Description:

General information about interaction between human beings and their environment. Information about water quality and pollution, flood hazard, air and soil pollution, landscape utilization and protection, soil erosion, climate change, sustainability, waste production and disposal, energy production and consumption. Questions of ethics, philosophy and globalization are discussed together. The topics are given on basic information level, respecting various backgrounds of the students.

Contents:

1. Introduction into Environmental Engineering
2. Social, economical and environmental framework
3. Sustainable development
4. Basics of ecology
5. Atmosphere ? air pollution, ozone layer
6. Atmosphere ? solar radiation, greenhouse effect, Kyoto and Montreal protocols
7. Water ? sources, water pollution and waste water treatment
8. Water ? hydrological cycle, floods, droughts
9. Soil ? formation, classification, soil water
10. Waste management
11. Land reclamation and recultivation

Seminar contents:

Seminars: a team work focused on an evaluation of the environmental impact of a selected project.

Recommended literature:

(1) Environmental Engineering, fifth edition, Salvato A.J. et al., John Wiley & Sons - 2003 , (2) Fundamentals of Environmental Engineering, Martin J.L. et al., Technology - 1998, (3) internet sources

Keywords:

environment, natural resources, sustainable development

Abbreviations used:

Semester:

• W ... winter semester (usually October - February)
• S ... spring semester (usually March - June)
• W,S ... both semesters

Mode of completion of the course:

• A ... Assessment (no grade is given to this course but credits are awarded. You will receive only P (Passed) of F (Failed) and number of credits)
• GA ... Graded Assessment (a grade is awarded for this course)
• EX ... Examination (a grade is awarded for this course)
• A, EX ... Examination (the award of Assessment is a precondition for taking the Examination in the given subject, a grade is awarded for this course)

Weekly load (hours per week):

• P ... lecture
• C ... seminar
• L ... laboratory
• R ... proseminar
• S ... seminar