Ze2BP_PSC5 Natural Components of Landscape

Faculty of Education
Autumn 2009
Extent and Intensity
0/1/0. 1 credit(s). Type of Completion: z (credit).
Teacher(s)
prof. RNDr. Jaromír Kolejka, CSc. (seminar tutor)
Guaranteed by
prof. RNDr. Jaromír Kolejka, CSc.
Department of Geography – Faculty of Education
Contact Person: Kateřina Brabcová
Prerequisites
The student must be able to cover basic terms of the area of individual natural landscape components (geology, geomorphology, climatology, meteorology, hydrology, soil science and biology), have a general overview about the interference of these components in a territorial environmental system and damaging processes related with these factors in the landscape.
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 16 student(s).
Current registration and enrolment status: enrolled: 0/16, only registered: 0/16, only registered with preference (fields directly associated with the programme): 0/16
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
Course objectives
The aim of the subject is the acquisition of a holistic understanding of the environment as an integrated system based on natural landscape components. Students will be instructed in a conception of mutual relationships between all the components, including their natural and human influenced dynamics and evolution, or changes. Such kind of understanding can positively support the right decision making under standard and unusual situations. This way, another aim of the subject is to introduce students into the area of natural damaging processes linked with individual natural landscape components. After the successfull subject completing, the student should be able to indentify and generally assess the level of risk in the real landscape using component maps.
Syllabus
  • Subject contents:
  • 1. The atmosphere and its coupling with other landscape components. Selected aspects of human impacts on it.
  • 2. The hydrosphere and its coupling with other landscape components. Selected aspects of human impacts on it.
  • 3. The lithosphere with land forms and their coupling with other landscape components. Selected aspects of human impacts on them.
  • 4. The soil cover and its coupling with other landscape components. Selected aspects of human impacts on it.
  • 5. The living organisms and their coupling with other landscape components. Selected aspects of human impacts on them.
  • 6. Landscape synthesis and landscape planning – introduction, educational applications, utilizing in every day life.
  • 7. The role of geography teacher in the decision making process under local conditions.
  • 8. Terms: natural risk, natural hazard, disaster.
  • 9. Natural risk classification using selected viewpoints.
  • 10. Erosion of soils.
  • 11. Landslides.
  • 12. Rock fall.
  • 13. Floods.
  • 14. Avalanches.
  • 15. Drought.
  • 16. Forest fires.
Literature
  • Hory a nížiny (Variant.) : Zeměpisný lexikon České socialistické republiky. [D. 2], Hory a nížiny. Edited by Jaromír Demek. info
  • ZAPLETAL, L. Úvod do antropogenní geomorfologie. Olomouc: Učební texty Palackého univerzity Olomouc, 1969. info
  • MÁČKA, Zdeněk. Reliéf (Geomorphological setting). In Vybrané přírodní extrémy a jejich dopady na Moravě a ve Slezsku. Brno - Praha - Ostrava: Masarykova univerzita - Český hydrometeorologický ústav - Ústav geoniky AV ČR, v.v.i., 2007, p. 29 - 44. publikační výstup projektu GA205/03/0211. ISBN 978-80-210-4173-8. info
  • HAVRLANT, Miroslav. Biogeografie Československa. Vyd. 1. V Ostravě: Pedagogická fakulta v Ostravě, 1979, 117 s. info
  • BUZEK, Ladislav and Miroslav HAVRLANT. Základy geomorfologie a biogeografie. 1. vyd. V Ostravě: Pedagogická fakulta v Ostravě, 1977, 289 s. info
  • CZUDEK, Tadeáš. Reliéf Moravy a Slezska v kvartéru. Tišnov: Sursum, 1997, 213 s. ISBN 80-85799-27-8. info
  • DEMEK, Jaromír. Geomorfologie českých zemí. Vyd. 1. Praha: Nakladatelství Československé akademie věd, 1965, 335 s. info
  • DEMEK, Jaromír. Obecná geomorfologie. Vyd. 1. Praha: Academia, 1987, 476 s. URL info
  • HYNEK, Alois. Pedogeografie. Vyd. 1. Praha: Státní pedagogické nakladatelství, 1984, 320 s. URL info
  • ZEMAN, Antonín and Jaromír DEMEK. Kvartér : geologie a geomorfologie. Vyd. 1. Praha: Státní pedagogické nakladatelství, 1984, 192 s. info
  • KARÁSEK, Jaromír. Základy obecné geomorfologie (Principles of general geomorphology). 1st ed. Brno: Masarykova univerzita Brno, 2001, 216 pp. Učební texty. ISBN 80-210-2567-0. info
Assessment methods
Introductory lectures dealing with individual themes, tuitioning and discussions, seminary thesis delivery.
Language of instruction
Czech
Follow-Up Courses
Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
The course is taught annually.
The course is taught: every week.
The course is also listed under the following terms Autumn 2004, Autumn 2005, Autumn 2006, Autumn 2007, Autumn 2008.
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