Sustainable management takes the concepts from sustainability and synthesizes them with the concepts of management having 3 branches: the environment, the needs of present and future generations, and the economy. Sustainable management of contaminated sites implies application of sustainable practices to the categories of polluted industrial, military, agricultural and abandoned sites by operation them in a way that well build current and future generation needs. Courses include formal lectures on targeted topics, informal lectures with questions and group discussions and case-studies from around the Europe. Lectures cover the following topics: "Principles of environmental sustainability", "Integrated resources management", "Environmental impact assessment", "Biotechnology for polluted sites treatment"; "Biomass production at the contaminated sites"; "Management of polluted sites in Czech Republic". Practical exercises imply: a) home-reading from the list based on peer-reviewed literature and short written responses in a form of essay, and b) observation of internet resources related to the topics. Course also included field trip and presentation of final student's project. Course includes results of the recently accomplished and currently implementing scientific & outreach projects in the region of Central and Eastern Europe: NATO Multiyear project "New phytotechnology with biomass production for the military contaminated sites"', Czech project REMKO Remediation of comprehensively polluted soils and ARTEC Research Centre Advanced Remediation Technologies, Interreg projects "Remediation of military past pollution in Baltic region" and "Revitalization of post-industrial areas in Central Europe", GEF project "Cleaning the POPs places in the Eastern Europe".
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