ENS262 Block Experts in NGOs

Faculty of Social Studies
Spring 2014
Extent and Intensity
2/0. 3 credit(s). Type of Completion: z (credit).
Teacher(s)
Ing. Zbyněk Ulčák, Ph.D. (seminar tutor)
Guaranteed by
doc. Mgr. Bohuslav Binka, Ph.D.
Department of Environmental Studies – Faculty of Social Studies
Contact Person: Bc. Petra Burišková
Supplier department: Department of Environmental Studies – Faculty of Social Studies
Timetable
Tue 11:30–13:00 P51 Posluchárna V. Čermáka
Prerequisites (in Czech)
!NOWANY( HEN420 Guest lectures II )
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
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Course objectives
At the end of the course students should be able to describe and classify specific topics of the semestr and to integrate knowledge of broad range of presented topics. The lectures of individual experts are grouped according to theme.
Syllabus
  • 2 hour lectures take place every week.
  • The list of lecturers and topics of their lectures is announced in greater details in the more concrete syllabus that can be found in Study Materials of IS (Information System).
Literature
    recommended literature
  • Routledge research in environmental politics. info
  • CHEVALIER, Jacques M. and Daniel BUCKLES. Participatory action research : theory and methods for engaged inquiry. 1st ed. London: Routledge, 2013, xxi, 469. ISBN 9780203107386. info
  • Human-nature interactions in the anthropocene : potentials of social-ecological systems analysis. Edited by Marion Glaser. Abington, Oxon: Routledge, 2012, xvi, 231. ISBN 9780415510004. info
  • JACQUES, David and Jan WOUDSTRA. Landscape modernism renounced : the career of Christopher Tunnard (1910-1979). New York: Routledge, 2009, xxiv, 263. ISBN 9780415497220. info
  • The urban and regional planning reader. Edited by Eugenie Ladner Birch. New York: Routledge, 2009, xviii, 441. ISBN 9780415319980. URL info
  • MILLER, G. Tyler. Living in the environment : principles, connections, and solutions. 12th ed. Belmont: Brooks/Cole Publishing Company, 2002, xx, 758. ISBN 0534376975. info
  • CROALL, Stephen and William RANKIN. Introducing environmental politics. Cambridge: Icon books, 2000, 169 s. ISBN 1-84046-159-4. info
  • Debating the earth :the environmental politics reader. Edited by John S. Dryzek - David Schlosberg. 1st pub. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998, x, 609 s. ISBN 0-19-878227-6. info
  • HARDY, Dennis. From garden cities to new towns : campaigning for town and country planning, 1899-1946. 1st ed. New York: E & FN Spon, 1991, x, 340. ISBN 0419155708. info
  • Planning and urban growth in the Nordic countries. Edited by Thomas Hall. New York: Taylor & Francis, 1991, [xiv], 271. ISBN 9780415511889. info
Teaching methods
Lecturers who live outside Brno and cannot participate for the entire term will teach a two-hour class each in this section. Experts from various professional sectors (research institutes, government,...) will share their everyday experience of solving environmental problems with students.
Assessment methods
Final critical essay.
Language of instruction
Czech
Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
Study Materials
The course is taught annually.
The course is also listed under the following terms Spring 2013, Spring 2015.
  • Enrolment Statistics (Spring 2014, recent)
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