Thematic areas: 1. Organisation of Nature Protection in the Czech Republic - the role and significance of state nature protection, non-governmental organisations, public participation, land associations, etc. 2. Types and categories of protected areas, professional, economic, and social aspects of their declaration and acceptance. 3. Planning and implementation of care for specially protected areas - regional nature and landscape conservation concepts, care principles, management plans, types of practical measures, funding, cooperation with owners. 4. Practical implementation of species protection - inventory, monitoring, measures, rescue programmes, care programmes, regional action plans. 5. Protection of landscape character and diversity - land-use planning, building regulation, NATURA 2000, fragmentation and connectivity. 6. Protection and care of forest ecosystems, transformation of historically altered forest ecosystems, emissions damage, climate change, biotic influences (insect calamities, game damages), economic approaches. 7. Protection, renaturation, and revitalisation of wetland and water ecosystems - restoring water regimes of peatlands, forests, and agricultural landscapes, migratory connectivity of watercourses, creation of wetland habitats. 8. Protection and care of meadow ecosystems, methods of restoration and preservation of meadow diversity, threatening factors and methodology for recording meadow habitats, adaptive management cycle, meadow management plans. 9. Protection of Arctic-alpine tundra and primary non-forest areas in general, threatening factors, the concept of non-intervention versus active nature management and their practical realisation. 10. Protection and care of non-forest greenery, memorial and significant trees, practical protection of non-living nature. 11. Conflict between conservation objects and economic interests - damages caused by protected species, wolf care programme including contingency plans, support for compensatory measures, damage compensation, damages due to difficult management (forestry, agricultural, fishing) and their payment. 12. Recreational and sporting use of protected areas, visitor monitoring, regulation, education, nature protection patrols. 13. International nature protection in the Liberec region - Natura 2000, Ramsar, UNESCO MAB, WH, and Geopark, cross-border cooperation. 14. Financial tools in practical nature conservation, planning measures, selection of contractors, project funding, information sources for planning and implementation of nature protection.
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Learning outcomes: The student will gain a comprehensive overview of the practical aspects of nature and landscape protection in the Czech Republic within a specific regional and cross-border context. The student will become familiar with the practical application of individual disciplines and specialisations in conservation practice, as well as their interrelations and interactions. The student will understand the societal significance of nature protection as a legislatively anchored public interest and its position relative to other public interests within the current socio-economic reality. The student will acquire an overview of the various entities involved in planning, management, implementation, funding, and interpretation of nature and landscape protection, including their rights, obligations, competencies, and mutual relationships.
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