| Course title | Management of Small-Scale Protected Areas |
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| Course code | KZP/5MSSA |
| Organizational form of instruction | Lecture + Lesson |
| Level of course | Master |
| Year of study | 2 |
| Semester | Winter |
| Number of ECTS credits | 3 |
| Language of instruction | English |
| Status of course | Compulsory-optional |
| Form of instruction | unspecified |
| Work placements | unspecified |
| Recommended optional programme components | None |
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1. Selected small-scale protected areas in the Czech Republic and Europe. Nature reserves and natural monuments in North Bohemia. Categories of small-scale protected areas. 2. Financing and administration of small-scale protected areas in the Czech Republic and abroad. Public financial sources. Protected areas on private lands. Private protected areas and protected areas managed by NGO´s. 3. European biodiversity conservation and landscape protection. European Landscape Convention. Green Infrastructure. 4. Natura 2000 system. Principles and practices of Natura 2000 localities. Legislation. Priority habitats. Monitoring and reporting. 5. Nature and landscape restoration efforts. Restoration of mires and wet grasslands. Restoration of rivers and floodplains. 6. Environmental policy instruments and land-based biodiversity conservation. Typology of environmental policy instruments of nature conservation and landscape protection. Legal regulation and economic instruments. 7. Agri-environmental measures and their significance in biodiversity conservation. Agricultural land ecosystems. Sustainable and organic agriculture. Protected areas on agricultural land. EU and national subsidies. 8. Forest-environmental measures, other forestry subsidies and their significance in biodiversity conservation. Forest land ecosystems. Sustainable forestry. Protected areas on forest land. EU and national subsidies. 9. Law enforcement and program evaluation. Impact and enforcement of legal regulation. Evaluation of efficiency of public expense programs. 10. Legal regulation and economic instruments of nature conservation and landscape protection in European countries and in North America. Selected cases from various European countries and from English-speaking North America. 11. A fieldtrip to a small-scale protected area in North Bohemia or in Saxony. 12. Summary of the course and final examination.
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