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Europe's strategy for Tech Security in the Era of Raw Critical Materials
Štěpánek, Vojtěch ; Karásek, Tomáš (advisor) ; Bureš, Oldřich (referee)
This diploma thesis is a single case study focusing on the European Union's approach to the issue of critical materials as a security concern. Critical raw materials will play an increasingly important role in Europe due to the ambitious Green Deal policy. The technologies necessary to address environmental challenges require a significant share of materials identified as critical in Europe. However, the problem is that most of these materials are concentrated in unstable and undemocratic regimes, which may pose strategic rivals. This creates a threat that supplier states may use critical materials as a tool of power and thus jeopardize the economic security of European Union countries. This thesis examines critical materials as a phenomenon, analyzes their criticality and relationship to technologies. It further conducts an analysis of selected critical materials and their risks, particularly about the nature of supplier states. The final chapter addresses the European strategy in this area and describes how critical materials affect strategic technologies.
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Enviro-sociální dopady elektronického průmyslu v Číně
Pirkovský, Rudolf
This Bachelor thesis is discussing issues of how electronic devices production, its input and output production processes and subsequent recycling of those devices have impact on individual components of the environment: air, soil and water systems. The thesis describes workers conditions as well as state of child labour in the context of the electronics industry in China. Regarding other social aspects, the work is concerned about impact on health condition of two groups: workers in production and recycling and residents in areas impacted with the electronics industry. This text is based on literary research. Scientific papers in database journals, statistical data, annuals and expert publications were used as sources for this work. Based on research data of individual authors, the work discusses the current situation in China with respect to excessive pollution and human rights violations due to the Chinese electronics industry.
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Green technologies and their use in the Czech Republic
MRKVIČKOVÁ, Markéta
This Bachelor thesis on the topic of Green technologies and their use in the Czech Republic is focused on the area of renewable energy sources. Overall, it clarifies the issue of waste, to use them, and assesses the technologies implemented in the South Bohemia region, that ensure they are processed from ekononomical and ekological point of view. Processing of this Bachelor thesis is focused not only on mapping out of the current state but even on prediction of potential future development in the closing chapters of the text.
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