Course Details

Landscape Restoration and Stability

Academic Year 2024/25

CS053 course is not part of any programme in the faculty

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. Nomenclature. Natural landscape 2. Cultural landscape. Ecological stability. Landscape stability 3. - 4. Character of area devastated by mining. 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. River landscape. Wetlands, pools and other water elements in the landscape. Evaluation of river restoration, maintenance, problems. 8. Subsidies programs, examples of restoration from CR and foreign countries.

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. - 6. Landscape mapping and evaluation project. 7. - 8. Presentations of individual projects.