GeoScapePub Date : 2017-06-01DOI: 10.1515/geosc-2017-0004
D. Strahl, Roman Sobczak
{"title":"Conceptual roots for innovation and innovativeness of the economy in Poland","authors":"D. Strahl, Roman Sobczak","doi":"10.1515/geosc-2017-0004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/geosc-2017-0004","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract The purpose of the article is to provide the evolutionary review and systemization of the basic concepts related to innovation and innovativeness in Polish research on regional economics and development. The emphasis is placed on the types of innovation and innovativeness of the economy and the main conceptual and practical sources for the innovation and innovativeness concept are being discussed within the framework of European regional policy.","PeriodicalId":42291,"journal":{"name":"GeoScape","volume":"11 1","pages":"41 - 51"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2017-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1515/geosc-2017-0004","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48332199","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
GeoScapePub Date : 2017-06-01DOI: 10.1515/geosc-2017-0003
J. Ženka, A. Pavlik, Ondřej Slach
{"title":"Resilience of metropolitan, urban and rural regions: a Central European perspective","authors":"J. Ženka, A. Pavlik, Ondřej Slach","doi":"10.1515/geosc-2017-0003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/geosc-2017-0003","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract In this article, we examine a relationship between population/economic size and resilience of Czech regions. More specifically, we ask if there are any significant differences among metropolitan cores and hinterlands, urban regions and rural regions in (post)crisis economic development in the period 2009–2013. Three aspects of resilience were considered: volatility of unemployment, renewal (increase in economic performance compared to other regions) and reorientation (measured by the intensity of structural changes in total employment). We found relatively small differences among particular types of regions and high intra-group heterogeneity. Specialized industrial urban regions exhibited the fastest economic growth in the (post)crisis period. Metropolitan cores lagged slightly behind, but experienced relatively stable economic development. Although rural regions exhibited the highest unemployment volatility, they did not lag behind in terms of value added growth. Regional resilience in a small open economy like Czechia seems to be predominantly driven by extraregional factors such as the position in global production networks and economic performance in particular industries or large transnational corporations.","PeriodicalId":42291,"journal":{"name":"GeoScape","volume":"11 1","pages":"25 - 40"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2017-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1515/geosc-2017-0003","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47142230","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
GeoScapePub Date : 2017-06-01DOI: 10.1515/geosc-2017-0001
L. Slavíková, R. Syrbe, J. Slavík, Astrid Berens
{"title":"Local environmental NGO roles in biodiversity governance: a Czech-German comparison","authors":"L. Slavíková, R. Syrbe, J. Slavík, Astrid Berens","doi":"10.1515/geosc-2017-0001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/geosc-2017-0001","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Recently, the role of nongovernmental organizations (NGOs)s in environmental governance has been widely investigated, especially regarding the issue of mandatory public participation in policy-making within a European context. This paper aims to redirect scientific attention from their pure participation to their field actions, i.e., to the role they play in actual natural resource management, especially at the local level, and reframe local environmental NGO roles and positions based on the criteria for scale and influence. More specifically, this paper seeks to identify factors that promote NGOs as effective complements in the protection of state biodiversity and stresses local impacts of different governance schemes. Determining factors were investigated through a series of in-depth case studies undertaken in the Czech-German border region of the eastern Krušné hory Mts. (Erzgebirge, Ore Mts.). Rather than a quantitatively oriented survey among NGOs, this study focused primarily on a specific territory and, subsequently, on the identification of relevant actor performance (including NGO representatives) within this territory. The method applied for comparison was the Institutional Analysis and Development Framework (IAD Framework). This design enabled a comparison of different social practices in the homogeneous ecosystem present on both sides of the border and captured the influence of specific social and historical cross-border features on environmental NGO performance.","PeriodicalId":42291,"journal":{"name":"GeoScape","volume":"11 1","pages":"1 - 15"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2017-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1515/geosc-2017-0001","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41965676","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
GeoScapePub Date : 2017-01-01DOI: 10.1515/geosc-2017-0002
Marek Obrębalski
{"title":"Demographic potential in functional areas of the selected medium-sized cities in Poland and the Czech Republic","authors":"Marek Obrębalski","doi":"10.1515/geosc-2017-0002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/geosc-2017-0002","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract The article presents the population problem of urban functional area around selected medium-sized cities in Poland and the Czech Republic. Research work refers to six cities (on the Polish side - Jelenia Góra, Legnica and Wałbrzych – located in Lower Silesia region; on the Czech side - Hradec Králové, Liberec and Ústí nad Labem). These core cities with suburban areas co-create the functional urban areas with varied demographic structure and development dynamics. In the analysed period, the population growth was observed only in Liberec. The largest total population among studied areas refers also to Liberec functional urban area. The population in suburban areas of the examined Polish and Czech cities is relatively younger than in the core cities. Functional approach for development of urban areas founding depart from perception of demographic problem and challenges only by prism of administrative borders becomes more important.","PeriodicalId":42291,"journal":{"name":"GeoScape","volume":"11 1","pages":"16 - 24"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2017-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1515/geosc-2017-0002","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"66791864","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
GeoScapePub Date : 2016-12-01DOI: 10.1515/geosc-2016-0003
Oliver Rafaj, Š. Rehák
{"title":"Spatial Aspects of University Graduates in Slovakia","authors":"Oliver Rafaj, Š. Rehák","doi":"10.1515/geosc-2016-0003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/geosc-2016-0003","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract University and college graduates do not represent just a highly skilled workforce. They are holders of a high level of education and they serve also as a component of human capital that have a high potential for increase productivity, create new jobs and discover new innovative production processes. This contribution deals with the concentration and dispersion of the production of university and college graduates of master level studies in Slovak cities, as holders of a high level of human capital. Examined were 41 of 46 fields of master level studies, which were assigned to 6 groups of studies. Within the overall production of graduates, there was observed a dispersion of production, because during the observed time period, between 1997 and 2015, the competition between cities in generating graduates of master level studies has increased. Within the production of individual groups of studies, the evolution was not so clear. In some groups of studies, the production of master level graduates has concentrated over the observed period time, in other groups the production has dispersed and in one group of studies the situation has not changed.","PeriodicalId":42291,"journal":{"name":"GeoScape","volume":"10 1","pages":"26 - 34"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2016-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"66791706","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
GeoScapePub Date : 2016-12-01DOI: 10.1515/geosc-2016-0006
M. Dolejš, Birgit Glorius, V. Hruška
{"title":"Motives and barriers of migration to Saxony: the case of migrating health professionals from Czechia","authors":"M. Dolejš, Birgit Glorius, V. Hruška","doi":"10.1515/geosc-2016-0006","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/geosc-2016-0006","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract The regime change in the former German Democratic Republic and its reunification with the Federal Republic of Germany at the beginning of 1990s launched significant social and economic changes which resulted i.a. in high out-migration rate and secondary also rapid demographic ageing of the populations of the states of former Eastern Germany including Saxony. As a consequence, there is a lack of health professionals in Saxon hospitals which is going to be solved by the in-migration of medical staff from abroad. The geographical location of the Federal state of Saxony predetermines representatives of Saxon hospitals to look for missing health care labour in Czechia and latest statistics demonstrate that this could be a successful way to stabilize or even increase the personnel numbers of Saxon health care providers. The aim of this article is not only to bring some basic data about the migration of Czech health professionals to Germany, but especially to focus on processes which facilitate or hinder such kind of mobility, influence the rate of success of their integration both into the work team and German society and form the prospects of their permanent stay in Germany. Ten interviews with Czech health professionals were conducted in order to fulfill these ambitions. As a result, crucial barriers and recommendations for improvements concerning the migration decision making, their integration and sustaining in the migratory destination are presented.","PeriodicalId":42291,"journal":{"name":"GeoScape","volume":"10 1","pages":"62 - 77"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2016-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"66791854","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
GeoScapePub Date : 2016-12-01DOI: 10.1515/geosc-2016-0004
M. Ibrahim, H. Masoumi
{"title":"Will Distance to the Capital City Matter When Supplying New Cities in Egypt?","authors":"M. Ibrahim, H. Masoumi","doi":"10.1515/geosc-2016-0004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/geosc-2016-0004","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Unlike other developing countries, the housing market in Egypt is characterized by densely populated urban areas in old cities and the peripheral urban agglomeration. In contrast, a high rate of vacancy along most of the new cities that have been established since the 1980s is seen. Regardless of such high rate of vacancies, still the variation in occupancy rates among those new cities is notable. Questions arising include: Does proximity to old cities or Greater Cairo affect the size of the population of the new cities? Is the size of the city or the year of establishment plays roles in attracting more inhabitants? The factors of spatial characteristics of new cities in Egypt remain questionable. This research aims to reveal the association between occupancy rate and six factors related to the spatial characteristics of new cities and their geographical locations, such as; current inhabitants, the estimated size of the target group, the size of new cities, total number of housing units, distance to nearby old city, and distance to Greater Cairo.","PeriodicalId":42291,"journal":{"name":"GeoScape","volume":"10 1","pages":"35 - 52"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2016-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"66791717","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
GeoScapePub Date : 2016-06-01DOI: 10.1515/geosc-2016-0001
A. Gouda, M. Hosseini, H. Masoumi
{"title":"The Status of Urban and Suburban Sprawl in Egypt and Iran","authors":"A. Gouda, M. Hosseini, H. Masoumi","doi":"10.1515/geosc-2016-0001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/geosc-2016-0001","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract The circumstances of urban sprawl in the Middle Eastern cities have been basically examined; now we are aware of the existence of a crawling sprawl in the growth pattern of the region’s cities. Nevertheless, the extent and the causes of this phenomenon have not yet been clearly explained. Thus, two questions are still unanswered: (1) to what extent are the Middle Eastern cities sprawled?, (2) what are the main drivers of sprawl in the Middle East? This paper brings together several evidences from international and the national languages to provide explanation to the above. The findings show that urban and suburban sprawl is an inclusive pattern seen in a wide variety of city sizes, planning concepts, times, etc. Sprawl is not limited to large metropolitan areas; mid-sized and small cities of the region are also sprawling. Furthermore, administrative and planning reasons are the strongest causes of urban sprawl in the region.","PeriodicalId":42291,"journal":{"name":"GeoScape","volume":"10 1","pages":"1 - 15"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2016-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1515/geosc-2016-0001","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"66791654","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
GeoScapePub Date : 2016-01-01DOI: 10.1515/geosc-2016-0005
Miloslav Šašek
{"title":"Population Development and its Typology in the Czech Republic at the Level of Micro-regions","authors":"Miloslav Šašek","doi":"10.1515/geosc-2016-0005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/geosc-2016-0005","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract The contribution mainly focuses on monitoring of the population development in the Czech Republic, particularly at the micro-regional level. It monitors development of the natural population change, migration, and overall population development in two monitored periods, and conducts SO ORP typology based on this development with respect to the natural population change, migration, and overall increase. Today, the migration in the developed regions is the determinative element of the population development. To put it simply, the determinative division of the migration population development is into two units (east and west zone, Moravia and Bohemia), where Moravia has negative migration and Bohemia sees positive migration; however, there are significant differences in the middle of the units where Brno metropolitan area has highly positive migration, especially from the rest of Moravia and Silesia, and on the contrary, Karlovy Vary region sees significantly negative migration; over the last years, the negative migration has been relatively higher compared to Moravia-Silesia Region. The micro-regions at SO ORP level assist us in distinguishing of continuous territories with either positive or negative population development.","PeriodicalId":42291,"journal":{"name":"GeoScape","volume":"10 1","pages":"53 - 61"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2016-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"66791764","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
GeoScapePub Date : 2016-01-01DOI: 10.1515/geosc-2016-0002
Petra Olšová, Michaela Jánská
{"title":"Location of super and hypermarkets in the city of Ústí nad Labem","authors":"Petra Olšová, Michaela Jánská","doi":"10.1515/geosc-2016-0002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/geosc-2016-0002","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Retail stores are a common part of our everyday life. We focus on the site selection of supermarkets and hypermarkets in Ústí nad Labem and analyze the role of selected factors that drive the site selection of these super/hypermarkets. The role of the factors is verified by a correlation analysis. In the city of Ústí nad Labem, retail units of the supermarket or hypermarket type are unevenly distributed and are concentrated in the more central areas of the city. The location of stores has no power association with monitored factors. The result is certainly strongly influenced by the lack in availability of relevant data.","PeriodicalId":42291,"journal":{"name":"GeoScape","volume":"10 1","pages":"16 - 24"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2016-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1515/geosc-2016-0002","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"66791665","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}