PdF:Ze2RC_NSK3 Geog. of the Non-prod. Sphere - Course Information

Ze2RC_NSK3 Gepgraphy of the Non-production Sphere

Extent and Intensity

0/0/0. 4 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).

Teacher(s)

RNDr. Daniel Borecký, CSc. (lecturer)

Guaranteed by

RNDr. Daniel Borecký, CSc.
Department of Geography – Faculty of Education
Contact Person: Kateřina Brabcová

Course Enrolment Limitations

The course is offered to students of any study field.

Course objectives

The aim of the subject - to acquaint with general methodological approaches of social geography (system and synergetic aproaches), to gain basical knowledge about the geographical problems of transportation, tourism and trade and services.

Syllabus

• 1. The general methods used in social geography
• The system approach in geography, the cohesion and comlexity of natural, economic and social components of geography
• Synergetics and the comprehension of the actual social and economic development of the Worl
• The theory of regionalization, types of socioeconomic regions
• 2. The geography of transportation and communications as an antonomous science branch
• The determination, evolution and actual signification of the branch; the factors of the localization of transportation
• The basical notions, characteristics and classifications of transporation
• The examples of the ivestigation in the geography of transporation and communication (the optimalůization of transport net, prognosis, traffic volume and transfer of persons, loads and informations)
• The geographical characterization of particular kinds of transporation, their compound, signification, main world traces and nodes
• The evolution of the systems of communication on the Earth, the signifiaction and perspectives of development of this branch of information revolution, the structural possibilities of spreading of knowledge, informations and inovations
• 3. The geography of recreation and travel movement as an antonomous science branch
• The determination of the branch, the priciples of uprising of recreation and travel movement, basical notions and characteristics
• The natural and social conditions for recreation and travel movement, main world regions of recreation and travel movement
• The geographical research of recreation and travel movement
• 4. The geography of trade and services as an antonomous science branch
• The theory of markit cenres
• The international target, main targit flows and regions of the World

Literature

• DEMEK, Jaromír. Teoretická geografie : principy a problémy. Brno: Geografický ústav ČSAV, 1974, 77 s. info
• CHALUPA, Petr and Koloman IVANIČKA. Geografie. V, Synergetický přístup k některým geografickým problémům České a Slovenské republiky (Variant.) : Synergetický přístup k některým geografickým problémům České a Slovenské republiky. info
• Základy teórie a metodologie socioekonomickej geografie. Edited by Koloman Ivanička. 2. vyd. Bratislava: Slovenské pedagogické nakladateľstvo, 1987, 432 s. info
• SKOKAN, Ladislav. Úvod do teorie geografie. Vyd. 1. Ústí nad Labem: Pedagogická fakulta UJEP, 1998, 147 s. ISBN 80-7044-174-7. info
• HRALA, Václav. Geografie světového hospodářství : vybrané kapitoly. 4. vyd. Praha: Oeconomica, 2005, 194 s. ISBN 8024508575. info
• SKOKAN, Ladislav. Geografie světového hospodářství :odvětvový přehled. Vyd. 1. Ústí nad Labem: Pedagogická fakulta UJEP, 1995, 117 s. ISBN 80-7044-113-5. info
• HRALA, Václav. Geografie cestovního ruchu. Vyd. 3. Praha: Vysoká škola ekonomická v Praze, 2005, 109 s. ISBN 8024508583. info

Teaching methods

lectures

Assessment methods

The course of lectures, culminating in a written examination (basic concepts and typology), together with an oral examination (interpretation of the issue)

Language of instruction

Czech

Further comments (probably available only in Czech)

The course can also be completed outside the examination period.
The course is taught annually.
The course is taught: in blocks.
Information on the extent and intensity of the course: 12 hodin konzultací.

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