Course Details
Landscape Restoration and Stability
Academic Year 2025/26
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.