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Forensic Ecotechnics, Forest and Wood Species
ÚSI-1RDFEAcad. year: 2011/2012
The course is focused on issues relevant to relationships and connections in the complex of forest-trees-man.
Content targeting: the forest - biological organism; the development of relation of man and forest; trees - basic identification; the main criteria for assessing trees; forestry disciplines (forest establishment, forest tending, forest protection and regeneration of forest); forest valuation, forest stand, non-forest stand and ornamental trees; fees and expenses; legal legislation on the subject.
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system FOREST-TREES-MAN; code of judicial ethics expert; necessary terminology
2. System identification and assessment of conditions and structures of the expert object-
with emphasis on forest and trees; FEld systemic metodology
3. Typologically integral part of expertise in relevant fields
4. Forest - biological organism: what is a forest; developing relationship between man and
forest; example in the part of the Šumava region
5. Forest ecosystem - the diversity of forest stands and signs stands; Forensic
ecotechnique:forest and trees - a system approach to the solution
6. Basic forestry disciplines in a holistic concept of forest- brief survey; Basic principles
of forest management - forest maps; FEld and linkage to the European Union - from the
perspective of the needs of the expert
7. Trees (set of mostly taxon tree) - important components of forest and permanent diffused
green in urban and outdoor (free) landscape; tree taxa (requirements for knowledge, basic
identification, distinguishing features)
8. Nomenclature; morphology, physiology (variability, biological and ecological requirements);
trees in anthropogenic ecosystems
9. Method of contact valuing vegetation „CFA“; Special visual diagnostic metodology;
Reduction factor RKFA
10.Safety diagnostics: symptoms, defects and variations in growth and wood structure
affecting stability; Tree individual, identifying and assessing risks of its failure -
chronic risks to human factor aspects and forest ecosystem
11.Valuing - valuation of forest: valuation of natural resources; special forest; Forest
valuation theory; basic inputs for the valuation; Applied Forest valuation
12.issue of determining the amount of damage to forest; valuation of non-productive functions
of forest; assessment and valuation of biotopes; ecological damage
13.Valuing-valuation of trees and their stands on non-forest land: measurement of ornamental
plants (trees); memorial trees; determine the age of trees growing outside the forest (the
origin of generative, vegetative); International valuation standards IVS/EVS
14.Literature
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Specification of controlled education, way of implementation and compensation for absences
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Basic literature
Recommended reading
Alexandr, P. – Roček, I. (1991): Technika a technologie výroby lesních štěpek. VŠZ Praha a Ústav aplikované ekologie a ekotechniky. 1991. 132 stran.
Alexandr, P.: Forenzní ekotechnika: les a dřeviny. Vybrané části kapitol 1. (část), 2. (část), 3. (část) a kompletní kapitola 7. Přednáška, specializační studium technického znalectví v oboru „Oceňování nemovitostí 37/N. VÚT v Brně – Ústav soudního inženýrství. Prosinec 2007.75 stran.
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Forenzní ekotechnika.pdf 1.06 MB