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Ukončeno v akademickém roce 2020/2021

Human Geography

Type of study Bachelor
Language of instruction Czech
Code 118-0401/02
Abbreviation SCEGEO
Course title Human Geography
Credits 4
Coordinating department Department of Regional and Environmental Economics
Course coordinator RNDr. Ivan Šotkovský, Ph.D.

Osnova předmětu

1. Development of science, basic theoretical knowledge. Object and subject of interest, contribution of Czech and foreign personalities to the development of geographical sciences. Basic directions and approaches of socio-economic geography.
2. Methodology of socio-economic geography. Socio-economic Geography Approaches to Data Acquisition and Processing. Methods of socio-economic cartographic analysis.
3. Introduction to the theory of spatial (geographic) systems. Spatial system and landscape. Spatial goals and value system. Spatial processes and agents of spatial systems development.
4. Development and present of the political map of the world. Spatial order. The importance of the state as a spatial and political-administrative unit. Historical development of state formation.
5. State as a political-economic system. Model of the state classification level. The issue of centralization and decentralization of the state in securing state administration.
6. State and possibilities of human resources. Basic approaches of population geography. Population size in spatio-temporal context. The dynamics of world population growth.
7. Distribution and selected features of the world population. Differences in spatial distribution of the world population. Selected structural features of the world population (age, nationality, religiosity).
8. General features of the world economy geography. Economic activity and primary activity. Structure of land resources. Development of employment in global and regional perspective.
9. Natural resources and industrial sector growth. Industry geography and evaluation of its development, structure and distribution. Development of industrial complexes. Processes of industrialization and deindustrialization in the world.
10. Development of tertiary society. Development of the service sector and its systemic breakdown.
11. Central-peripheral system of the world. Models of division of the world by development. The emergence and development of centers of the world economy. Basic characteristics of the core economies of the contemporary world.
12. Europe as an economically powerful complex interconnected space. Differences in economic levels of European states. Differences in social environment. Signs of economic cooperation in Europe.
13. Position of the Czech Republic in the World Economy. Natural, economic and social characteristics of the Czech Republic. International position of the Czech Republic and its integration tendencies.
14. World economy in geospatial context. The importance and role of the UN. Possibilities of economic cooperation in the world. The most important integration efforts in the world. Possibilities of measuring the level of development of the world states.

E-learning

Povinná literatura

ŠOTKOVSKÝ, I. (2012). Human Geography (Landscapes of Human Activites). Ostrava: VŠB – Technical University of Ostrava.

Doporučená literatura

AGNEW, J. A., DUNCAN, J. S., et al. (2011). The Wiley-Blackwell companion to human geo-graphy. Oxford: Blackwell Publishing.

FELLMANN, J. D., M. D. BJELLAND, A. GETIS a J. GETIS. (2010). Human Geography: Landscapes of Human Activities. 11th ed. New York: McGraw-Hill.

ŠOTKOVSKÝ, I. (2002). Hospodářská geografie. Ostrava: VŠB-Technická univerzita Ostrava.