ČPŽP 45 3/2017

3/2017

STUDENTSKÉ VÝZKUMNÉ OKÉNKO

JOSEF VAVROUŠEK AWARD 2017 Every spring, the Scientific Council of the Faculty of Social Sciences of Charles University in Prague invites applicants for the public Josef VAVROUŠEK Award. Competition is open to Bachelor, Masters and Dissertation Theses defended in the current and past Academic Year, with reviews and results enclosed. Award categories: a) Student (nature and extent of Bachelor or Diploma Thesis); b) Scientific research (nature and extent of Doctoral Thesis). In the 2017 in the category of Diploma Thesis was awarded 4 Students from Department of Environmental Law, Faculty of Law, Charles University. The winner (1.class) was Mr. Richard Galis with his work on theme Regulation of international trade with endangered species of wild fauna and flora. Josef Vavroušek (1944–1995) was Czech environmentalist, scientist and politician, and founder of the Environment for Europe process. He obtained his PhD (equivalent) from the Czech Technical University in Prague in 1975 then worked for 15 years (1975–1990) as a scientist in the field of cybernetics, general systems theory, science of science, and human environment, specializing in macro-ecology of Man and environmental policy. During this period he was a member of the executive body of the Ecological Section of the Biological Society, Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences (1985–1991), one of the founding members of the first executive body of the Circle of Independent Intelligentsia (1988–1989) and a member of the Club of Rome. He was also one of the founders of the Civic Forum and later of the Civic Movement in Czechoslovakia and a member of their executive bodies. In 1989 Josef Vavroušek was one of the leaders of the Czechoslovakian Velvet Revolution. In April 1990 he became vice- chairman of the State Commission for Scientific and Technical Development (responsible for the environment), and then in June 1990 he became the first (and last) environment Minister of the Federal Government of Czechoslovakia. It was in this role that Josef Vavroušek proposed and organized the first pan- European conference of environment Ministers. ♠♠

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