BTR_EG Economic Geography

Faculty of Economics and Administration
Autumn 2008
Extent and Intensity
0/0. 5 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
Teacher(s)
doc. RNDr. Josef Kunc, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
prof. RNDr. Milan Viturka, CSc.
Department of Regional Economics – Faculty of Economics and Administration
Contact Person: Klára Viturková
Timetable
Sat 11. 10. 8:30–11:50 T1, Sun 2. 11. 8:30–11:50 T1
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is only offered to the students of the study fields the course is directly associated with.
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
Course objectives
Economic geography The knowledge gained in this course provides a thorough basis for spatial perception of socio-economic activities. Students will be gradually presented with: basic methods and techniques used in economic geography, classification of countries of the world according to their economic-geographic or political-geographic features, geography of population and settlement, geography of industry, agriculture, transport, communications, communications networks, services, trade and recreation. The aim of the course is to present and transfer the knowledge, which will enable students to understand the relationship between the geographic aspects of countries or regions and the condition and development of their economy. Credit requirements: seminar paper. Examination: written test, oral.
Syllabus
  • 1. Theory and methodology of the economic geography. Object, functions and development of the economic geography. History of geography. Recognition function of geography. Internal and specialization structuring of economic geography. Geographic informations, techniques and methods of their processing.
  • 2. - 4. Geography of population. Information base and methods of investigation. Development, distribution, dynamics a structure of population.
  • 5. Geography of settlements. Basic characteristics of settlement system. Rural settlements. Formation and development of towns. Function of towns. Urbanizations processes, settlement systems. Town and hinterland.
  • 6. Geography of trade and services. Significancy and role of the tertiary sphere. Localization a hierarchy of service and retail activities. Service regions. Territorial and commodity structure of the world trade.
  • 7. Regions, geographic regionalization. Regional geography. Regions, theory and structure of the region. Regionalization, methods of delimitating of regions.
  • 8. Geography of agriculture. Contribution of agriculture to world nutrition. World production, consumption and export of foodstuffs (vegetable and livestock production, fishery). Influence of natural and social economic factors to agriculture. Basic characteristics of recent world agriculture.
  • 9. Geography of industry. Significancy and role of the industry in world economy. Localization theory and localization factors in industry.
  • 10. - 11. Geographic methods of evaluation industry. Material base of industrial production. Sectoral structure of industry. Development and recent tendencies of world industrial production.
  • 12. Geography of transportation. Development of transportation. Impact of geographic factors on transportation. Classification and types of transportation. Recent trends in world transportation. Communications and telecommunications.
  • 13. Geography of tourism and recreation. Territorial organization of tourism. Economic role of tourism. International tourism. Recent problems and tendencies of tourism in the Czech Republic.
Literature
  • MARYÁŠ, Jaroslav, Jiří VYSTOUPIL and A KOL. Ekonomická geografie I. (Economic geography I). 2nd ed. Brno: Masarykova univerzita v Brně, 2001, 156 pp. ISBN 80-210-2595-6. info
Assessment methods
Written test.
Language of instruction
Czech
Further Comments
The course can also be completed outside the examination period.
The course is taught annually.
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