Events

Workshop

Drought and soil degradation in the Czech republic

October 2014 

Organized by Mendel University in Brno, Czech Hydrometeorological Institute (CHMI), Research Institute of Plant Production v.v.i. (VÚRV), with the support of the Ministry of the Environment of the Czech Republic

• Vítězslav Vlček [MENDELU]: Short presentation of the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification in Countries Experiencing Extreme Drought and/or Desertification, especially in Africa (UNCCD) and the UNCCD Regional Reference Centre on the occasion of the 20th anniversary of the UNCCD [prezentace]
• Jaroslav Rožnovský [CHMI]: Climate of the Czech Republic and occurrences of drought [prezentace]
• Mojmír Kohút [CHMI]: Drought of 2013/2014 [prezentace]
• Vítězslav Vlček [MENDELU]: Climate as one of the soil forming factors, impacts of drought [prezentace][článek]
• Jana Klimešová [MENDELU]: Crop root system as an adaptation measure to drought [prezentace]
• Jan Haberle [VÚRV]:  Crop root system and utilization of available water supply in soil profile - relevance for agricultural practice [prezentace]
• Vítězslav Hybler [MENDELU]: Dry seasons as a potential threat to the floodplain ecosystem [prezentace][článek]

Proceedings

The Economic Dimension of Land Degradation, Desertification and Increasing the Resilience of Affected Areas in the Region of Central and Eastern Europe (EDLDIR-2013).

Mendel university in Brno press, Czech republic 2013, ISBN 978-80-7375-715-1.

• Ghazaryan Hunan Gh. Brief Outline Of Soils In Armenia (HERE)
• Korže Ana Vovk. Ecoremediation (ERM) as a Sustainable Approach to Environmental Protection (HERE)
• Torres Leslie Elizabeth, Candelori Massimo. Towards an environmentally-adjusted macroeconomic index for land degradation (HERE)

Workshop

The problem of drought and ways to remedy it.

21.6. 2010, Mendel university in Brno.

More information HERE.

• tiráž sborníku
• Jiří Hlaváček (Director of the Multilateral Relations Department of the Ministry of the Environment) Úvodní slovo
• Ing. Vítězslav Vlček, Ph.D. (MENDELU): Introduction of the UNCCD Regional Reference Centre - prezentace a článek; Expected pedoclimatic changes - článek
• RNDr. RNDr. Ing. Jaroslav Rožnovský, CSc. (ČHMÚ): Climate of the Czech Republic and occurrences of drought- prezentace
• RNDr. Mojmír Kohut (ČHMÚ): Methods for assessing the occurrence of drought in the Czech Republic - prezentace
• RNDr. Pavel Trnka, CSc. (MENDELU): Possible consequences of prolonged drought in our landscape and in the world - prezentace, článek
• Ing. Vítězslav Hybler (MENDELU): Water as a determinant of a healthy riparian forest - prezentace, článek

Workshop

focused on external financing for the implementation of the UN Convention to Combat Desertification in countries affected by severe drought and/or desertification, particularly in Africa, in the Eastern European region.

10 - 12.9. 2008 Mendel university in Brno.

More information HERE

• prezentation Impact of Climate Change on Soil Degradation, Design of Adaptation Measures" from the seminar Design and Analysis of Adaptation Measures to Climate Change in Agriculture in the Czech Republic
  
• Analysis of adaptation measures to climate change in the Czech Republic in the field of agriculture - Output of the VÚZE study for the Ministry of Agriculture, including appendices and images in full quality, 218 p.

COP 8 Madrid (Spain), September 2007

• Prezentace Regionálního referenčního Centra UNCCD