PREG_E Economic Geography-E

Faculty of Economics and Administration
Autumn 2008
Extent and Intensity
2/0/0. 3 credit(s). Type of Completion: z (credit).
Teacher(s)
RNDr. Jaroslav Maryáš, CSc. (lecturer)
doc. RNDr. Jiří Vystoupil, CSc. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
prof. RNDr. Milan Viturka, CSc.
Department of Regional Economics – Faculty of Economics and Administration
Contact Person: Klára Viturková
Timetable
Tue 16:20–17:55 P101
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is only offered to the students of the study fields the course is directly associated with.

The capacity limit for the course is 93 student(s).
Current registration and enrolment status: enrolled: 0/93, only registered: 0/93
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
Course objectives
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.
Syllabus
  • 1. Theory and methodology of economic geography. The object, functions and development of economic geography. History of geography. The cognitive role of geography. Internal and disciplinary classification of economic geography. Geographic data, techniques and their processing methods.
  • 2. - 4. Geography of population. Information base and methods of investigation. Population development, distribution, dynamics a structure.
  • 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. The significance and role of the tertiary sector. Localization and hierarchy of service and retail activities. Service regions. Territorial and commodity structure of the international trade.
  • 7. Regions, geographic regionalization. Regional geography. Regions, theory and structure of the region. Regionalization, methods of delimitating regions.
  • 8. Geography of agriculture. Contribution of agriculture to world nutrition. World production, consumption and export of foodstuffs (vegetable, livestock and fish production). Influence of natural and social economic factors on agriculture. Basic characteristics of present world agriculture.
  • 9. Geography of industry. The significance and role of industry in world economy. Localization theory and localization factors in industry.
  • 10. - 11. Geographic methods of evaluating industry. Raw 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. The economic role of tourism. International tourism. Recent problems and tendencies of tourism in the Czech Republic.
Literature
  • 2. Maryáš J., Vystoupil J.: Ekonomická geografie (elektronická verze). ESF MU, Brno 2006. DSO. 149 s.
  • 1. Maryáš J., Vystoupil J. a kol.: Ekonomická geografie I. (2. a rozšířené a doplněné vydání). ESF MU, Brno 1995 . 160 s.
  • 3. Clark G. L., Feldman M. P., Gertler M. S.: The Oxford Handbook of Economic Geography, Oford University Press, USA 2001, 776 s.
Assessment methods
Written credit test.
Language of instruction
Czech
Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
Study Materials
The course is taught annually.
General note: Tento předmět je určen pouze studentům oboru Evropská hospodářská,správní akulturní studia.
The course is also listed under the following terms Autumn 2004, Autumn 2005, Autumn 2006, Autumn 2007.
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