Course: Population and Vital Infrastructure Protection

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Course title Population and Vital Infrastructure Protection
Course code LUOO/L7SOO
Organizational form of instruction Lecture + Seminary
Level of course Master
Year of study not specified
Semester Winter
Number of ECTS credits 5
Language of instruction Czech
Status of course Compulsory
Form of instruction Face-to-face
Work placements This is not an internship
Recommended optional programme components None
Lecturer(s)
  • Vičar Dušan, prof. Ing. CSc.
  • Kotouč David, Ing. Ph.D.
  • Rak Jakub, Ing. Ph.D.
Course content
1. Characteristics of protection and civil protection, their importance, goals and place in national security. Basic terms and definitions. Characteristics of critical infrastructure and European critical infrastructure 2. Brief history of origin and contemporary civil protection. 3. National and international concepts of critical infrastructure. Critical Infrastructure Warning Information Network. European Critical Infrastructure Protection Program. 4. Assessment of the resilience of critical infrastructure elements. Principle and objectives A comprehensive strategy for the Czech Republic to address critical infrastructure issues. 7. Basic tasks and starting points for solving critical infrastructure issues. Key pages of the critical infrastructure process. Resilience of critical infrastructure. 9. The concept of population protection by 2020 with a view to 2030. 10. Analysis of natural events. 11. Analysis of extraordinary events of anthropogenic events and accidents. 12. Warning, notification and emergency information to the population. Population evacuation. Emergency survival of the population. 13. Protection of population against floods. 14. Protection of the population in the field of nuclear energy, protection against WMD and industrial pollutants.

Learning activities and teaching methods
Lecturing, Monologic (Exposition, lecture, briefing), Individual work of students
  • Participation in classes - 56 hours per semester
  • Home preparation for classes - 24 hours per semester
  • Preparation for examination - 25 hours per semester
  • Preparation for course credit - 20 hours per semester
prerequisite
Knowledge
Unspecified
Unspecified
learning outcomes
define the basics of flood protection
define the basics of flood protection
characteristics and types of MU
characteristics and types of MU
describe the historical development of civil protection
describe the historical development of civil protection
to characterize the legal area of the protection of critical infrastructure
to characterize the legal area of the protection of critical infrastructure
Skills
participate in the organization of flood protection
participate in the organization of flood protection
to present the consequences of the historical development of civil protection
to present the consequences of the historical development of civil protection
participate in the assessment of the resistance of critical infrastructure elements
participate in the assessment of the resistance of critical infrastructure elements
to present the basic outputs of the population protection concept
to present the basic outputs of the population protection concept
teaching methods
Knowledge
Individual work of students
Individual work of students
Lecturing
Lecturing
Monologic (Exposition, lecture, briefing)
Monologic (Exposition, lecture, briefing)
assessment methods
Composite examination (Written part + oral part)
Composite examination (Written part + oral part)
Recommended literature
  • HROMADA, Martin a kolektiv. Ochrana kritické infrastruktury ČR v odvětví energetiky. Zlín: UTB, 2014. ISBN 978-80-7385-144-6.
  • HROMADA, Martin a kolektiv. Systém a způsob hodnocení kritické infrastruktury. Zlín: UTB-FAI, 2013. ISBN 978-80-7385-14-8.
  • Ivan MAŠEK, ŠAFAŘÍK Zdeněk a Dušan VIČAR. Bezpečnost a ochrana společnosti. Ostrava, 2014.
  • Kratochvílová, Danuše. Ochrana obyvatelstva. Ostrava, 2013. ISBN 978-80-7385-134-7.
  • VIČAR, Dušan, Radim, VIČAR. Vybrané aspekty práva bezpečnosti a obrany České republiky. Zlín: UTB-FLKŘ, 2013. ISBN 978-80-7454-279-4.


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