Course detail
Environmental Studies and Civil Engineering
FAST-CZ51Acad. year: 2013/2014
Ecology and environmental studies, nowadays situation of nature, environmental risks, environmental law, environmental economy, environmental ethics and ethic conceptions, anthropocentrism, biocentrism, deep ecology, sustainable development, ecology and technology, solutions of ecologic crisis, ecological life-style, transgresion, cognitive disonancy, psychological aspects of solution of crisis, ecology of the countryside, ecological house, nature & culture and civil engineering, ecological healthy living, EIA - evaluation of the influence of buildings on the environment.
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Course curriculum
2. Philosophical, social and political continuities in environmental issues.
3. Summary of environmental risks. Global warming, natural resources, waste etc.
4. Environmental law and the economy - does it even exist? Fundamentals, analysis and solutions.
5. Environmental ethics. Ethics of respect for life. Biocentrism. Ecocentrism. Deep ecology.
6. Sustainable development, healthy life-style. Principles, importance and the idea of the relationship 'economically + ecologically = for all time'.
7. The ecological building - fiction or future reality? Buildings without ecological load?
8. Nature, culture and civil engineering. Differences between the natural world and human civilization. EIA - evaluation of the influence of buildings on the environment.
9. Civil engineering as a factor influencing environmental change.
10. Approaches of value systems to environmental problems and crisises. Traditionalism, conservativism and liberalism. Ecological dictatorship.
11. Ecology of the countryside, settlements, urbanism and buildings. Housing and healthy living.
12. Modern and postmodern perspectives on the nature/culture duality.
13. The crisis of modernity and the new period in our relationship with nature. Globalization and its consequences.
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Basic literature
LIBROVÁ, Hana: Vlažní a váhaví. Brno: Veronica, 2003. ISBN 80-7239-149-6.
NAGY, Eugen: Nízkoenergetický ekologický dům. Bratislava: STU, 2002. ISBN 80-88905-74-5.
Recommended reading
DIRNER, Václav: Přehled environmentálních rizik. Ostrava: VŠB, 1992. ISBN 80-85380-38-5.
MEADOWS, Donella. H., MEADOWS, Dennis. L.: The Limits to Growth. New York: Univerze Books, 1972.
PYTLÍK, Petr: Ekologie ve stavebnictví. Praha: Spv, 1997. ISBN 80-85380-38-2.
Classification of course in study plans
- Programme N-K-C-SI Master's
branch S , 2 year of study, winter semester, elective
branch S , 2 year of study, winter semester, elective
branch S , 2 year of study, winter semester, elective
branch S , 2 year of study, winter semester, elective - Programme N-P-C-SI Master's
branch S , 2 year of study, winter semester, elective
branch S , 2 year of study, winter semester, elective
branch S , 2 year of study, winter semester, elective
branch S , 2 year of study, winter semester, elective - Programme N-P-E-SI Master's
branch S , 2 year of study, winter semester, elective
branch S , 2 year of study, winter semester, elective
branch S , 2 year of study, winter semester, elective
branch S , 2 year of study, winter semester, elective
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2. Philosophical, social and economic continuities in environmental issues. Understanding of the sence of ecologic crisis.
3. Summary of environmental risks. Global warming, natural resources, waste, renewable resources etc.
4. Environmental law and the economy - does it even exist? Fundamentals, analysis and solutions.
5. Environmental ethics. Importance of environmental ehics to thinking about the nature. Anthropocentrism. Ethics of respect for life. Biocentrism. Ecocentrism. Deep ecology. Substance, importance, examples.
6. Sustainable development, healthy life-style. Principles, importance. The idea of the relationship 'economically + ecologically = for all time'. Why do you have to reach sustainable development?
7. Nature, culture and civil engineering. Differences between the natural world and human civilization. EIA - evaluation of the influence of buildings on the environment.
8. Approaches of value systems to environmental problems and crisises. Traditionalism, conservativism and liberalism. Ecological dictatorship. Environmental economy and law.
9. The ecological building - fiction or future reality? Buildings without ecological load? Civil engineering as a factor influencing environmental change.
10. Social and technological problems of ecologic crisis. Aspects of environmental protection and health. Cities and the countryside later and nowadays.
11. Ways to environmental civil engineering. Ecology of the countryside, settlements, urbanism and buildings. Housing and healthy living. Environmental and non-environmental civil engineering.
12. Modern and postmodern perspectives on the nature/culture duality. Technological solutions of crisis (traffic, sustainable production and consumption, you and economy).
13. The crisis of modernity and the new period in our relationship with nature. Globalization and its consequences.