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Course, academic year 2024/2025
  
Water in the Landscape - B217011
Title: Voda v krajině
Guaranteed by: Department of Water Technology and Environmental Engineering (217)
Faculty: Faculty of Environmental Technology
Actual: from 2024 to 2025
Semester: winter
Points: winter s.:4
E-Credits: winter s.:4
Examination process: winter s.:
Hours per week, examination: winter s.:2/1, C+Ex [HT]
Capacity: unlimited / unlimited (unknown)
Min. number of students: unlimited
Qualifications:  
State of the course: taught
Language: Czech
Teaching methods: full-time
Level:  
Note: course can be enrolled in outside the study plan
enabled for web enrollment
priority enrollment if the course is part of the study plan
Guarantor: Kujalová Hana Ing. Ph.D.
Říhová Ambrožová Jana doc. RNDr. Ph.D.
Šmejkalová Pavla Dr. Ing.
Classification: Chemistry > Environmental Chemistry
This subject contains the following additional online materials
Annotation -
The aim of the course is to introduce students to the importance, distribution and retention of water in natural and urbanized landscapes. The course deals with the importance of water for humans in terms of chemical, physical, biological, social and cultural aspects, the principles of water circulation on the planet and in user systems, the hydrological situation in our territory and the principles of sustainable water management. It introduces the possibilities of effective water retention in the landscape and how to prevent agricultural drought, the importance of water bodies in the landscape and the concept of their revitalisation. It partly focuses on the process of shaping the ecological character of the landscape in variously stressed environments of water biotopes and on the biota present. It introduces current topics such as water reuse, the impact of climate change on the hydrological regime of the landscape, blue-green infrastructure, limited water resources as a cause of international conflicts, etc. Theoretical knowledge is documented through concrete cases. Within the exercise, a large space is devoted to practical field training, independent monitoring of selected sites and discussion of current water management topics.
Last update: Kujalová Hana (12.05.2025)
Course completion requirements -

Conditions for obtaining credit: participation in a field exercise, participation in an excursion, preparation and defence of two individual projects.

Prerequisites for successful completion of the exam: achieving a minimum of 51 points out of 100 in the exam. Possibility of improving the grade B - E: by examination test in a make-up test, by prior arrangement.

Last update: Kujalová Hana (12.05.2025)
Literature -

Optional:

  • Říhová Ambrožová, Jana, Říhová Ambrožová, Jana, Biocenózy vodních biotopů, Říhová Ambrožová, Jana, Biocenózy vodních biotopů., Říhová Ambrožová, Jana, Biocenózy vodních biotopů.. Biocenózy vodních biotopů =, Biocenosis of water biotopes = Biocenosis de hábitat acuático. : , 2020, https://vufind.techlib.cz/Record/001873399 s. ISBN 978-80-7592-064-5.
  • Takashi A. et al.. Water reuse: Issues, Technologies, and Applications. : McGraw Hill Professional, 2007, s. ISBN 978-0-07-145927-3 .

Last update: Kujalová Hana (12.05.2025)
Requirements to the exam -

A condition for obtaining credit is the completion of a field exercise (biological monitoring - observation of the site, recording of the condition, sampling), laboratory processing and evaluation of samples taken during the field exercise, participation in an excursion and the defence of two individual projects:

1) characterization of a selected site in terms of water in the landscape or water use,

2) development of an educational case study.

The credit is followed by a written examination consisting of both closed and open questions, assessed with a maximum of 100 points. Any bonus points that the student may receive for presenting case studies for credit (maximum 10 points) are added to the points earned in the examination. To pass the examination, a minimum of 51 points in total is required. In case of failure or if the student wishes to correct the grade, a maximum of two correction terms are available.

The subject areas for the examination correspond to the course syllabus.

Last update: Kujalová Hana (12.05.2025)
Syllabus -

1. The importance of water and the water use by mankind. Distribution of world water supply, principles of water circulation on the planet and in user systems

2. Types of natural waters and their specifics. Oxygen conditions in surface waters; self-purification of natural waters.

3. Communities of stagnant and running waters. Biological monitoring of surface water quality, bioindicators

4. Hydrological conditions in the Czech Republic, water resources, water consumption

5. Retention and accumulation of water in the landscape. Water in the soil, infiltration

6. Ponds and small water bodies, their functions in the landscape

7. Revitalization of watercourses and reservoirs

8. Waterways in the Czech Republic, water structures on streams, migration permeability of watercourses

9. Water in agriculture (land reclamation, irrigation systems), the impact of agriculture on the hydrological conditions in the landscape

10.Water in forest ecosystems, evapotranspiration, biotic pump

11.Drought in the landscape (causes, consequences, measures)

12.Floods (causes, consequences, measures)

13.The influence of climate change on the processes of the hydrological cycle and on water resources. Global balance of water resources

14.Principles of sustainable water management, water reuse, water footprint

Last update: Kujalová Hana (12.05.2025)
Learning resources -

https://e-learning.vscht.cz

Last update: Kujalová Hana (08.01.2021)
Learning outcomes -

Students will be able to:

• understand the basic context of human activity and the aquatic ecosystem;

• assess the condition of the site in terms of water in the landscape or water management use;

• propose appropriate measures to improve the hydrological regime of agricultural or urbanised landscapes;

• understand the issues of sustainable water management.

Last update: Kujalová Hana (12.05.2025)
Teaching methods
Activity Credits Hours
Konzultace s vyučujícími 0.1 2
Účast na přednáškách 1 28
Příprava na přednášky, semináře, laboratoře, exkurzi nebo praxi 0.4 12
Práce na individuálním projektu 0.7 20
Příprava na zkoušku a její absolvování 1.3 36
Účast na seminářích 0.5 14
4 / 4 112 / 112
 
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