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Course, academic year 2025/2026
  
   
Raw materials safety I - M241001
Title: Surovinová bezpečnost I
Guaranteed by: Department of Sustainability and Product Ecology (241)
Faculty: Faculty of Environmental Technology
Actual: from 2024
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
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: Kavina Pavel Mgr. Ph.D.
Cílek Václav RNDr. CSc.
Annotation -
Mineral resources have been used by people since time immemorial. However, in the course of human history, the spectrum of commodities of interest, which are important or indispensable for human society, changes. Mineral resources are one of the two basic material inputs for human society and for industrial branches. We encounter mineral raw materials in the production of the entire spectrum of products and outputs, including modern electronics. Due to the importance of individual commodities, mineral resources have been contested throughout human history, and this competition has been fueled by the modernization of many former Third World countries in the last two decades. In these countries, the consumption of mineral resources is growing dynamically, new regional powers are emerging, and these countries have joined the global competition for mineral resources. The aim of the subject is to acquaint students with the categorization of mineral resources, with the importance of the main mineral resources in today's world, with the principles of functioning of the world market with mineral resources, with the role of individual global players in the competition for world mineral resources, with possible national strategies for the use of mineral resources, especially including latest European and national documents. Attention will also be paid to various approaches to ensuring the country's raw material security, the principles of creating state material reserves and modern technologies that enable responsible and careful management of mineral resources.
Last update: Kavina Pavel (02.05.2024)
Course completion requirements - Czech

Zápočet: zpracování seminární práce na téma vybrané z okruhu probíraného učiva v rozsahu cca 10 stran textu.

Last update: Kavina Pavel (02.05.2024)
Literature - Czech

Doporučená:

  • Sandip Hazareesingh, Harro Maat. Local Subversions of Colonial Cultures; Commodities and Anti-Commodities in Global History. US, New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015, 213 s. ISBN 9781137381095.
  • Amine Bouchentouf. Commodities for dummles (3rd. Ed.). Indiana: John Wiley & Sons Inc, 2023, 368 s. ISBN 9781394155156.
  • David J. Howden, Ph.D.. Commodities, the Decade Ahead: 2020 – 2030: Your guide to earning.... : David J. Howden, 2020, 761 s. ISBN 978-1734911619.
  • Edited by C. H. Evans. Episodes from the history of the rare Earth elements. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, U.S.A.: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1996, 240 s. ISBN 0-7923-4101-5.
  • edited by Robert Curley. Energy: past, present and future. Fossil fuels.. US, New York: Britannica Educational Publishing, 2012, 142 s. ISBN 9781615304912.
  • Marian Radetzki, Linda Wa°rell. A Handbook of Primary Commodities in the Global Economy. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020, 350 s. ISBN 9781108841542.
  • John Browne. Seven Elements That Have Changed the World: Iron, Carbon, Gold, Silver, Uranium, Titanium, Silicon. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2013, 304 s. ISBN 978-0297868057.
  • Václav Cílek, Ferdinand Šmikmátor. Ruka noci podaná.Základy rodinné a krizové připravenosti. Praha: Dokořán, 2018, 408 s. ISBN 978-80-7363-914-3.
  • Vaclav Smil. Energy and Civilization. US,Massachusetts Institute of Technology: The MIT Press, 2017, 552 s. ISBN 978-0262035774.
  • Vaclav Smil. The two prime movers of globalization: history and impact of diesel engines and gas turbines. In Journal of Global History. 2 (2007): 373-394.
  • Václav Cílek, Alexander Ač. Věk nerovnováhy. Praha: Academia, 2019, 346 s. ISBN 978-80-200-2930-0.

Last update: Kavina Pavel (12.05.2026)
Requirements to the exam - Czech

Zkouška: písemný test z probíraného učiva v rozsahu 20 stručných otázek s možností výběru správné odpovědi či s požadavkem na stručné vysvětlení nějakého jevu či principu.

Last update: Kavina Pavel (02.05.2024)
Syllabus -

1. Mineral raw materials, their definition, division, the concept of a mineral deposit, classification of stocks, the development of a view on the strategic nature of individual commodities.

2. Ore mineral raw materials, their importance, use, main occurrences of individual commodities in the world, main producers, development on the world market.

3. Fuel and energy raw materials, their importance, use, main occurrences of individual commodities in the world, main producers, development on the world market.

4. Non-ore and construction mineral raw materials, their importance, use, main occurrences of individual commodities in the world, main producers, development on the world market.

5. High tech commodities, non-traditional sources of mineral raw materials, raw materials of the future.

6. Competition for mineral resources within the world, changes in the world market of mineral raw materials in connection with the modernization of the countries of the former third world; the role of individual world powers (Japan, South Korea, China, India, Turkey, USA, EU, Russia), raw material diplomacy and its different concepts.

7. Trading in mineral raw materials, raw material alliances, raw material cartels, role and importance of commodity exchanges, price quotations.

8. European context of raw material security, Raw Materials Initiative, critical raw materials, their selection and expectations, Critical Raw Materials Act.

9. Raw material resources of the Czech Republic, main commodities and their role in the Czech economy, state raw material policy, Czech approach to the state's raw material security.

10. Import and export of mineral raw materials from the Czech Republic and to the Czech Republic, import dependence, diversification of supplies.

11. State material reserves, strategic reserves, oil security, energy security.

12. Recycling, material-saving technologies, modern trends in a gentle approach to the use of natural resources.

Last update: Kavina Pavel (02.05.2024)
Teaching methods
Activity Credits Hours
Obhajoba individuálního projektu 1 28
Účast na přednáškách 2 56
Práce na individuálním projektu 1 28
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