PřF:ENV002 Sustainable development - Course Information
ENV002 Sustainable development
Faculty of ScienceSpring 2013
- Extent and Intensity
- 2/0/0. 2 credit(s) (fasci plus compl plus > 4). Recommended Type of Completion: zk (examination). Other types of completion: k (colloquium), z (credit).
- Teacher(s)
- RNDr. Mgr. Michal Bittner, Ph.D. (lecturer)
- Guaranteed by
- prof. RNDr. Ivan Holoubek, CSc.
RECETOX – Faculty of Science
Contact Person: RNDr. Mgr. Michal Bittner, Ph.D.
Supplier department: RECETOX – Faculty of Science - Timetable
- Tue 13:00–14:50 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
- there are 8 fields of study the course is directly associated with, display
- Course objectives
- At the end of the course, students should be able to:
- understand and explain concept of sustainable development as a strategy of development of post-modern society, including indicators of sustainability and factual aplications in political and legal environment EU and Czech Rep.
- interpret the approaches of cleaner production and their scientific technical, technological, economic, legal, and governing tools
- submit reasonable recommendations how to implement concept of SD and where are the limits of the enforcement at global, national, regional and local scale - Syllabus
- 1) Global social and environmental issues, evolution of the economy and the environment
- 2) All the aspects of the sustainable development (SD) concept
- 3) Indicators of sustainability
- 4) Important international documents; international obligations of the Czech Rep.
- 5) National environmental policy of the Czech Rep. and its development
- 6) Environmental policy of EU a OECD.
- 7) Principles and the structure of Czech environmental legislation
- 8) Local Agenda 21
- 9) Principles and strategy of cleaner production
- 10) Realization of the cleaner production,
- 11) Role of scientists and technicians
- 12) Examples of cleaner production introduction in various industrail sectors.
- 13) Environmental management of companies and the tools
- 14) Economical and legal tools of cleaner production
- Literature
- MOLDAN, Bedřich. Podmaněná planeta. Vyd. 1. Praha: Karolinum, 2009, 419 s. ISBN 9788024615806. info
- KOLÁŘOVÁ, Hana. Udržitelný rozvoj : hledání cest, které nekončí. Praha: Centrum pro otázky životního prostředí Univerzity Karlovy, 2006, 186 s. ISBN 8087076028. info
- MOLDAN, Bedřich. (Ne)udržitelný rozvoj : ekologie, hrozba i naděje. 2. vyd. V Praze: Univerzita Karlova v Praze, nakladatelství Karolinum, 2003, 141 s. ISBN 8024607697. info
- Teaching methods
- Education is performed as lectures with Powerpoint prezentation. They are encouraged to ask questions and be in interaction with the lecturer.
- Assessment methods
- Final written test with possibility of oral revision.
- Language of instruction
- Czech
- Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
- Study Materials
The course is taught annually.
- Enrolment Statistics (Spring 2013, recent)
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