An aesthetician and historian of natural sciences by training, he is interested in the interrelationship of culture and nature, especially the history of aesthetic and artistic attitudes towards landscape in the modern period, the relationship between visual arts and natural sciences, and the history of nature conservation and environmental thinking. He is the author of Darwin and Aesthetics (2006), On the Picturesque. The Aesthetics of Nature between Garden and Wilderness (2011), The Aesthetics of Nature. Towards a History of the Aesthetic Appreciation of Nature (2019), among others. Chair of the discipline's board of directors.

Consultations: Tuesday 14:45-15:45

Environmental ethicist, philosopher and gestalt therapist with a focus on environmental grief, winner of the Josef Vavroušek Prize in the category of scientific research (dissertation). He has been working at our department since 2004, from 2012 to 2019 he was the head of the department. From 2019 to 2021 he served as Vice Dean for Internal and External Communication at the Faculty of Social Studies of Masaryk University. He is an expert guarantor of the Symbios project of shared housing for young adults from children's homes and students of Brno universities. He is the author of the book monographs Environmental Ethics, Analysis of Deep Ecology, Green Extremism and Ciencias sagradas.

Consultations: Monday 12:00 - 13:15 

It deals with the theory, methodology and evaluation of environmental education, education and awareness programs. He is the author of several monographs and a number of partial research studies. He has collaborated in defining the objectives and outcomes of environmental education and the action plan of education for sustainable development. In cooperation with environmental education centres he researches educational programmes and verifies the effectiveness of new methodological approaches. In March 2022, he collaborated in the organization of the World Congress of Environmental Education in Prague.

Consultations: Wednesday 14:00 - 15:00 (ask via email before)

A sociologist and biologist, she is interested in the connections between lifestyle and environmental problems; her research focuses on environmentally friendly lifestyles.
Besides publishing in Czech and international academic journals, she has also published several book-length monographs: Sociální potřeba a hodnota krajiny [The Social Need And Value Of The Landscape] (1987), Láska ke krajině?
[Love For The Landscape?] (1988), Pestří a zelení: Kapitoly o dobrovolné skromnosti [The Colourful and the Greens: chapters on voluntary modesty.] (1994), Vlažní a Váhaví: Kapitoly o ekologickém luxusu [The Half-hearted and the Hesitant: Chapters on Ecological Luxury] (2003).

He is mainly interested in the history of environmentally friendly trends in urban planning and spatial planning. His teaching focuses on the following topics: architecture - city - landscape. He tries to combine his work experience from a private company, where he worked for several years on development studies and master plans, with a historical and environmental perspective. His professional interests also include 20th and 21st century architectural history and theory and environmental history. He is the author of Organic Modernity. Environmentally Friendly Tendencies in Czechoslovak Urbanism and Spatial Planning (1918-1968) (2015).

Consultations: Wednesday 15:30 - 17:00 

Assistant professor, graduated in biology in České Budějovice (B.Sc.) and in environmental humanities (M.Sc. and PhD.) in Brno. During her studies she gained experience in the functioning of community-based ethical financial institutions in the UK and in the concept of ecological economics, political ecology and the work of the Research and Degrowth group in Barcelona. She has a long-standing interest in alternative economic practices, the topic of local production and consumption and the concept of sustainable non-growth. She has recently completed research on the functioning of social enterprises in the Czech Republic and is currently working on bringing the topic of degrowth into the Czech mainstream. She also works with the organisations Trast pro ekonomiku a společnost, NaZemi a Re:set - Platforma pro sociálně-ekologickou transformaci.

Consultations: Thursday 10:00-11:00 

She is interested in environmental sociology and gerontology, and also teaches courses on social science methodology at the department. She is interested in the sociology of space, housing and home (e.g. the topic of suburbanization or single-person households), environmental gerontology (the relationship between aging and the environment, the effects of climate change on older people), or lifestyle changes in an intergenerational perspective - she has collaborated with Prof. Hana Librova on research on "the diverse" and their children. Currently, within the framework of the GAČR project, she focuses on how older people interpret the impacts of climate change and environmental crisis. She is (co-)author of a number of publications and member of professional societies (CSU, ESA, CSO).

Consultations: by appointment only by email: galcanov@fss.muni.cz

She graduated in biology at Charles University, her PhD thesis at the FSS at MU focused on (eco) social entrepreneurship. Her research focuses on the economic roots of the ecological crisis, a critique of hidden economic assumptions and alternatives to the economic mainstream. Her main interests include the so-called economic alternatives or eco-social entrepreneurship, and in 2014-2016 she led a research project on this topic at GAČR (http://alternativniekonomiky.fss.muni.cz). She is the author of Living in the Cracks (2005), Where Money is Servant, Not Master (2008), Economic Dissenters (2014) and Ecological Economics: Selected Chapters (2015). She is a co-founder of the Trust for Economics and Society, a member of the Community Economies Institute and the editorial board of the journal Seventh Generation.

Consultations: Thursday 15:30-17:00 (except 15.9.)

Researcher and teacher. His research focuses on the use of nature for economic purposes; issues of management and common ownership of natural resources, especially cooperative ownership. In addition, he is interested in the sustainability of natural resource infrastructure and the topic of technological innovation and its role in the use of nature. Christian Kimmich holds a PhD from Humboldt University in Berlin, where he previously studied agricultural sciences and economics. Previously, he was, among others, a visiting scholar at Indiana University (Ostrom Workshop in Political Theory and Analysis) and at the Leibniz Institute for Agricultural Engineering and Bioeconomy in Potsdam. He was a research fellow at the Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research. He is now also based in Vienna at the Institut für Höhere Studien. He is known for his publications on situation-relational networks.

Assistant professor, social and environmental psychologist. He deals with what helps and hinders people to protect the environment, why contact with nature is important from the psychological point of view, what is characteristic for the Czech public opinion in the environmental field and how to communicate with different target groups about "green" topics. He is the author of Psychology of Relationship with Nature and Environment (2014) and co-author of Relationship of Czech Public to Nature and Environment (2018). He cooperates with non-profit organizations and public institutions. Together with his team, he founded the Institute 2050, which is dedicated to empirical research of public opinion and preparation of communication activities to reach different segments of the Czech public.

Consultations: ask via email before

Environmental anthropologist working on environmentally friendly lifestyles, perceptions of environmental issues or media. Graduate of Environmental Studies at the Faculty of Social Sciences of the Masaryk University; his dissertation examined the links between Roma and nature. Recently, he has been involved in longitudinal research on the ecologically friendly lifestyle of the so-called "diverse" and in research on the environmental context of the restitution process or the perception of drought and climate change. He spices up his academic work by popularizing in the social-ecological journal The Seventh Generation.

Consultations: Thursday 14:00-15:00

Assistant professor of environmental history and historical ecology. A historian by training, he also works at the Botanical Institute of the CAS. From 2012-2016 he led the European Research Council (ERC)-funded interdisciplinary grant LONGWOOD, which investigated the history of Moravian forests over the last 8,000 years. He is the author of numerous scientific publications and serves on the editorial board of the journals Environment and History and Global Environment.

Consultation hours: by appointment by e-mail

Landscape ecologist, agricultural engineer, and occasional insite poet; focuses on sustainable landscape management and the social aspects of organic farming and food production. He has also published on these topics in the national and international professional press, and collaborates with the Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Lisbon. Study advisor and field coordinator for Erasmus+ study and work placements.

Consultations: Tuesday 14:30- 16:00