FSS:ENS264 Rural management - Course Information
ENS264 Sustainable rural management
Faculty of Social StudiesSpring 2013
- Extent and Intensity
- 2/0/0. 3 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
- Teacher(s)
- Ing. Zbyněk Ulčák, Ph.D. (lecturer)
- Guaranteed by
- doc. Mgr. Bohuslav Binka, Ph.D.
Department of Environmental Studies – Faculty of Social Studies
Contact Person: Dana Pantůčková
Supplier department: Department of Environmental Studies – Faculty of Social Studies - Timetable
- Wed 10:00–11:40 U32
- 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 25 student(s).
Current registration and enrolment status: enrolled: 0/25, only registered: 0/25 - fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
- there are 20 fields of study the course is directly associated with, display
- Course objectives
- A student is able to describe the agroecosystem structure and the ecological factors influencing agricultural production. Understands the basic priciples of crop and animal production and its environmental impacts and environmentally friendly technologies.
Course make students aware of the biological and ecosystem limits of modern technologies, students realise and evaluate critical moment of land management. - Syllabus
- Soil and plant nutrition - basic principles of soil formation, soil organic matter,
- Fertilisers and manures, environmental impacts.
- Agroecosystem – origin of agriculture, structure of agroecosystem, energy and agriculture,
- Crop rotations.
- Plants as the basis of food production, principles of ecological crop husbandry.
- Ecological animal husbandry.
- Literature
- ŠARAPATKA, Bořivoj and Urs NIGGLI. Zemědělství a krajina : cesty k vzájemnému souladu. 1. vyd. Olomouc: Univerzita Palackého v Olomouci, 2008, 271 s. ISBN 9788024418858. info
- URBAN, Jiří and Bořivoj ŠARAPATKA. Ekologické zemědělství :učebnice pro školy i praxi. 1. vyd. Praha: Ministerstvo životního prostředí ČR, 2003, 280 s. ISBN 80-7212-274-6. info
- PRETTY, Jules. Agri-culture :reconnecting people, land and nature. 1st pub. London: Earthscan Publications, 2002, xvi, 261 s. ISBN 1-85383-925-6. info
- JANDÁK, Jiří, Alois PRAX and Eduard POKORNÝ. Půdoznalství. 1. vyd. Brno: Mendelova zemědělská a lesnická univerzita, 2001, 140 s. ISBN 8071575593. info
- PRAX, Alois, Jiří JANDÁK and Eduard POKORNÝ. Půdoznalství. 1. vyd. V Brně: Mendelova zemědělská a lesnická univerzita, 1999, 153 s. ISBN 8071571458. info
- BARTÁK, Miroslav, František KOCOUREK and Vladimír VRABEC. Obecná agroekologie. Ostrava: Vysoká škola báňská - Technická universita, 1996, 134 s. ISBN 80-7078-354-0. info
- BARTÁK, Miroslav, Bořivoj ŠARAPATKA and František KOCOUREK. Speciální agroekologie. Ostrava: Vysoká škola báňská - Technická universita, 1996, 179 s. ISBN 80-7078-353-2. info
- Teaching methods
- The course is based on lectures and individual work with the study recourses. Group project and its presentation. Field excursion.
- Assessment methods
- The course is finished by an examination.
- Language of instruction
- Czech
- Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
- The course is taught annually.
- Enrolment Statistics (Spring 2013, recent)
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