Z0131 Sustainability

Faculty of Science
Autumn 2008
Extent and Intensity
1/2/0. 3 credit(s) (plus extra credits for completion). Recommended Type of Completion: zk (examination). Other types of completion: k (colloquium).
Teacher(s)
doc. RNDr. Alois Hynek, CSc. (lecturer)
RNDr. Jan Trávníček (seminar tutor)
Guaranteed by
prof. RNDr. Rudolf Brázdil, DrSc.
Department of Geography – Earth Sciences Section – Faculty of Science
Contact Person: doc. RNDr. Alois Hynek, CSc.
Timetable
Fri 10:00–10:50 Z3,02045
  • Timetable of Seminar Groups:
Z0131/01: Thu 13:00–14:50 Z4,02028, J. Trávníček
Z0131/02: Wed 8:00–9:50 Z3,02045, J. Trávníček
Prerequisites (in Czech)
PROGRAM(B-AG) || PROGRAM(N-BI) || PROGRAM(N-MA) || PROGRAM(N-CH) || PROGRAM(N-GK)
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is only offered to the students of the study fields the course is directly associated with.

The capacity limit for the course is 42 student(s).
Current registration and enrolment status: enrolled: 0/42, only registered: 0/42
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
there are 6 fields of study the course is directly associated with, display
Course objectives
Main objectives can be summarized as follows: to understand the basic interaction between humans and nature and landscape ecosystem as capital with services for people and biota to learn the practical applications of sustainability in regional policy to analyze the impact of human activities upon physical landscapes to elaborate the ways of balance between nature protection/conservation and human needs to delineate the principals of precautionality, inter-generation and actual responsibility to understand and analyze relations of economy, society, culture, politics, ecology and technology
Syllabus
  • 1. Physical landscape components, processes, resources, ecosystems, biodiversity 2. Valuing the nature values and preferences, rationality, social norms, incommensurability, institutions 3. Landscape evaluation, carrying capacity, hazards and risks, EIA, SEA 4. Environment and ecology science, ideology, policy hard and soft sustainability 5. Sustainable communities development, capital, policy, localities 6. Greening the city water, sewage, waste, energy, air, biodiversity 7. Urban land use and form, transport, housing, governance 8. Rural sustainability agriculture, forestry, wildlife, energy and minerals, military sites, tourism, rural policy 9. Sustainable drainage basins, national parks, protected landscapes, reserves 10. Regional sustainability RESPEC(T)S, scenarios, strategies, programmes, projects 11. International political context and cooperation, EU structural funds, social construction, power and resistance
Literature
  • Heynen Nik,McCarthy James, Prudham Scott, and Robbins Paul. Neoliberal Environments.False promises and unnatural consequences. London and New York: Routledge, 2007.298 pp. ISBN 978-0-415-77149-8.
  • Alcamo, Joseph et al. Millennium Ecosystem Assessment: Ecosystems and Human Well-Being, Island Press, available at: www.millenniumassessment.org/en/Framework.aspx, 2003.
  • HYNEK, Alois, Nikola HYNEK, Vladimír HERBER and Christian SCHREFEL. Environmental Security in Borderland Areas: Exploring the Znojmo/Retz Transborder Region. Vienna: 17&4 Organisationsberatung, 2007. ISBN 978-3-9502304-0-6. info
  • LÖW, Jiří and Igor MÍCHAL. Krajinný ráz. 1. vyd. Kostelec nad Černými Lesy: Lesnická práce, 2003, 552 s. ISBN 80-86386-27-9. info
  • WRIGHT, Richard T. and Bernard J. NEBEL. Environmental science :toward a sustainable future. 8th ed. Upper Saddle River: Pearson education, 2002, xix, 681 s. ISBN 0-13-032538-4. info
  • DALBY, Simon. Environmental security. London: University of Minnesota Press, 2002, xxxii, 239. ISBN 0816640262. info
  • RAO, Pinninti Krishna. Sustainable development : economics and policy. Malden, Massachusetts: Blackwell Publishers, 2000, xviii, 393. ISBN 0-631-20993-X. info
Assessment methods
field survey, sustainability project, current presentations, final assessment
Language of instruction
Czech
Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
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 2007 - for the purpose of the accreditation, Autumn 1999, Autumn 2010 - only for the accreditation, Autumn 2001, Autumn 2003, Autumn 2004, Autumn 2005, Autumn 2006, Autumn 2007, Autumn 2009, Autumn 2010, Autumn 2011, Autumn 2011 - acreditation, Autumn 2012, Autumn 2013, Autumn 2014, Autumn 2015, Autumn 2016, autumn 2017, Autumn 2018.
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