E0380 Selected Tools for Environmental Protection - EIA and LCA

Faculty of Science
Autumn 2024
Extent and Intensity
2/0/0. 2 credit(s) (plus extra credits for completion). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
In-person direct teaching
Teacher(s)
RNDr. Mgr. Michal Bittner, Ph.D. (lecturer)
experti z praxe (lecturer), RNDr. Mgr. Michal Bittner, Ph.D. (deputy)
Guaranteed by
prof. Martin Scheringer, Dr. sc. nat.
RECETOX – Faculty of Science
Contact Person: prof. Martin Scheringer, Dr. sc. nat.
Supplier department: RECETOX – Faculty of Science
Timetable
Fri 12:00–13:50 D29/252-RCX1
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
Course objectives
The course gives a complex overview on environmental protection using various types of legislative tools. In more details, there are discussed two types of these tools - Environmental impact assessment (EIA) – as an example from the group of conceptual tools, and Life cycle assessment (LCA) as an example from the group of voluntary tools.
Learning outcomes
At the end of this course, students should be able to:
- orient in the contemporary legislative of EIA, including the links to the EU legislative
- define and explain basic topics and steps of EIA
- identify potential critical points of individual intents with regard to environment
- classify impacts on environment (direct, indirect, synergism, temporal aspects etc.)
- interpret the data from EIA information system Czech Environmental Agency
- involve public to EIA
- defend meaning of the life cycle assessment (LCA) as a method that is useful if we strive to minimize the impact of industrial production on the environment
- explain how is possible to assess the impacts on the environment, and the utility of obtained results
- suggest how to optimize the process of the manufacturing or service in order to minimize their impact on the environment in their whole life cycle
- practically perform simple LCA with SimaPro software
- interpret obtained results with their critical assessment
Syllabus
  • 1) Introduction – characterization of groups of legislative environment protecting tools, such as Conceptual tools (e.g. EIA), Voluntary tools (e.g. LCA), Administrative, Normative, Economic and Information tools. Introduction to the field of LCA, their principles, and defending of the meaning of LCA.
  • 2) Definition of aims and the scope of the study, functional unit, inventarization
  • 3) Impacts assessment modeling, use of dedicated software such as SimaPro.
  • 4) Impact categories (resources depletion, climatic changes, human health, ecosystem quality...).
  • 5) Interpretation of the life cycle and critical revision of the LCA study.
  • 6) Sources of information, use of LCA, software tools.
  • 7) Familiarization with Environmental Impact Assessment process - the methodology of the greatness and the significance of impacts assessment.
  • 8) The screening process, scoping process, scope and significance valuation of impacts on the selected environmental field.
  • 9) Methodology of the documentation processing - entry data, sources and correctness of the data, description of the technology and building, specification of concerning area, determination of pained villages in the assessment process, obligatory and optional variants of the buildings or objects, the assessment of expected impacts meaning, and the objectivity of acquired results.
  • 10) The review of the environmental impact assessment documentation (the object and purpose of the review, methodology, the proposal of the viewpoint) and the public discussion of the review.
  • 11) The role of the citizens in the process.
  • 12) Introduction to strategic environmental assessment (SEA).
Literature
    recommended literature
  • ANDĚL P.: Posuzování vlivů na životní prostředí. – Studijní materiál, RECETOX, Brno 2013, 66 s.
  • KOČÍ, Vladimír. Posuzování životního cyklu. Vyd. 1. Chrudim: Vodní zdroje Ekomonitor, 2009, 263 s. ISBN 9788086832425. info
    not specified
  • Zákon č, 100/2001 Sb. o posuzování vlivu na životní prostředí v platném znění.
  • BAUMANN, Henrikke and Anne-Marie TILLMAN. The hitch hiker's guide to LCA : an orientation in life cycle assessment methodology and application. Lund: Studentlitteratur, 2004, 543 s. ISBN 9144023642. info
  • ŘÍHA, Josef. Hodnocení vlivu investic na životní prostředí : vícekriteriální analýza a EIA. 1. vyd. Praha: Academia, 1995, 348 s. ISBN 8020002421. info
  • DUSÍK, Jiří and Zdeněk KOUBA. EIA :principy procesu posuzování vlivů na životní prostředí. Praha: PEAC, 1994, v, 73 s. ISBN 80-901771-0-7. info
  • Rukověť EIA. Praha, 1993. info
Teaching methods
Education is performed as lectures with Powerpoint presentation. Students are frequently asked to think about the actual topic. They are encouraged to ask questions and be in interaction with the lecturer. Part of the subject also works with programme SimaPro, exercises of evaluation of environmental impacts and the seminar focusing on seminar works (this work is drawn up as a model documentation of EIA).
Assessment methods
Evaluation of seminar work, final written and oral examination.
Language of instruction
Czech
Further Comments
Study Materials
The course can also be completed outside the examination period.
The course is taught annually.
The course is also listed under the following terms Autumn 2020, Autumn 2022.
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