UVSRPV0107 Environmental Policy

Faculty of Public Policies in Opava
Summer 2025

The course is not taught in Summer 2025

Extent and Intensity
0/2/0. 3 credit(s). Type of Completion: z (credit).
Teacher(s)
doc. Ing. Miloš Zapletal, Dr. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
doc. Ing. Miloš Zapletal, Dr.
Institute of Public Administration and Social Policy – Faculty of Public Policies in Opava
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
Course objectives
The aim of the course is to provide the students with fundamental concepts, processes, principles and instruments of environmental policy both on general level and in the frame of EU and the Czech republic. The way out of the course is the outline of ecological aspects and impacts of modern civilisation development. The students will be presented the primary ecological terms, current global issues of environment and subsequently also the main periods, streams and concepts of ecological movement from the second half of the 20th century. The second part of the course deals with ecological policy proper - it presents the cycle of policy of environment, its participants and instruments to students. After this general outline, the brief outline of development, principal documents and current strategies and projects of environmental policy of EU follow. The final part of the course provides the outline of current state of environment in the Czech republic and presents the conceptual, institutional and law development of ecological policy in the Czech republic including its political and social connections.
Syllabus
  • 1. Individual and environment
    2. Current global issues of environment
    3. Origin of ecological policy, ecological movements, concepts and schools in the second half of the 20th century
    4. Global ecology of the 21st century and its political reflexion
    5. Environmental policy- general classification
    6. Political cycle, participants and instruments of environmental policy
    7. Origin and development of environment of EU
    8. Current targets and instruments of environment policy of EU
    9. Environment in the Czech republic
    10. Environmental policy in the Czech republic - programme, legislative and institutional frame
    11. Civil sector in environmental policy in the Czech republic
    12. Perspectives and issues of environmental policy
Literature
    required literature
  • MEZEŘICKÝ, Václav (ed.). Environmentální politika a udržitelný rozvoj. Praha: Portál, 2005. ISBN 80-7367-003-8. info
  • BRANIŠ, M. Základy ekologie a ochrany životního prostředí. Praha: Informatorium, 2004. info
  • MEZEŘICKÝ, Václav (ed.). Globalizace. Praha: Portál, 2003. info
  • PEČÍNKA, P. Zelená zleva?. Historie ekologických stran v Evropě. Praha: GplusG, 2002. info
Teaching methods
Interactive lecture
Lecture supplemented with a discussion
Assessment methods
The analysis of student 's performance
Language of instruction
Czech
Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
The course can also be completed outside the examination period.
Teacher's information
Seminar paper analysing environmental policy on the level of selected municipality (SWOT analysis, analysis of conceptual and development documents, evaluation of their fulfilling).
The course is also listed under the following terms Summer 1994, Summer 1995, Summer 1996, Summer 1997, Summer 1998, Summer 1999, Summer 2000, Summer 2001, Summer 2002, Summer 2003, Summer 2004, Summer 2005, Winter 2005, Summer 2007, Winter 2007, Winter 2008, Winter 2009, Winter 2010, Winter 2011, Winter 2012, Winter 2013, Winter 2014, Winter 2015, Winter 2016, Summer 2017, Summer 2018, Summer 2019, Summer 2020, Summer 2021, Summer 2022, Summer 2023, Summer 2024.
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