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The image of environmental thinking in the life of the parish and the stimuli for its development
CHMARSKÁ, Zuzana
The bachelor thesis deals with the environmental thinking in the life of parish and the stimuli for its development. The theoretic part defines basic concepts related to the issue of environmental thinking and the parish and defines their mutual relationship. It briefly describes the ecological crisis and the call for ecological conversion from public, political and church initiatives. The practical part presents the quantitative research using the method of questionnaire survey. The aim of this research was to elucidate the practical reflections of environmental thinking in the parish's lives. The main focus of the bachelor thesis was to find how much environmental thinking appears in the life of the parish and describe in which areas it appears most often and which negative factors have the greatest impact on it.
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Economistic Paradigm and Its Impacts on the Environment
Svoboda, Zdeněk ; Kocian, Matúš (advisor) ; Štica, Petr (referee)
The diploma thesis in the field of environmental ethics "The Economistic Paradigm and Its Impact on the Environment" wants to introduce the pitfalls of economically oriented behaviour of contemporary society and the effects of such behaviour on the environment. In this generally accepted model of the functioning of the world, nature plays the role of an unlimited supply of raw materials and food, and man is motivated and externally stimulated by a desire for wealth and prosperity in his actions. Boundless confidence in scientific and technological progress dominates the development of spirituality and the relationship to the environment. All this often at the expense of the poorest, who are the least involved in pollution and climate change. The work acquaints the reader with selected aspects of the ecological crisis and their impact on man and nature. It will present an interpretation of biblical anthropocentrism and other concepts of the approach to the environment, which puts different subjects at the forefront of their interest. The aim of the work is to evaluate the sustainability of the currently set functioning of the world in relation to the environment and to offer alternatives fair to future generations and leading to a harmonious relationship between man and nature.
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Ecological ethics
Valentová, Kristýna ; Hogenová, Anna (advisor) ; Rybák, David (referee)
The issue of ecological ethics has often been discussed because it is important for the development of further generations. Nature and culture are not at the same level, yet culture is subordinate to nature. Because of human influence, the harmony of nature is endangered and we live in an ecological crisis. This master's thesis compares the opinions of experts in Czech environment who perceive the ecological ethics, collisions of nature and culture and environmental sphere from the point of philosophy. In the first part, there is a theoretical basis of ecological ethics and the elementary classification. Further, the development of ecological ethics in the Czech phylosophical thinking is presented. In the main part, the author always explores two selected ideas of Czech professionals - Erazim Kohák, Josef Šmajs, Hana Librová, Petr Jemelka and Jan Patočka. The conclusion of the thesis is that although all the authors come from various conceptions, their results are more or less corresponding. It is fundamental to accept a personal responsibility and not to long for power and profit. It is imporant to indicate and become aware of ecological crisis and start to solve it on our own at first (e. g. by voluntary modesty and awareness that we leave a legacy for further generations). We do not need to live...
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Responsible individual consumption as the first step out of the environmental crisis
Hosnedlová, Alena ; Novák, Arnošt (advisor) ; Kala, Lukáš (referee)
The thesis deals with the problem of global ecological crisis caused by excessive consumption of material goods, particularly in countries of "The Rich North" (western countries). In the theoretical part I set up individualized man as a consumer in the system of modern society, which indicates the conditions of its existence mainly through the market. I discuss the possible way out of the ecological crisis through ideological changes in the company initiated from the "bottom", based on the internalization of values leading to responsible and moderate consumption. I demonstrate alternative ways of life, environmentally friendly in terms of consumption, and discuss the obstacles and ways of its spread. The research was conducted through interviews with eco-advisers who are dealing with consumption, as potential "opinion leaders" in this case. I tried to look their conception of responsible consumption and their potential impact on society in favor of spreading the idea of an environmentally responsible way of life Key words Ecological crisis, consumption, consumerism, modernity, individualization, values, responsible consumption, modesty, environmentally friendly way of life
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The synthesis of ecology and economics as a possible solution to ecological crisis
Školová, Alena ; Suša, Oleg (advisor) ; Loužek, Marek (referee)
The presented thesis is focused on a ecological crisis. It is considered as a global probleme, which is connected with a world economy. The first part reflects manifestations of the ecological crisis such as for example a pollution of water and air, a climate changing and problems of waste etc. Than the thesis deals with social-economic problems of poverty, deficit of food and water, which are related to the physical manifestations. The followig part defines the neoclassical conventional economics and how does it bound up with the ecological crisis and how does it contribute to gettig worse the conterporary state of environment. After that is presented the ecological economics as the cognitive tool, which would be helpful in the elimination of the ecological crisis and probably in the prevention a far worse situation. The text showes, that only the conventional look at natural sources is not possible today.
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Education for Citizenship and Environmental Education in the Secondary and High School
Toužimská, Zuzana ; Havlínová, Ivana (advisor) ; Jirásková, Věra (referee)
This diploma thesis deals with the environmental education of young people and it highlights its importance for the transfer towards the sustainable society. It emphasizes the need to get into the core of the problem, which is the emotional alienation of present-day people from the nature and environment. In the theoretical part it proves the existence of many various attitudes towards the world and the possibility of environmental education to bring students to those less self-centred and more considerate. It then presents the basis of environmental education, its development and mainly its trends reflecting today's need to focus on environmental sensitivity and personal responsibility of each individual. It shows that both areas are possible to cultivate in lessons of civics and social sciences, which provide significant space for the integration of environmental education. These subjects stress the need to educate students in the way which would help them to acquire skills of both responsible citizens of the society and considerate inhabitants of this beautiful planet. The practical part therefore suggests concrete ways for integration of environmental education into the subjects of civics and social sciences which would lead students towards sustainable living in the society and in the whole of...
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Struggle between civilization (culture) and nature (attempts forming a cultural maturity strategy)
VAVROUŠKOVÁ, Edita
People are not aware of the fact that we are living on the edge of a serious ecological disaster. One fifth of the population could afford to pollute our planet while these people are enjoying prosperity before the ecological problems begin directly to affect them, as the main culprits. The thesis is divided into seven parts. In the first part I analyze the roots of a conflict between culture and nature, the development of a relationship between humans and nature from the beginning of their existence and two evolutionary lines, cultural and natural. Further I explain the heart of the ecological disaster as well as an anti-natural characteristic of technology. In the second part I deal with the turning points in the evolution of technology. In the third part, I analyze the impact of technology and information on the time and the human labour. The fourth part is devoted to the analysis of the development of economy from the original gatherer-hunting economy to the today's modern economy. In the parts, five to seven, I analyze who is responsible for the depleted and devastated nature. Is it market economy, party politics or consumer society? The seventh part is engaged in the history of consumer society. The eighth part is focused on possible solutions to the conflict and on the ways how people could find way back and behave the way that they would not devastate natural systems from now. In the research part I am engaged in a question if we realize that our consumption of any various goods would have to be adequate and if we as humankind are willing lower our sights or if we are not interested in our future. I choose a qualitative research method for collecting data. A questionnaire is created for the purposes of my research. The questionnaire is divided into five parts focusing on social structure, transportation, consumption of energy, water and food. The research question is not answered clearly, the results differ in particular areas of consumption. In the area of transport 68 % of respondents use their own vehicle for the transportation to their work and they are not willing to change it. In the area of energy 69 % of respondents are not willing to lower the temperature while heating the rooms they live in. However, another result is more propitious. Only 26 % respondents of the quantity are not willing to invest into thermal insulation. 21 percent of respondents are not willing to refuse usage of domestic appliance or lower consumption of energy. Although the global scarcity of water is perceived as a serious or rather serious problem by 95 % of respondents only 56 % of them do not save water or they do not have any general knowledge about their own water consumption. Appliances saving water are not used and also would not be used in the future by 30 % of questioned people. 36 % of respondents throw away food into the waste but 80 per cent of them are willing to think more about what they buy and how they could use their unconsumed food. The thesis could be used by interested people (sociologists, teachers of ethics, etc.) as a research of thinking of common population and also as a foundation for thinking about nowadays values orientation of the society. Furthermore, it could be used as a study material for further consideration related to the willingness of people to re-evaluate their requirements in connection with our future generations. Keywords
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