Course Details

Landscape Restoration and Stability

Academic Year 2024/25

NSB020 course is part of 2 study plans

​ NPC-MI Winter Semester 1st year

​ NPC-SIV Winter Semester 2nd year

Types of the landscape, human influence on the landscape, main reasons of anthropogenic damage of the landscape
Devastation of the landscape during mining activities and its reclamation
Classification of reclamation, biotechnical reclamation, agricultural and forestry reclamation, new trends in reclamations in CR.
Ecological stability, landscape stability, territorial systems of ecological stability.
Landscape conservation.
Problems of water in landscape.
Restoration of landscape aqueous systems, restoration of small water courses in the landscape,
subsidies programs for CZ.

Credits

5 credits

Language of instruction

Czech

Semester

winter

Course Guarantor

Ing. Eva Hyánková, Ph.D.

Institute

Institute of Landscape Water Management

Forms and criteria of assessment

course-unit credit and examination

Entry Knowledge

Basic knowledge of natural science subjects.

Aims

Basic knowledge of landscape ecology, natural and cultural landscape, impact of human activities, landscape restoration, landscape stability, territorial systems of ecological satbility
Restoration of aquatic systems of the landscape
Student gains basic knowledge of landscape ecology, landscape restoration, landscape stability, territorial systems of ecological satbility and restoration of landscape aquatic systems.

Basic Literature

KRÁLOVÁ, Helena: Revitalizace a stabilita krajiny. VUT FAST (studijní opora), 2008. 
DEMEK, J.: Úvod do krajinné ekologie. 1999.
JUST, Tomáš a kol. Vodohospodářské revitalizace. MŽP, Praha, 2005. 359 s.
MADĚRA,P., ZIMOVÁ E.(eds.): Metodické postupy projektování lokálního ÚSES. MZLU, Brno, 2017.

Offered to foreign students

Not to offer

Course on BUT site

https://www.vut.cz/en/students/courses/detail/281797

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.