Course Details
Landscape Restoration and Stability
Academic Year 2024/25
Course Guarantor
Institute
Language of instruction
Czech
Credits
5 credits
Semester
winter
Forms and criteria of assessment
course-unit credit and examination
Offered to foreign students
Not to offer
Course on BUT site
Lecture
13 weeks, 2 hours/week, elective
Syllabus
1. Introduction to landscape ecology. Landscape ecology as a scientific discipline. Nomenclature.
2. Natural landscape. Cultural landscape. Disturbed landscape.
3. Ecological stability. Landscape stability and methods of its evaluation.
4. Devastated landscape. Ways and phases of recultivation. Biotechnical phase of reclamation. Agricultural reclamation, plants. Forestry reclamation, suitable wood species. Other ways of reclamation.
5. Landscape restoration. Territorial systems of ecological stability.
6. Urban sprawl, low impact development. Landscape conservation.
7. Water in landscape. Problems in river basin, problems of improper river modifications. Wetlands, pools and other water elements in the landscape.
8. Restoration of landscape water systems. Basic principles, technical solutions of restoration and river migration passability.
9. Evaluation of river restoration, maintenance, problems. Examples of restoration from CR and foreign countries.
10. Nature and landscape conservation in CR, legislation. Subsidies programs.
Exercise
13 weeks, 2 hours/week, compulsory
Syllabus
1. Introduction. Rules. Publications and on-line sources of information. On-line maps.
2. Landscape mapping methodology. Examples. Coefficient of ecological stability. Selection of the territory for mapping.
3.-4. Landscape mapping - terrain work.
5.–6. Evaluation of terrain landscape mapping.
7.–8. Design of part of territorial systems of ecological stability.
9.-10. Presentations of individual projects.