Course detail

Environmental Studies and Civil Engineering

FAST-CZ51Acad. year: 2009/2010

Ecology and environmentalistics, environmental risks, law, economy and ethics, sustainable development, life style, ecology of country, ecologic home, nature, culture and civil engineering, ecological living, EIA - environmental impact assessment.

Language of instruction

Czech

Number of ECTS credits

2

Mode of study

Not applicable.

Department

Institute of Social Sciences (SPV)

Learning outcomes of the course unit

Circumstances of environmental problems with technics and civil engineering. Applicatioin of environmental principles, ideas and opinions into relation among ecology-technics-culture-civil engineering.

Prerequisites

Basic knowledges about ecology terminology (in secondary school level), ecosystems, elementar imagines about relation of man and nature, intuitive suggestions for influence of building to country ecology, defending and creating of environment, imagines about possibilities of ecologic enginnering and ecologic living, general knowledge of principles of sustainability development, general knowledge of ecological risk in world.

Co-requisites

Not applicable.

Planned learning activities and teaching methods

Not applicable.

Assesment methods and criteria linked to learning outcomes

Requirements for successful completion of the subject are specified by guarantor’s regulation updated for every academic year.

Course curriculum

1. Human environmentalistics and ecology, agreement and differences. Importance of environmentalistics.
2. Philosophical, sociological and political continuities in environmantal problems.
3. Summary of environmental risks. Global warm up, sources, waste.
4. Environmental law and economy - does exist it? Substance, analysis, solutions.
5. Environmental ethics. Ethics of respect for living. Biocentrism. Ecocentrism. Deep ecology.
6. Sustainable development, health live-style. Principles, importance and idea of relation economically + ecologically = always.
7. Ecological building - the fiction and reality? Home without ecological load.
8. Nature, culture and civil engineering. Differences between nature and human civilization. EIA - rating of influence of buildings to environment.
9. Civil engineering as a factor of environmental change.
10. Value solutions of environemntal problems and crisises. Traditionalism, conservativism, liberalism. Ecologic dictature.
11. Ecology of nature, seats, urbanism and buildings. Living and healthy living.
12. Modern and postmodern perspectives in duality nature - culture.
13. The crisis of modernity and new period in relation to nature. Globalization and its consequence.

Work placements

Not applicable.

Aims

Concretization of imagines about relationship nature - man - culture. Principles of modern thinking about technics and nature vith view to sustainable development. Understanding of argumentes of ecological view to world, the role of ecological ethics, law, economy, culture and global life-style in relation to modern technical increase. Trying to indicating of ways for future, perspectives of environmental life and environmental civil engineering.

Specification of controlled education, way of implementation and compensation for absences

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

Recommended optional programme components

Not applicable.

Prerequisites and corequisites

Not applicable.

Basic literature

LIBROVÁ, Hana: Pestří a zelení. Brno: Veronica, 1994. ISBN 80-85368-18-8.
NAGY, Eugen: Nízkoenergetický ekologický dům. Bratislava: STU, 2002. ISBN 80-88905-74-5.
LIBROVÁ, Hana: Vlažní a váhaví. Brno: Veronica, 2003. ISBN 80-7239-149-6.

Recommended reading

MEADOWS, Donella. H., MEADOWS, Dennis. L.: The Limits to Growth. New York: Univerze Books, 1972.
DIRNER, Václav: Přehled environmentálních rizik. Ostrava: VŠB, 1992. ISBN 80-85380-38-5.
CEPEK, Václav: Ekologické stavitelství. Ostrava: VŠB-TU, 1996. ISBN 80-7078-220-X.
PYTLÍK, Petr: Ekologie ve stavebnictví. Praha: Spv, 1997. ISBN 80-85380-38-2.

Classification of course in study plans

  • Programme N-P-C-SI Master's

    branch S , 1. year of study, summer semester, elective
    branch S , 1. year of study, summer semester, elective

  • Programme N-P-E-CE Master's

    branch M , 1. year of study, summer semester, elective

  • Programme N-P-C-SI Master's

    branch M , 1. year of study, summer semester, elective

  • Programme N-K-C-SI Master's

    branch M , 1. year of study, summer semester, elective

  • Programme N-P-E-CE Master's

    branch K , 1. year of study, summer semester, elective

  • Programme N-P-C-SI Master's

    branch K , 1. year of study, summer semester, elective

  • Programme N-K-C-SI Master's

    branch K , 1. year of study, summer semester, elective

Type of course unit

 

Lecture

26 hours, obligation not entered

Teacher / Lecturer