Course detail

Environmental Management

FSI-UERAcad. year: 2011/2012

Course is focused on a pressing issue of business ecology. At the same time, the students will obtain a basic overview of environmental legislation – individual acts, operation statistics and duties concerning businesses will be assessed.

Language of instruction

Czech

Number of ECTS credits

3

Mode of study

Not applicable.

Guarantor

Ing. Andrea Tabasová, Ph.D.

Department

Institute of Process Engineering (ÚPI)

Learning outcomes of the course unit

This course enables students to get acquainted with basic overview of legislation concerning environment components protection (the so called component acts) and legislation concerning protection against specific sources of environment endangerment. Obtained knowledge will enable students to assess businesses’ activity not only in terms of finances but also in terms of environment.

Prerequisites

Students should possess knowledge equal to five semesters at Faculty of Mechanical Engineering.

Co-requisites

Not applicable.

Planned learning activities and teaching methods

Teaching methods depend on the type of course unit as specified in the article 7 of BUT Rules for Studies and Examinations.

Assesment methods and criteria linked to learning outcomes

Students have to present a paper in order to get a classified credit. The students have to prove they obtained relevant knowledge at the end of semester.

Course curriculum

Lecture: 26 lessons, voluntary

Course curriculum:

1. General introduction to business ecology. Overview of valid legislation.
2. Act providing for chemical substances and preparations, relevant regulations. Duties of eligible individuals. Classification of hazardous substances and preparations.
3. Physical chemical characteristics of chemical substances and preparations. Safety sheets.
4. Packing industry – legal requirements, basic terms, individuals’ duties.
5. Act providing for air and relevant regulations.
6. Classification of air pollution sources. Calculation of fees for air pollution, operation statistics, overall operation statistics.
7. Basic regulations in the area of water management in practice. Application for permission to treat water, calculation of fees, controlling of defected substances storing.
8. Adjustment of technical and cooling waters. Biological and chemical waste water purification.
9. Transport of hazardous substances on highways and railways (ADR, RID).
10. Tools for practical application of environment protection – environmental audit, EMAS, EMS.
11. Integrated prevention in environment protection.
12. Act providing for environment impact assessment.
13. Economy of environment.

Seminars: 13 lessons, compulsory

Course curriculum:

1. Assignment of papers. Environmental policy in the CR and the EU.
2. Working with chemical substances and preparations database – HSDB, CHRIS, IRIS.
3. Written rules for chemical substances, preparations treatment, their risk for human lives.
4. Package labeling. Warning signs.
5. Air in the CR.
6. Operation Rules in accordance with Act providing for Air.
7. Practical case of water operation rules.
8. Practical case of water accident plans.
9. Kemler code. Written guidelines for hazardous chemical substances, preparations transport.
10. Practical case of carrying out an environmental audit of a business. Followed by a discussion.
11. Practical case of carrying out a IPPC form for an industrial business.
12. Practical case for carrying out an EIA for an industrial business. Followed by a discussion.
13. Paper presentation.

Work placements

Not applicable.

Aims

Introduction to the theory of environmental management in the area of company ecology. Overview of valid legislation, duties of individuals and entities. Methods and strategies applied in management of companies and businesses minimizing negative impact on environment. Presentation of terminology, methods and procedures applied in various areas of industrial activities, detailed specification of selected types of prevention.

Specification of controlled education, way of implementation and compensation for absences

Teaching methods: compulsory attendance in seminars, attendance sheets are managed. In justified cases, students may substitute lessons with individual projects (solution of practical case studies).

Recommended optional programme components

Not applicable.

Prerequisites and corequisites

Not applicable.

Basic literature

Not applicable.

Recommended reading

Technika prostředí [Janotková], skripta VUT, 1991
Ekologie– úvod do studia ekotechniky [Smolík, Kincl, Krpeš], skripta VŠB, 1992
Konference OSN o ŽP a rozvoji, Rio de Janeiro [Moldan], 1993
Ochrana životního prostředí [Herčík, Lapčík, Obroučka], skripta VŠB, 1995
Ochrana životního prostředí [Dirner a kol.], skripta VŠB
Podkladové materiály k uplatnění čistší produkce a prevence [ČCČP], 2003
Recyklace [Božek, Urban, Zemánek], 2003

Classification of course in study plans

  • Programme B3S-P Bachelor's

    branch B-EPE , 3. year of study, summer semester, compulsory-optional

Type of course unit

 

Lecture

26 hours, optionally

Teacher / Lecturer

Ing. Andrea Tabasová, Ph.D.

Syllabus

1. Basic principles of environmental protection, historical development, actual situation.
2. Specifications and parameters of biosphere, raw materials and energy sources.
3. Negative influence on particular parts of the environment by increasing production and consumption.
4. Environmental policy, situation in CZ and EU.
5. Environmental policy tools.
6. Cleaner production - history of development, fundamentals and potential.
7. Cleaner production tools.
8. Projects of cleaner production in a firm, communal and regional projects.
9. Life cycle analysis.
10. EIA process, its possibilities and realization procedure.
11. Integrated prevention of environment protection.
12. EMAS programmes, standards of ISO 9000 and ISO 14000.
13. Legislative protection and legislative tools of environmental policy.

labs and studios

13 hours, compulsory

Teacher / Lecturer

Ing. Andrea Tabasová, Ph.D.

Syllabus

1. Discussion about global problems and life values.
2. Discussion about existing non-uniformity at different spheres of action in the world.
3. Practical illustration of environmental audit of a firm.
4. Practical illustration of risk analysis of a firm.
5. Practical illustration of EIA procedure of a firm.
6. Excursion to chosen firm in Brno (1/2).
7. Excursion to chosen firm in Brno (2/2).
8. Excursion to Mokrá cement works and firm TASY (1/2).
9. Excursion to Mokrá cement works and firm TASY (2/2).
10. Excursion to Mokrá cement works and firm TASY (3/2).
11. Excursion to Mokrá cement works and firm TASY (4/2).
12. Discussion about the findings from the excursion
13. Discussion about semester and excursion papers.