Content of lectures: 1) Water as a physical, chemical and biological phenomenon enabling life on Earth 2) Water retention in the landscape - importance, influence of land cover, soil properties and vegetation, landscape drainage and its consequences 3) Flooding issues: main types, how risk can be reduced, holistic x deterministic approach, major floods in the country and around the world and 4) Drought problems in the Czech Republic and worldwide, trends 5) Water and vegetation and their importance for the energy balance in the landscape - importance of water in formation of local - regional climate 6) Global issues - principles, trends 7) Climate change in context 1 8) Climate change in context 2 9) Desertification - natural x anthropogenic, evolution, consequences 10) Deforestation - implications for climate, water retention, examples from the Czech Republic and the world 11) Examples of solutions to global problems - Big green wall project - Africa, Green Belt - London, large scale wetland restoration - Indonesia 12) Methods of assessing environmental change - long term time series data, data taken at large spatial scales - Remote Sensing 13) Discussion and synthesis, future perspectives
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Cílek V., Just T.,Sůvová T. a kol. (2017): Voda a Krajina, Dokořán, 200s.
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Hite, K. H., Seitz, J. L. (2021): Global Issues: An Introduction. John Wiley & Sons, 400pp..
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