Z0131 Sustainability

Faculty of Science
Autumn 2014
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. Mgr. Gustav Novotný, Ph.D. (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.
Supplier department: Department of Geography – Earth Sciences Section – Faculty of Science
Timetable
Wed 16:00–16:50 Z4,02028
  • Timetable of Seminar Groups:
Z0131/01: Thu 16:00–17:50 Z5,02004, G. Novotný
Z0131/02: Thu 16:00–17:50 Z5,02004, G. Novotný
Prerequisites (in Czech)
KREDITY_MIN(40)
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 40 student(s).
Current registration and enrolment status: enrolled: 0/40, only registered: 0/40
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 in landscape ecosystems understood as capital providing 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 assess relations of economy, society, culture, politics, ecology and technology in urban/rural communities
Syllabus
  • 1. Physical landscape components, processes,biodiversity, landscape ecosystems and their natural capital/resources 2. Valuing the nature values and preferences, rationality, social norms, incommensurability, institutions 3. Landscape evaluation, carrying capacity,assets-stock-yield-income, hazards and risks, EIA, SEA 4. Environmental science and ecology , political ecology, ideology, policy of 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, 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 12. Millennium Ecosystem Assessment 13. National and EU environmental policy in period 2014-2020
Literature
  • Alcamo, Joseph et al. Millennium Ecosystem Assessment: Ecosystems and Human Well-Being, Island Press, available at: www.millenniumassessment.org/en/Framework.aspx, 2003.
  • 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.
  • 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
  • FORSYTH, Tim. Critical political ecology : the politics of environmental science. London: Routledge, 2003, xvi, 320. ISBN 0415185637. 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
Teaching methods
lectures, class discussion, brainstorming, team work, field survey, community persons debate, presentations, numeracy and literacy, graficacy, GIS technologies, final report and contribution to scientific periodical
Assessment methods
-field survey -sustainability project -current presentations -final assessment
Language of instruction
Czech
Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
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 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 2008, Autumn 2009, Autumn 2010, Autumn 2011, Autumn 2011 - acreditation, Autumn 2012, Autumn 2013, Autumn 2015, Autumn 2016, autumn 2017, Autumn 2018.
  • Enrolment Statistics (Autumn 2014, recent)
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