Czech

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Institute of Structural Economics and Management (EKR)

Students will become familiar with the economic evaluation of environmental impacts on the economy.
Students will orient themselves in legislation related to environmental protection.
Students will learn the basic principles of environmental management.
Students will gain an overview in ecological labeling.
Students will become familiar with the most current environmental problems.

General knowledge within the scope of the bachelor’s level of architectural studies.

Economic evaluation of public and environmental goods, law and legislation

The course is taught through lectures and self-study assignments. Attendance at lectures is optional.

The exam is written with possibility of oral part. In the frame of written part student will answer defined questions, to pass this part student must reach min. 50 % of points. Oral part serves for specification of classification.

1. Basic terms, global environmental problems – atmosphere and climate, water resources, deforestation, extinction of species and other selected problems.
2. State of the environment of the Czech Republic and its developmental trends – air, water, soil, biota.
3. General relationship between the market economy and the environment – the term ‘externalities’, natural resources and their evaluation, macroeconomic and microeconomic optimums of environmental quality.
4. Legal regulations for the protection of the environment in the Czech Republic – basic and general legal norms, particular legal norms (protection of the countryside, air and water).
5. Legal regulations for the protection of the environment in the Czech Republic – specific legal norms (soil protection, handling of waste, other components of the environment), related legal norms, harmonization of the legal regulations of the Czech Republic and the EU.
6. Administrative and economic tools in the protection of the environment – tools of negative and positive stimulation.
7. Ecological management of companies – systems of ecological management, environmental norms, environmental accounting.
8. Strategic approaches towards the solution of environmental problems – reactive and proactive approaches, technology used in the cleaning of waste gases and water, handling of waste, recycling.
9. The concept of permanently sustainable development, and selected tools and measures which support its enforcement – environmental auditing and the EIA method, SEA, ecolabelling, ecological tax reform.
10. Natural science and land-use aspects of the protection of the living environment – land-use systems for the ecological stability of landscapes, linkage to land-use planning.
11. Ecological policy – international events and initiatives, the ecological policy of the Czech Republic.
12. Institutional support of care for the living environment in the Czech Republic – public administration, non-governmental organizations.
13. The ecological policy of the EU – environmental action plans, interaction of economic and ecological policy.

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The aim of the subject is to teach the students to understand various interactions between the economy and the environment and acquaint them with the relevant strategies and specific tools which are aimed at the reduction of negative externalities generated by economic development.

Extent and forms are specified by guarantor’s regulation updated for every academic year.

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ENDRES, Alfred: Environmental Economics, Theory and Policy. University of Hagen, Germany, 2011. ISBN 9780521173926. (EN)
VITURKA, Milan: Základy environmentální ekonomie. Brno: ESF MU, 1997. ISBN 80-210-1514-4. (CS)

MOLDÁN, Bedřich a BRANIŠ, Martin: Globální problémy životního prostředí. Portál, Praha, 2003. ISBN: 80–7178–745–5. (CS)