ENSn4644 Environmental Aspects of Energy Utilisation

Faculty of Social Studies
Autumn 2021
Extent and Intensity
1/1/0. 6 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
Teacher(s)
RNDr. Yvonna Gaillyová, CSc. (lecturer)
RNDr. Jan Hollan, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
prof. RNDr. Hana Librová, CSc.
Department of Environmental Studies – Faculty of Social Studies
Contact Person: Mgr. Kristína Markechová
Supplier department: Department of Environmental Studies – Faculty of Social Studies
Timetable
Wed 12:00–13:40 U35
Prerequisites (in Czech)
! HEN644 Environmental Aspects &&!NOW( HEN644 Environmental Aspects )
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.
The capacity limit for the course is 40 student(s).
Current registration and enrolment status: enrolled: 2/40, only registered: 0/40, only registered with preference (fields directly associated with the programme): 0/40
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
Course objectives
At the end of the course, its members will understand the causes of global warming and will be able to explain them. In a reduced extent, it holds for climate change caused by warming and altered composition of the atmosphere, for its impacts and for adaptation to climate change. They will acquire basic orientation in the topic of mitigation, the ways to lower emission of greenhouse gases: lowering the need of energy fluxes and covering the remaining need by renewables.
Learning outcomes
in addition to the knowledge of this broad field, the ability to edit wikipedia passwords
Syllabus
  • What is a greenhouse phenomenon, how great it is, how it works, how it grows and grows, what it does: Earth's warming.
  • Why the greenhouse effect is increasing: due to the consumption of fossil fuels.
  • Warming global and regional as the main cause of climate change.
  • Other factors influencing this change: aerosols from combustion, landscape change.
  • What are the natural influences on the state of the climate system?
  • How its status changes and will change the impact of these changes.
  • What can no longer be avoided (and we can adapt to it).
  • What are the paths for greenhouse gas emissions to cease to grow and then to decline.
  • What is called a mitigation. How urgent is this.
  • Other (non-limiting) damage caused by the use of fossil energy sources.
  • Vision zerocarbonbritain.org - A company that does not enhance the greenhouse effect.
  • The concept of sustainable development, the unsustainability of today's consumption, its moral aspects.
  • What everyone can do to minimize their contribution to warming up.
  • What can and should do community, firm, state, EU, UN.
  • Good and bad examples. Where we are so wasting how to stop.
  • Similar to   2. World War - Does mankind defeat itself in front of us, save civilization?
Literature
    recommended literature
  • MILÉŘ, Tomáš and Jan HOLLAN. Klima a koloběhy látek – Jak funguje klimatický systém Země, proč a jak se klima mění (Climate and Flows of Substances – How the Earth's climate system works, why and how the climate is changing). 1st ed. Brno: Masarykova univerzita, 2014. ISBN 978-80-210-7109-4. URL info
    not specified
  • DLABKA, Jakub, Pavel DANIHELKA, Petr NOVOTNÝ, Jaroslav ROŽNOVSKÝ, Jan HOLLAN, Jiří KRIST, Yvonna GAILLYOVÁ, Erik THORSTENSEN, Barbora BAUDIŠOVÁ, Kamila DANIHELKOVÁ and Jana SUCHÁNKOVÁ. Od zranitelnosti k resilienci : Adaptace venkovských oblastí na klimatickou změnu (From vulnerability to resiliency : adaptation of rural areas to climate change). 1st ed. Brno: ZO ČSOP Veronica, 2016, 64 pp. ISBN 978-80-87308-32-5. URL info
Teaching methods
frontal teaching, work in groups with assigned tasks, seminar discussion, presentation of own research in given area
Assessment methods
We will mark the quality of newly created passwords for wikipedia or editing (eg updating, proofreading, adding references) of existing passwords. In Czech or some other languages. You have to start working on passwords by enrolling in https://outreachdashboard.wmflabs.org/courses/FSS_MU/Evironmentalni_aspekty_vyuzivani_energie_(2021) (and have / create a wikipedia account)
Language of instruction
Czech
Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
Study Materials
The course can also be completed outside the examination period.
The course is taught once in two years.
Teacher's information
http://amper.ped.muni.cz/eave
The course is also listed under the following terms Autumn 2023.
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