph.D.
Department of International Relations and European Studies – Faculty of Social Studies
Contact Person: Olga Cídlová, DiS. - Timetable
- Tue 8:00–9:40 P22
- Prerequisites
- ! ESSn5011 Environmental Aspects of Energ && !NOW( ESSn5011 Environmental Aspects of Energ )
None. - Course Enrolment Limitations
- The course is only offered to the students of the study fields the course is directly associated with.
The capacity limit for the course is 3 student(s).
Current registration and enrolment status: enrolled: 0/3, only registered: 0/3 - fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
- Energy Security Studies (Eng.) (programme FSS, N-MS)
- Course objectives
- Abundance of cheap and accessible energy from coal, oil and gas helped to create modern society. At the same time combustion of these sources compromised the local and global environment, with the climate change being currently the biggest threat. In the course we follow the development of the modern energy systems based on fossil fuels. We observe the relationship between these systems and environment. We analyze the governmental efforts to limit negative impacts of these industries on environment and assess the efficiency of different measures. And we evaluate on the ongoing energy transition to the low carbon economies. The course builds on the theoretical concepts of environmental science applied on energy sector. Also political science, governance science, and economics are employed.
- Learning outcomes
- At the end of this course students should be able to approach current energy-environmental debate critically, having necessary background from different academic fields.
- Syllabus
- Ecosystem and population ecology, consumption of fossil fuels - local and global pollution, neoclassical and environmental approach to the environmental services, scarcity of energy resources, renewable energy, nuclear energy, energy efficiency, theory of technological and societal transition, energy transitions in the 21st century.
- Literature
- WRIGHT, Richard T. Environmental science : toward a sustainable future. 9th ed. Upper Saddle River, N.J.: Pearson Prentice Hall, 2005, xxiii, 712. ISBN 013144204X. info
- Teaching methods
- Lectures and class discussions, reading, seminal project.
- Assessment methods
- Final written test, seminal work.
- Language of instruction
- English
- Further Comments
- Study Materials
The course is taught annually. - Listed among pre-requisites of other courses
- MEBn5015 Energy and environment
!MEB415 && !ESSn5011 && !ESS411 && !MVZ460
- MEBn5015 Energy and environment
- Enrolment Statistics (recent)
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