Course Details

Landscape Restoration and Stability

Academic Year 2025/26

NSB022 course is part of 1 study plan

​ NPC-ARS / ARA Winter Semester 2nd year

Course Guarantor

Ing. Eva Hyánková, Ph.D.

Institute

Institute of Landscape Water Management

Language of instruction

Czech

Credits

3 credits

Semester

winter

Forms and criteria of assessment

course-unit credit and examination

Offered to foreign students

Not to offer

Course on BUT site

https://www.vut.cz/en/students/courses/detail/296016

Lecture

13 weeks, 2 hours/week, elective

Syllabus

  • 1. Introduction to landscape ecology. Nomenclature. Literature. Natural and cultural landscape.
  • 2. Historical development of Czech landscape. Characteristics of Czech landscape. Urban sprawl.
  • 3. Ecological stability. Landscape ecological stability. Categories of geobiocenical types.
  • 4. Territorial systems of ecological stability. Examples of designes and realizations.
  • 5. Main reasons of landscape devastation by human activities, degradational and recovery processes in landscape.
  • 6. Characteristics of areas devastated by mining. Ways of reclamation. Biotechnical reclamation. Agricultural, forestry, hydric reclamation. Reclamation financing. New trends in reclamation, controlled succession. Examples of successful reclamation.
  • 7. Importance of water elements in landscape. Wetlands, pools, ponds.
  • 8. River systems restoration. Examples of successful river restorations in CZ and abroad.
  • 9. Erosion control, soil quality and protection.
  • 10. Natural forest management, grasslands protection, invasive species.
  • 11. Architecture in harmony with landscape. Principles of good development practice in landscape.
  • 12. Landscape formation programms. Subsidy programs for river restorations.
  • 13. Convention on European landscape. Nature and landscape conservation. Legislation.

Exercise

13 weeks, 1 hours/week, compulsory

Syllabus

  • 1. Introduction. Rules. Publications and on-line sources of information. On-line maps.
  • 2. Landscape mapping methodology. Examples. Selection of the territory for mapping.
  • 3.–4. Landscape mapping - terrain work.
  • 5. Coefficient of ecological stability.
  • 6. Design of territorial system of ecological stability.
  • 7. Drawing up of project: Mapping and evaluation of landscape.
  • 8. Presentations of individual projects.
  • 12. Predicting soil loss from water erosion and solving of erosoion control on chosen area.
  • 13. Control, completion, obtaining of credits.