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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.
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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.
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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 - Programme N-P-E-CE 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