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Nature as Myth
Charvát, Jakub ; Češka, Jakub (advisor) ; Skovajsa, Marek (referee)
What exactly do we mean by "nature"? What do people expect from "nature"? And how has our understanding of it changed? The M.A. thesis "Nature as Myth", using Barthe's two-tiered system of signs and myths as a methodological tool, attempts to answer these questions through an examination of various historical and literary sources. The thesis has a chronological structure, consisting of four parts: 19th century, 1918-1938, 1938-1989, and from 1989 until the present. It focuses on fiction, memoir, and the history of "back to nature" movements. It also deals with environmental and aesthetic issues. The last section touches on the representation of nature in advertisement. The thesis will demonstrate that in all four of the time periods the most common depiction of nature is as a place of escape - both literally and figuratively. key words: nature, hiking, tramping, scouting, woodcraft, recreation in the cabins and cottages, ecology
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Clavarioid fungi: overview of their systematics and data on diversity in the Czech Republic
Matouš, Jan ; Holec, Jan (advisor) ; Tomšovský, Michal (referee)
In the first part of my bachelor thesis Clavariaceae family is characterized in historical, morphological and ecological perspective and three main genera Clavaria, Clavulinopsis and Ramariopsis with clavarioid and ramarioid morphology of fruit body are described. The second part surveys the development of their systematics and discusses the most important genera, which in certain phases of the system progress emerged in the Clavariaceae family. It also put emphasis on the characters that led the autors to their conclusions and on the development of the generic concept of the three mentioned clavarioid genera. The third part summarizes older and recent knowledge on the diversity of the three mentioned genera in the Czech Republic on the basis of the literature data. Species that have been found in the Czech Republic are listed and are briefly characterized from an ecological perspective. Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)
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A green canon? What, how and why "the colourful and the green" read.
Dosoudilová, Anna ; Bílek, Petr (advisor) ; Heczková, Libuše (referee)
The thesis is based on questionnaire survey conducted among 136 so called "green and colourful" respondents. The term "the colourful and the green" comes from the professor of environmental sociology, Hana Librová, and refers to people living the ecologically beneficial lifestyle that can be characterized by voluntary or intentional modesty. The target of the survey was to find out whether these people are influenced in their lifestyle by books or which books would articulate their worldview the best; what books they resonate with. Often repeated titles formed a "green influential literary canon" that is further analyzed in the thesis. First, the canon as a whole is examined, second the three most frequent books are studied with an ecocritical approach. In the canon, a minimum titles from the field of deep ecology, nature writing as well as science fiction or utopia were registered. Despite the expectation, there were many books related to New Age movement in the canon as well as pop-cultural spiritual writings. Nevertheless, books concerning native americans, together with eco- philosophical works largely dominated. Functions that the publications fulfill for the readers are seen as a clamp of diverse books in the canon. There are three main functions defined and further explained:...
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Ecology of pollination networks
Hadrava, Jiří ; Janšta, Petr (advisor) ; Novotný, Vojtěch (referee)
In communities, plants and pollinators are organized into complex network of relations. Description of structure in this network can contribute to understanding of community dynamics and persistence of biodiversity. Better understanding of patterns in assemblages of plants and pollinators may also help in their protection. The aim of this work is to review recent methodological principles in the pollination network analyses and to show potential problems in concept of ecological networks. Graph theory is breefly summarized and applied to the description of pollination networks. As an example, results on comparison of communities from different geographical sites are given.
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Concepts of "value-action gap" and "knowing-doing gap" on the example of reports on the state of natural environment
Knybel, Ondřej ; Balon, Jan (advisor) ; Hájek, Martin (referee)
Concept "value-action gap" is most often mentioned in frame of behavioral studies of individial approach to ecological issues. Its meaning lies in description of a gap that opens between values claimed by respondents and their consequent actions (people act in accordance with values which are different than those pro-environmental values that they originally signed up to). There also is a concept of "knowing-doing gap" which stems from a different context and describes different situations. Its authors demonstrate how many corporations/firms/organizations employ disfunctional/ineffective management practices and ways of work organization - and all that in a situation when responsible employees and managers know about better practices. Furthermore, those employees are being continually educated about those more effective practices; corporation/firm also has plans of implementation of those done by hired consultants and all those plans would have had better results, should they be implemented. But despite this knowledge and good experiences of other organizations - managers keep on working using old inefective means. In this text I examined whether it is possible to identify a combination of those two concepts/phenomena in a frame of discourse related to expert knowledge about a state of natural...
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Three Gorges Dam: Official Chinese View and its Problems
Hrubá, Alena ; Zádrapa, Lukáš (advisor) ; Hudeček, Jiří (referee)
This bachelor thesis focuses on the project of Three Gorges Dam. It further describes and analyses the official chinese views and its problems. The first part of the thesis focuses on the general characteristics of the project, its role in national economy and energetics. The second part of the thesis analyses how the official chinese views are reflected in the electronic version of newspaper articles. The main emphasis is the evolution of the chinese point of view and the contrast of that opinion with the rest of the world which is shown by articles published in well-known western daily newspapers like "The Washington Post", "The Guardian" and "The New York Times".
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Economy and ecology of biomass utilization
Plíšek, Petr ; Špiláček, Michal (referee) ; Pospíšil, Jiří (advisor)
This bachelor thesis deals with an economic and environmental contexts of biomass utilization. The first part focuses on the description of the nature and manner of use of biomass. Another part is focused on economic aspects related to biomass. A necessity in the processing a particular energy source is its ecological problems, that is the third chapter. The last part is devoted to the design condensing heat exchanger and its output relative to the fuel wetness content, and boiler output with a condensing exchanger depending on the combustion products cooling temperature.
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Environmental Friendly Accommodation in a Particular Area
KOROUSOVÁ, Marie
The aim of this work is to identify economical approaches in the accommodation offers in surveyed area and to consider the importance of friendly approaches in the accommodation offer in a strategy of companies offering accommodation, to emphasise the importance of enviromentally sustainable tourism, to analyse requirements of tourists on the eco-friendly accommodation, and on the basis of these analyses, to suggest possible improvements of this accommodation.
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