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Course, academic year 2025/2026
  
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 2025
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: unknown / unknown (unknown)
Min. number of students: unlimited
Qualifications: Interdisciplinarity, Tools and instruments
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
Examination dates   Schedule   
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)
Teaching methods -

Lectures with student engagement in discussions on practical case studies, and practical experience mediated and analyzed by a field expert. Skill development, support for independent work on an individual project, and working with feedback during exercises.

Last update: Rippelová Veronika (29.08.2025)
Requirements to the exam -

To earn credit, students must complete at least 80% of all ongoing assignments for their individual project. The assignments are distributed via e-learning, and each task is graded on a scale of 0–1 points. If an assignment is not completed satisfactorily, there is an option to retake it. The final exam consists of a presentation of the individual project and an oral exam. The project presentation will account for 40% of the total course grade, and the oral final exam will account for 60%.

Last update: Rippelová Veronika (28.08.2025)
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 -

Upon completion of this course, students will gain a comprehensive approach to risk analysis of contaminated sites. They will learn to work with legislative requirements and master risk analysis and quantification methods. This will enable them to effectively interpret and evaluate risks, and subsequently propose appropriate remedial measures.

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
4 / 4 112 / 112
Coursework assessment
Form Significance
Defense of an individual project 40
Oral examination 60

 
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