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Geography
FAST-GE55Acad. year: 2023/2024
Landscape field its structure and development during time. Basic shapes of Earth’s relief and processes and their modulation. Climate making factors, climate influence on development of relief, soil and vegetation. Weather. Water and its role in physical-geographic field. Karst areas and their development. Foundations of socio economic geography. Geographic incidence on Earth movement. Modern methods of geographic research. Summary regional geography of the world, continents and the Czech Republic. Geographic approach to creations of topographic and theme cartographic works.
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Students will manage theoretical basics of landscape sphere studies and their single components against background of ecology and environmental protection problems. They will refresh their region-geographic knowledge of single world continents and Czech republic as well in context of contemporary social and political situation.
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BIČÍK, Ivan a kol.: Regionální zeměpis světadílů. Praha: ČGS, 2007. (CS)
BRÁZDIL, R. a kol.: Úvod do studia planety Země. Praha: SPN, 1988. (CS)
DEMEK, Jaromír, QUITT, Evžen, RAUŠER, Jaroslav: Úvod do obecné fyzické geografie. Praha: Academia, 1975. (CS)
HRALA, Václav, KAŠPAR, Václav, VITVAROVÁ, Irina: Geografie světového hospodářství. Praha: VŠE, 1996. (CS)
kolektiv: Anatomie Země. Albatros, 1995. (CS)
NETOPIL, Rostislav: Hydrologie pevnin. Praha: Academia, 1972. (CS)
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