FI:PV108 Environmentalistics - Course Information
PV108 Environmentalistics
Faculty of InformaticsAutumn 2006
- Extent and Intensity
- 2/0. 2 credit(s) (plus extra credits for completion). Recommended Type of Completion: k (colloquium). Other types of completion: z (credit).
- Teacher(s)
- prof. RNDr. Tomáš Pitner, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Mgr. Radek Holčák (assistant)
Mgr. Ondřej Míchal (assistant) - Guaranteed by
- prof. RNDr. Václav Matyáš, M.Sc., Ph.D.
Department of Computer Systems and Communications – Faculty of Informatics
Contact Person: prof. RNDr. Tomáš Pitner, Ph.D. - Timetable
- Wed 16:00–17:50 B204
- Prerequisites (in Czech)
- ! P108 Environmentalistics
- 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
- Applied Informatics (programme FI, B-AP)
- Applied Informatics (programme FI, N-AP)
- Informatics with another discipline (programme FI, B-BI)
- Informatics with another discipline (programme FI, B-FY)
- Informatics with another discipline (programme FI, B-GE)
- Informatics with another discipline (programme FI, B-GK)
- Informatics with another discipline (programme FI, B-CH)
- Informatics with another discipline (programme FI, B-IO)
- Informatics with another discipline (programme FI, B-MA)
- Informatics with another discipline (programme FI, B-SO)
- Informatics with another discipline (programme FI, B-TV)
- Informatics (programme FI, B-IN)
- Informatics (programme FI, M-IN)
- Informatics (programme FI, N-IN)
- Upper Secondary School Teacher Training in Informatics (programme FI, M-SS)
- Upper Secondary School Teacher Training in Informatics (programme FI, M-TV)
- Upper Secondary School Teacher Training in Informatics (programme FI, N-SS)
- Course objectives
- The course is an introduction to environmental science with emphasis on basic principles of sustainable development, especially in the field of IT.
- Syllabus
- Environment and the environment protection (basic concepts)
- Components of the environment: water, air, ground, nature and landscape, row materials, wastes
- Global environmental problems (climat changes, population explosion, reduction of biodiversity), sustainable development, Agenda 21
- The private and state sector roles in environmental protection
- Economic aspects of the environmental protection, globalization of the world economics
- Macro- and microeconomics of the environment, economic stimuli for environmental protection, systems for environmental management, environmental accounting and taxes
- Microenvironmentalistics - ecology of households and workplaces, agreements of good neighbourship
- Environmental information, freedom of access to environmental information, public participation in environmental issues
- Environmental impact of information technology
- Literature
- WEIZSÄCKER, Ernst Ulrich von, Amory B. LOVINS and Hunter L. LOVINSOVÁ. Faktor čtyři :dvojnásobný blahobyt - poloviční spotřeba přírodních zdrojů : nová zpráva Římskému klubu. Praha: Ministerstvo životního prostředí ČR, 1996, 331 s. ISBN 80-85368-85-4. info
- MOLDAN, Bedřich. Indikátory trvale udržitelného rozvoje. Ostrava: Vysoká škola báňská, 1996, 87 s. ISBN 80-7078-380-X. info
- MOLDAN, Bedřich. Ekonomické aspekty ochrany životního prostředí : situace v České republice. Vyd. 1. Praha: Univerzita Karlova, 1997, 307 s. ISBN 8071844349. info
- PRIMACK, Richard B. Biologické principy ochrany přírody. Translated by Pavel Kindlmann - Jana Jersáková. Vyd. 1. Praha: Portál, 2001, 349 s. ISBN 80-7178-552-0. info
- BALÁK, Rudolf. Nové zdroje energie. 2. přeprac. vyd. Praha: SNTL - Nakladatelství technické literatury, 1989, 205 s. URL info
- Assessment methods (in Czech)
- Podkladem pro průběžné hodnocení jsou dvě až tři samostatně vypracované eseje. První je obvykle na téma zadané vyučujícím, další na téma zadané nebo schválené. Závěrečné kolokvium je vedeno o tématu eseje a dalších probíraných partiích.
- Language of instruction
- Czech
- Follow-Up Courses
- Further Comments
- Study Materials
The course is taught annually. - Teacher's information
- http://is.muni.cz/el/1433/podzim2006/PV108/
- Enrolment Statistics (Autumn 2006, recent)
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