MRS/XGEP Global Environmental Issues

Lecturers: Pavel Nováček, Jaromír Harmáček
Lecture: 2 hours/week
Credits: 4
Winter semester
Form of course completion: exam

The aim of the course is to introduce students to global environmental problems.

• Global issues – definition
• Evolution of the life on the Earth
• Basic facts about biosphere
• Changes and catastrophes in the history caused by natural factors
• Definition of human´s environment during 40 thousand years of cultural evolution
• Impact and meaning of agriculture revolution and industrial revolution
• Characteristic of chosen global issues: violence, population trends, nutrition problems, health status of inhabitants, poverty
• Definitions of environmental crises: endanger of biodiversity, maintenance of forests, soil and water, spread of deserts, pollution of atmosphere and disturbance of climate
• Other global issues: energy, resources, waste, human residence, using of oceans, seas and Antarctica, institutional system
• International activities leading to change of the current state
• Vision of global Marshall plan