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Lecturer(s)
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Nováček Pavel, doc. RNDr. CSc.
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Opršal Zdeněk, doc. Mgr. Ph.D.
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Syrovátka Miroslav, doc. Mgr. Ph.D.
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Šafaříková Simona, Mgr. Ph.D.
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Course content
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The course Environmental geography is focused on interactions between humans and the natural world in the less developed countries, combining approaches of human geography and physical geography. The course will provide understandings of the ways environment and society are related and affect each other. The course address various topics, in the first part both theoretical and actual (real-world) links between the environment and human wellbeing are explored. This part describes the state and character of human wellbeing and environment interdependences in the case of four distinctive ecological systems which are common in developing world: draylands, (tropical) forest systems, mountains systems and finally urban systems. Second part deals with the possible responses and solutions on perceived problems of interactions between human beings and their environment. Hence traditional nature conservation and its alternatives (namely Community Based Nature Resource Management) are presented. According to the dynamism of the course final part may deal with the topical issues of environmental security and justice.
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Learning activities and teaching methods
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Monologic Lecture(Interpretation, Training), Dialogic Lecture (Discussion, Dialog, Brainstorming), Work with Text (with Book, Textbook)
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Learning outcomes
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The main aim of the course is to provide the understanding of the ways environment and society are related and interconnected in the less developed countries.
Upon completion of the course the student should be able to analyze interactions and challenges between humans and the natural world in the less developed countries
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Prerequisites
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Assessment methods and criteria
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Written exam, Essay
For succesful completion of the course, students are required to complete an exam covering the course material.
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Recommended literature
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Adams, W. M. (2020). Green Development: Environment and Sustainability in a Developing World. Fourth Edition. London, New York: Routledge.
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Botkin, D. B., Keller, E. A. (2003). Environmental Science. John Wiley, New York.
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Castree N. (et al.) (eds.). (2009). A companion to environmental geography. Wiley-Blackwell, Chichester.
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Davis, D. (2016). The Arid Lands. History, Power, Knowledge. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press.
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Goodman M. T., Boykoff M. T., Evered K. T. (eds.). (2008). Contentious geographies : environmental knowledge, meaning, scale. Ashgate, Aldershot, Burlington, Vt.
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Terborgh J. (et al.) (eds.). (2002). Making parks work : strategies for preserving tropical nature. Island Press, Washington.
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