ZA331 Environmental geography

Přírodovědecká fakulta
podzim 2024
Rozsah
2/1/0. 5 kr. Ukončení: zk.
Vyučováno kontaktně
Vyučující
doc. RNDr. Zdeněk Máčka, Ph.D. (přednášející)
Garance
doc. RNDr. Zdeněk Máčka, Ph.D.
Geografický ústav – Sekce věd o Zemi – Přírodovědecká fakulta
Kontaktní osoba: doc. RNDr. Zdeněk Máčka, Ph.D.
Dodavatelské pracoviště: Geografický ústav – Sekce věd o Zemi – Přírodovědecká fakulta
Rozvrh
Út 12:00–13:50 Z5,02004
  • Rozvrh seminárních/paralelních skupin:
ZA331/01: St 9:00–9:50 Z5,02004, Z. Máčka
Předpoklady
Basic knowledge of physical and human geography acquired during undergradute studies.
Omezení zápisu do předmětu
Předmět je určen pouze studentům mateřských oborů.
Mateřské obory/plány
Cíle předmětu
The main goal of the course is a systematic review of the various components of the natural environment and human interaction with these components. The main environmental challenges, their causes, impacts and human attitudes to these challenges will be presented. Series of lectures on human impact on componets of natural environment forms a core of the course. Lectures are accompanied with the supervised discussions and problem solving excersises related to lecture topics.
Výstupy z učení
After completing the course, student will be able:
- Identify and explain principal environmental challenges which humans are facing in the context of global environmental change;
- Systematically describe the interactions of humans with the components of natural environment (litosphere, hydroshepere, atmosphere, cryosphere, biosphere);
- Identify and describe the present day international (scientific, political) action to cope with the global environmental change and degradation of natural environment.
Osnova
  • 1. Environmental geography and sustainability: Introducing the concepts
  • 2. Human population and Earth carrying capacity
  • 3. Why biodiversity is important?
  • 4. How does the global climate change?
  • 5. Water: How do we use it and affect its quality?
  • 6. Land: Interactions of humans with landforms and soils
  • 7. Agriculture and food security: How do we feed ourselves?
  • 8. Energy: from fossil fuels to alternative resources
  • 9. Waste: Where all that stuff we use disappear?
  • 10. How does the environment affect our health?
  • 11. Decision making: Why are choices matter?
  • 12. How policy making influence sustainability?
  • 13. What can I do? The ways towards personal environmental responsibility
Literatura
    doporučená literatura
  • MARSH, William M. a John GROSSA. Environmental geography : science, land use, and earth systems. 3rd ed. New York: J. Wiley, 2005, 455 s. ISBN 0471482803. info
    neurčeno
  • GOUDIE, Andrew. The human impact on the natural environment : past, present, and future. 6th ed. Malden, Mass.: Blackwell Publishing, 2006, xv, 357. ISBN 140512704X. info
Výukové metody
- The course involves lectures, supervised discussions, classroom problem solving
- Students compleate assigned reading during semester
- Field excursions in south Moravia region may be prepared for students on demand
Metody hodnocení
- Students are obliged to pass a series of quizes during semester
- The course is passed with an exam
Vyučovací jazyk
Angličtina
Studijní opora
https://is.muni.cz/auth/ucitel/io/seznam?fakulta=1431;obdobi=9543;predmet=1621861;uvodnik=a
Další komentáře
Studijní materiály
  • Statistika zápisu (nejnovější)
  • Permalink: https://is.muni.cz/predmet/sci/podzim2024/ZA331