| Course Unit Code | 116-0563/01 |
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| Number of ECTS Credits Allocated | 4 ECTS credits |
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| Type of Course Unit * | Choice-compulsory |
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| Level of Course Unit * | First Cycle |
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| Semester when the Course Unit is delivered | Summer Semester |
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| Mode of Delivery | Face-to-face |
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| Language of Instruction | English |
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| Prerequisites and Co-Requisites | Course succeeds to compulsory courses of previous semester |
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| Name of Lecturer(s) | Personal ID | Name |
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| S1O70 | RNDr. Ivan Šotkovský, Ph.D. |
| Summary |
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The content of the subject of economic geography should help economists master the basics of geographical thinking, i.e. learn to work with economic phenomena in spatial (regional) contexts. They should gain the ability to:
• distinguish individual parts of the earth's surface (continents, integration groupings, regions, state departments, etc.) based on the assumptions of more effective development of social and economic ties,
• perceive and understand the laws of spatial organization,
• create at least a reasonable idea of the fact that different types of economic activity bring different economic effects to people in different regions,
• recognize and objectively classify the consequences of natural and unnatural imbalances on a spatial scale,
• to be more realistically aware of the long-term need for the unity of a real global system despite the often significantly different value of the level of maturity of the regions and
• to recognize the tolerable level of the economy's impact on the now global effort for the sustainable development of humanity. |
| Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit |
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| Learning outcomes of the course unit The aim of the course is to extend the knowledge of the economic weight of individual regions of the world. The World Economic Order is largely influenced by the economic development of individual countries of the world, or by the world. regional or international economic groupings. Economic, social and regional geography is a basic orientation for assessing the state of economic development from the perspective of creating new spatial links. |
| Course Contents |
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1. Development of science, basic theoretical knowledge. Object and subject of interest, contribution of Czech and foreign personalities to the development of geographical sciences. Their functions, approaches, directions.
2. General features of the world economy geography. Position of economic geography in the system of sciences, system approaches and economic landscape, spatial processes in the background of economic relations.
3. Economic relations and landscape sphere. Economy and environment, characteristics of contemporary economic development, economic process and spatial arrangement.
4. Spatial order and meaning of the state. The single world market and the effects of spatial organization, the state system and its economic context, the state as a political-economic system.
5. Regional level of spatial order. Conception of region and regional systems, regionalization and its influence on economic relations, evaluation of regions, their differentiation, regional development and regional policy. From localization theories to the principles of regionalism.
6. Analysis of human resources in geographical view. World population development. Population size issues, natural and migration currencies.
7. Distribution and selected features of the world population. Age distribution of population and differences in aging process. Other significant structural characteristics of the world population.
8. Models of division of the world according to development. Central-peripheral model of the world. The emergence and development of centers of the world economy. Basic characteristics of the core economies of the contemporary world.
9. Europe as an economically strong complex interconnected space. Differences in economic levels of European states. Differences in social environment. Signs of economic cooperation in Europe.
10. 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.
11. Geography of world agriculture. Basic functions, needs and characteristics of agricultural production, crop and livestock production.
12. Geography of industry, industrial structure and development of industrial complexes. Industrialization, the way of progress? Development of the second sector of national economy in the world and in our country.
13. World economic order and integration processes. The importance and role of the UN. Possibilities of economic cooperation in the world. The most important integration efforts in the world.
14. Geospatial view of world economy and possibilities of measuring level of maturity. |
| Recommended or Required Reading |
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| Required Reading: |
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1. COE, Neil, KELLY, Philip, YEUNG, Henry W. C. (2019) Economic Geography: A Contemporary Introduction. 3rd ed., New York, Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell Publishing.
2. MacKinnon, D., Cumbers, A. (2019). An Introduction to Economic Geography: Globalisation, Uneven Development and Place. 3rd ed. Abingdon, New York: Routledge
3. KNOX, P., J. AGNEW a L. McCARTHY. (2014). The Geography of the World Economy. 6th ed. London: Routledge. |
1. Šotkovský, Ivan. Socioekonomická geografie (prostředí lidské aktivity). Ostrava: VŠB - Technická univerzita Ostrava, 2012. ISBN 978-80-2č8-2624-0.
2. ŠOTKOVSKÝ, I. (2022). Energetická bilance světa, výroba elektřiny a udržitelný rozvoj. In: Fiedor, D. Minxová, P., Smolová I (ed.). Česká a slovenská geografie: mezi národní tradicí a mezinárodní relevancí (sborník abstraktů). Olomouc: Univerzita Palackého, 2022, str. xyz. ISBN 978-80-244-6178-6. DOI: 10.5507/prf.22.24461786
3. KUTSCHERAUER, A., ŠOTKOVSKÝ, I., ADAMOVSKÝ, J., IVAN, I. (2013). Socioekonomická geografie a regionální rozvoj. Regionální analýzy v přístupech socioekonomické geografie k re-gionálnímu rozvoji. SAEI, vol. 22, Ostrava: VŠB-TU Ostrava. (30 %) 146 s. |
| Recommended Reading: |
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1. CLARK, G. L, FELDMAN, M. P., GERTLER, M. S, WÓJCIK, D. (2018). The New Oxford Handbook of Economic Geography. 2nd ed. Oxford: Oxford University Press. (978-0-19-875560-9).
2. MALINOWSKI, J., KAPLAN, D. Human Geography. New York: McGraw-Hill Education, 2012. ISBN-13: 978-0073122946.
3. STUTZ, F. P., WARF B. (2012). The World Economy: Geography, Business, Development. 6th ed. New Jersey: Pearson Education. |
1. Dobrylovský, J. Ekonomická geografie pro ekonomy. Praha: Vysoká škola ekonomie a ma-nagementu. 2021.
2. HRALA, Václav a kol. Geografie světového hospodářství (Vybrané kapitoly). Praha: VŠE, 2005. ISBN 80-245-0857-5.
3. TOUŠEK, Václav a kol. Ekonomická a sociální geografie. Plzeň: Aleš Čeněk, 2008. |
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| Tasks are not Defined |