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Sport and Environment

Class at Faculty of Physical Education and Sport |
PSPP424NC

Syllabus

In this semester we will address the following topics:

Introduction - program for this semester (Jana Dlouhá, Jiří Dlouhý).

General environmental problems, air and water pollution (Jana Dlouhá)

Nature protection in general and in the Czech Republic (Jiří Šafránek)

Global environmental problems (Jana Dlouhá)

The state of the environment in the Czech Republic (Jiří Dlouhý)

Lifestyle - Environmental Impacts (Jana Dlouhá)

Food - environmental and health context (Dana Kapitulčinová)

Climate change and its effects (Jiří Dlouhý)

Climate change solution - adaptation and mitigation measures, policy, incl. UR policy (Jiří Dlouhý)

Topics from practice: organization of sports events in nature, plastics, landscape, water, agriculture (Jiří Dlouhý)

Waste issues and principles of domestic ecology (Jana Dlouhá)

Ecology of operation of sports facilities + Olympic movement and good practice (Jana Dlouhá)

Environmental policy, laws, examples of conflict between nature protection and sport (Jiří Dlouhý)

Principles of ecological education and their application in outdoor activities (Jana Dlouhá)

Man and nature: philosophy, psychology, ethics. Conclusions of the seminar - assessment of works, etc.

These topics can be supplemented or changed, according to the interest of students

Annotation

The course deals with the relationship between sports and physical education against the background of global and regional ecological problems activities, tourism and environmental tourism. It seeks for relationships between these activities, but also everyday life, permanently sustainable development of human society on planet

Earth.