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Economic Geography for PhD students - MPGS0091
Title: Ekonomická geografie pro PGS
Czech title: Ekonomická geografie pro PGS
Guaranteed by: Department of Social Geography and Regional Development (31-340)
Faculty: Faculty of Science
Actual: from 2014
Semester: both
E-Credits: 0
Hours per week, examination: 0/0, Ex [HS]
Capacity: unlimited
Min. number of students: unlimited
4EU+: no
Virtual mobility / capacity: no
State of the course: taught
Language: Czech, English
Note: course is intended for doctoral students only
enabled for web enrollment
you can enroll for the course in winter and in summer semester
Guarantor: prof. RNDr. Petr Pavlínek, Ph.D.
Annotation -
Last update: RNDr. Jana Jíchová, Ph.D. (29.10.2019)
• Geographical approach to economic studies, history of thinking in economic geography, uneven development, commodity chains and production networks, technological development, agglomeration tendencies, relationship between economy and nature, the role of the state in economics, finance geography, workforce geography, consumption geography, economic geography and men / women.
• Historical development of the world economy and economic globalization from a geographical point of view; basic trends in global production, trade and investment; the most important factors and actors of globalization processes and their geographical impacts: technological change, multinationals, the state; geography of multinational companies; case studies of selected industries and services, the impact of economic globalization on developed and developing countries.
• Economics complex, structure. Long-term tendencies of development of the national economy complex. The role of individual sectors and sectors in the development of society. Theory of localization of agriculture, industry, production, firm. Economic-geographical regions.
• Natural resources. Valuation and classification methods. Valuation of natural resources. Drawing natural resources. Limits of growth. Sustainable development / life.
• World agricultural complex, its state, development of macroregional differentiation of production volume structure, intensity, productivity. Micro-regional analysis of agriculture. Transformation of agriculture and rural landscape in the Czech Republic.
• Basic trends of development, structural changes and deployment of industry in the world. Industrialization and deindustrialization. Mining, manufacturing, energy - basic features of industrial, technological and regional changes. Transformation of industry in the Czech Republic and its international context.
• Methods of study and evaluation of traffic phenomena in geography. Trends in transport development in various macro-regions of the world. Development of transport and its environmental consequences in developed countries. The role of transport in the process of globalization, economic integration and regional development.
Literature -
Last update: RNDr. Jana Jíchová, Ph.D. (29.10.2019)

CLARK, G.L., FELDMAN, M.P. (eds.) (2000): The Oxford Handbook of Economic Geography. Oxford University Press, Oxford.

NEIL. M COE, PHILIP F KELLY and HENRY W. C. YEUNG (2013) Economic Geography: A Contemporary Introduction, 2. vydání, Wiley.

COE, N. M., M. HESS, H. W. C. YEUNG, P. DICKEN AND J. HENDERSON (2004): Globalizing' regional development: a global production networks perspective. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers 29(4): 468-484.

DICKEN, P. (2011): Global Shift: Mapping the Changing Contours of the World Economy. Šesté vydání. London: Sage.

CHAPMAN, K., WALKER, D.F. (1992): Industrial Location. Principles and Policies. Second edition. Blackwell, Oxford.

HENDERSON, J., P. DICKEN, M. HESS, N. COE AND H. W. C. YEUNG (2002) Global production networks and the analysis of economic development. Review of International Political Economy 9(3): 436-464.

JOHNSTON, R.J., GREGORY, D., SMITH, D.M. (2004): The Dictionary of Human Geography. Blackwell, Oxford.

KNOX, P., AGNEW, J., McCARTHY, L. (2014): The Geography of the World Economy. 6. vydání. Routledge, London.

LEYSHON, ANDREW, ROGER LEE, LINDA MCDOWELL, PETER SUNLEY (2011) The Sage Handbook of Economic Geography. Sage.

MACKINNON, D. and CUMBERS, A. (2011): An Introduction to Economic Geography: Globalization, Uneven Development and Place, 2. vydání.

SHEPPARD, E., BARNES, T.J. (eds.) (2000): A Companion to Economic Geography. Blackwell, Oxford.

TOUŠEK, V., KUNC, J., VYSTOUPIL, J. (2008): Ekonomická a sociální geografie, Aleš Čeněk, Plzeň.

 
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