Skip to main content

Mgr. et Mgr. Tomáš DANĚK, Ph.D.

Contact

Email address: tomas.danek (at) upol.cz

Telephone: +420 585 634 987

Room: 2.008

Courses taught

  • Anthropocene

  • Environmental challenges

  • Social Science Aspects of Transition (with Ľuboš Slovák)

  • Current topics in environmental science

  • Environmentalism

  • Environmental ethics

  • Deep ecology: from thinking to corporality

  • Practicum on environmental challenges

  • Development anthropology and sociology

  • Development Theories and Anthropology

  • Man and Nature in the History of Western Thought

  • Film Seminar

  • Seminars for the Bachelor’s/Diploma Thesis

  • Block of Experts

Fields of Interests

  • Environmental Science

  • Environmental Philosophy and Ethics

  • Western Philosophy of Naturë
  • Anthropocene

  • Worldviews…

    • … connections between environmental problems and …

    • the transformations of Western thought about nature
      philosophy of natural science

  • Interdisciplinarity

  • Anthropology and Sociology in Relation to Development Issues

Qualifications

1994 – 1999  ::  Bachelor and Master degree in Department of Ecology, Faculty of Science, Palacky University in Olomouc

1998 – 2003  ::  Master degree in Department of Environmental Studies, Faculty of Social Studies, Masaryk University in Brno

2004 – 2011  ::  Ph.D. degree in Department of Environmental Studies, Faculty of Social Studies, Masaryk University in Brno in collaboration with Department of Philosophy and History of Science

Work experience

2006 – 2008  ::  Czech Environmental Information Agency (agency of the Ministry of Environment CR)

2006 – 2012   ::  Department of Interdisciplinary Activities, University of Western Bohemia
                         ::  seminar leading and lecturing
                         ::  organizer of interdisciplinary and epistemology oriented conferences and seminaries
                         ::  projects administrator

2006 – now   :: Department of Social and Cultural Ecology (Faculty of Humanities, Charles University in Prague) … external lecturer

2013 – now    :: Department of Development and Environmental studies

Selected Publications

  • MACHAR, I., DANĚK, T., DANĚK, J., KILIÁNOVÁ, H., STIBRAL, K. (2024) Urbánní zelená infrastruktura: Od kulturních ekosystémových služeb k biokulturní diverzitě. Vydavatelství Univerzity Palackého, Olomouc, DOI: 10.5507/prf.24.24464800

  • SLOVÁK, Ľ., DANĚK, J. & DANĚK, T. (2023) The use of focus groups in cultural ecosystem services research: a systematic review. Humanit Soc Sci Commun 10, 45. https://doi.org/10.1057/s41599-023-01530-3

  • DANĚK, T., SLOVÁK. L. Antropocén jako globální změna pohledu. In Michal V. Marek. Klimatická změna – příčiny, dopady a adaptace. Praha: Academia, 2022. s. 267-294. ISBN 978-80-200-3362-8.

  • STOJANOV, R., DUŽÍ, B., DANĚK, T., NĚMEC, D., PROCHÁZKA, D., 2015. Adaptation to Climate Extreme Impacts in Central Europe: Case Study of Rural Areas in the Czech Republic. Sustainability 7(9), 12758-12786; doi: 10.3390/su70912758.

  • DANĚK, T., 2015. Environmentalism in the age of Biologism. Development, Environment and Foresight. 1 (1), 24—43. ISSN 2336-6621.

  • MIKLÓS, L., DANĚK, T., VOLOŠČUK, I., DIVIAKOVÁ, A.,BELAŇOVÁ, E., ČERKALA, E., 2014: „State of the Art“ integrovaného manažmentu. – In Diviaková A. (ed.), Stav a trendy integrovaného manažmentu životného prostredia. Vydavateľstvo TU vo Zvoleni. pp 10-43; ISBN 978-80-228-2711-9.

  • DANĚK, T.  Pochybné filipiky proti pochybné přírodě [Dubitable philippics against the dubitable nature]. In Bartoš, M. (ed.) Krajinou pochybností. [Landscape of doubts] 1. vyd. Nymburk: O.P.S., 2007, s. ISBN: 978-80-903773-4-9
  • DANĚK T., Markoš, A.: Život čmelákův. Koláž o pobývání v různých světech. [The life of a bumblebee. A collage about inhabiting different worlds] Červený Kostelec, nakladatelství Pavel Mervart., 2005 ISBN 80-86818-11-X.