HEN923 Environmental Aspects of Town and Landscape

Faculty of Social Studies
Spring 2019
Extent and Intensity
0/0/0. 5 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
Teacher(s)
Mgr. Jan Dostalík, Ph.D. (lecturer)
doc. Mgr. Karel Stibral, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Ing. Zbyněk Ulčák, Ph.D. (assistant)
Guaranteed by
doc. Mgr. Karel Stibral, Ph.D.
Department of Environmental Studies – Faculty of Social Studies
Contact Person: Ing. Veronika Išová
Supplier department: Department of Environmental Studies – Faculty of Social Studies
Prerequisites
None
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
Course objectives
The aim of the course is to develop the competence of Ph.D. students to interpret their research problems from social and nature science and technologies from practice (for all history, philosophy, sociology, urbann and landscape planning, conservation, agriculture and other environmental sciences and skills) perspective and to communicate their findings to expert audience.
Learning outcomes
After succeeding the course, students
- evaluate contexts and differences between their own, field specific perceptions of their research problem and its interpretations based on different discourses and scientific areas;
- reflect and analyze different field perspectives of selected interdisciplinary themes related to city and landscape issues;
- reflect the strengths and weaknesses in their ability to communicate their professional findings to the professional public.
Syllabus
  • 1. Introduction - main themes, methodology
  • 2. Historical approaches of researching the city and landscape
  • 3. Environmental History I - Methodology and selected approaches
  • 4. Environmental History II - Relationship between the city and the landscape
  • 5. Selected approaches of city studies. The fundamental insights into disciplines, main directions, themes, key texts, criticism
  • 6. Historical approaches: urban history and planning history. An overview of professional disciplines studying urban history, planning, urbanism, ideas, etc.
  • 7. Urban studies. History of city studies in social sciences, sociological and geographical theories of the city
  • 8. Selected approaches to researching the landscape, basic overview, methodology, history
  • 9. Environmental philosophy, environmental aesthetics and landscape 10. Sociology, geography and landscape
  • 11. Agricultural sciences, landscape ecology, landscaping
  • 12. Synthesis I: Nature conservation and heritage conservation
  • 13. Synthesis II: Landscape planning and urbanism
Literature
    required literature
  • KOVÁŘ, Pavel. Ekosystémová a krajinná ekologie. Vyd. 2., přeprac. a dopl. Praha: Karolinum, 2012, 166 s. ISBN 9788024620442. info
  • DIAMOND, Jared M. Kolaps : proč společnosti zanikají a přežívají. Translated by Zdeněk Urban. Vyd. 1. Praha: Academia, 2008, 751 s. ISBN 9788020015891. info
  • LÖW, Jiří and Igor MÍCHAL. Krajinný ráz. 1. vyd. Kostelec nad Černými Lesy: Lesnická práce, 2003, 552 s. ISBN 8086386279. info
  • HALÍK, Pavel, Petr KRATOCHVÍL and Otakar NOVÝ. Architektura a město. Vyd. 1. Praha: Academia, 1996, 204 s. ISBN 8020002456. info
    recommended literature
  • SPURNÝ, Matěj. Most do budoucnosti : laboratoř socialistické modernity na severu Čech. Vydání první. Praha: Univerzita Karlova v Praze, nakladatelství Karolinum, 2016, 287 stran. ISBN 9788024633329. URL info
  • HNILIČKA, Pavel. Sídelní kaše : otázky k suburbánní výstavbě kolonií rodinných domů. Druhé, doplněné vydání. Brno: Host, 2012, 207 stran. ISBN 9788072945924. info
  • FERENČUHOVÁ, Slavomíra. Meno, mesto, vec. Urbánne plánovanie v sociológii mesta a prípad (post)socialistického Brna (Name, city, object. Urban planning in sociology and the case of (post)socialist Brno). Brno: Masarykova univerzita, 2011, 275 pp. EDIS 7. ISBN 978-80-210-5583-4. info
  • CULEK, Martin and Vít GRULICH. Biogeografické členění ČR (Biogeographical division of the Czech Republic). 2010. info
  • VACKOVÁ, Barbora. Prostor, moc a utopie: Ideální město a jeho společnost. (Space, Power and Utopia: the Ideal City and its Society). 1st ed. Brno: Masarykova univerzita, 2010, 171 pp. EDIS, svazek 6. ISBN 978-80-210-5252-9. info
  • KLVAČ, Pavel. Člověk, krajina, krajinný ráz. 1st ed. Brno: Masarykova univerzita, 2009, 94 pp. ISBN 978-80-210-5090-7. info
  • FERENČUHOVÁ, Slavomíra, Magdalena HLEDÍKOVÁ, Lucie GALČANOVÁ and Barbora (eds.) VACKOVÁ. Město: Proměnlivá ne/samozřejmost (City: In/Seizable Commonplace). 1st ed. Červený Kostelec / Brno: Pavel Mervart / Masarykova univerzita, 2009, 252 pp. ISBN 978-80-210-4866-9. info
  • FARINA, Almo. Principles and methods in landscape ecology : toward a science of landscape. [Dordrecht]: Springer, 2007, xxii, 412. ISBN 1402033281. info
  • In the nature of cities : urban political ecology and the politics of urban metabolism. Edited by Nik Heynen - Maria Kaika - E. Swyngedouw. London: Routledge, 2006, xv, 271. ISBN 0415368286. info
  • MOLDAN, Bedřich. Životní prostředí očima přírodovědce. Edited by Jaroslav Zýka - Jan Jeník. Vyd. 1. Praha: Academia, 1979, 166 s. URL info
    not specified
  • The turning points of environmental history. Edited by Frank Uekötter - Jens Ivo Engels. 1 online r. ISBN 9780822977629. info
  • The Oxford handbook of environmental history. Edited by Andrew C. Isenberg. Oxford: Oxford university press, 2014, xiv, 783. ISBN 9780195324907. info
  • KOLÁŘ, Filip. Ochrana přírody z pohledu biologa : proč a jak chránit českou přírodu. 1. vyd. v českém jazyce. Praha: Dokořán, 2012, 213 s. ISBN 9788073634148. info
  • Nature, aesthetics, and environmentalism : from beauty to duty. Edited by Allen Carlson - Sheila Lintott. New York: Columbia University Press, 2008, ix, 458. ISBN 9780231138871. URL info
  • SCHAMA, Simon. Krajina a paměť. Translated by Petr Pálenský. Vyd. 1. Praha: Argo, 2007, 702 s. ISBN 9788073630713. info
  • CARLSON, Allen. Aesthetics and the environment : the appreciation of nature, art and architecture. 1st pub. London: Routledge, 2000, xxi, 247. ISBN 041530105X. info
  • The wealth of nature : environmental history and the ecological imagination. Edited by Donald Worster. New York: Oxford University Press, 1993, x, 255. ISBN 0195092643. URL info
  • Geologie a životní prostředí. Edited by Bedřich Moldan. Praha: Ústřední ústav geologický, 1974, 141 s. info
Teaching methods
Lectures, class discussions; presentation of students' own research project or finding in the context of the lectures.
Assessment methods
Oral exam; mandatory participation in courses (at least 70%) and presentation of students' own research project or finding. Assessing of their competence to discuss their topic from interdisciplinary perspective.
Language of instruction
Czech
Further Comments
The course can also be completed outside the examination period.
Listed among pre-requisites of other courses
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