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Course, academic year 2024/2025
  
Risk Assessment in Contaminated Land Management - M240024
Title: Analýza rizik kontaminovaného území
Guaranteed by: Department of Environmental Chemistry (240)
Faculty: Faculty of Environmental Technology
Actual: from 2024 to 2024
Semester: summer
Points: summer s.:4
E-Credits: summer s.:4
Examination process: summer s.:
Hours per week, examination: summer s.:2/1, C+Ex [HT]
Capacity: 10 / 10 (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
Guarantor: Rippelová Veronika Ing. Ph.D.
Classification: Chemistry > Analytical Chemistry
This subject contains the following additional online materials
Annotation -
This course outlines strategies for risk assessment and risk management of contaminated sites. It focuses on the explanation of fundamental concepts, principles, and methods of risk assessment, determination of the hazard level posed by a chemical, exposure pathways evaluation, human health assessment, and ecological risk assessment.
Last update: Rippelová Veronika (28.08.2025)
Course completion requirements -

Attendance at lectures is recommended, but not controlled.

Last update: Rippelová Veronika (28.08.2025)
Literature -

Recommended:

Optional:

  • Mackay, Donald. Multimedia environmental models, the fugacity approach. Chelsea: Lewis, 1991, 257 s. s. ISBN 0-87371-242-0.
  • Mackay, Donald, Shiu, Wan Ying, Ma, Kuo-Ching, Lee, Sum Chi. Handbook of physical-chemical properties and environmental fate for organic chemicals. Boca Raton: CRC/Taylor & Francis, 2006, s. ISBN 1-56670-687-4.

Last update: Rippelová Veronika (29.08.2025)
Syllabus -

1. Fundamentals of environmental risk assessment

2. Contaminated sites

3. Survey of contaminated sites

4. Migration pathways evaluation

5. Hazard identification

6. Conceptual site model and exposure scenarios

7. Toxicological databases as a data source

8. Specific toxicological effect of selected contaminants

9. Human health risk assessment

10. Ecological risk assessment

11. Models for environmental risk assessment

12. Risk analysis in remediation of ecological burdens

13. Risk management of contaminated sites

14. Socio-economic aspects

Last update: Rippelová Veronika (05.02.2025)
Learning outcomes -

After successfully passing the exam, the students will get theoretical background of risk analysis as well as practical experience with risk quantification. Acquired skills are applicable in the field of remediation of ecological burdens.

Last update: Rippelová Veronika (29.08.2025)
Entry requirements -

Fundamentals of environmental chemistry.

Last update: Rippelová Veronika (05.02.2025)
Teaching methods
Activity Credits Hours
Obhajoba individuálního projektu 0.5 14
Účast na přednáškách 1.5 42
Práce na individuálním projektu 1 28
Příprava na zkoušku a její absolvování 0.5 14
Účast na seminářích 0.5 14
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