Course: Management of Small-Scale Protected Areas

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Course title Management of Small-Scale Protected Areas
Course code KZP/6MSSA
Organizational form of instruction Lecture
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
Lecturer(s)
  • Hejcman Michal, prof. doc. RNDr. Ph.D.
  • Rouhani Abdulmannan
Course content
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.

Learning activities and teaching methods
unspecified
Recommended literature
  • EAGLES, P. et al. Tourism in national parks and protected areas. Missoula: University of Montana, 2004.
  • HANNA, K. et al. Transforming parks and protected areas. New York: Routledge, 2008.
  • LOCKWOOD. M. et al. Managing protected areas: A global guide. London: Earthscan, 2006.
  • MORAVEC, J. Management of Protected Areas. Ústí n. L.: UJEP, 2014.
  • SELLARS, R. Preserving Nature in the National Parks. A History. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1997.


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