Social Geography of the EU - MZ340P87

• Title: Sociální geografie EU
• Czech title: Sociální geografie EU
• Guaranteed by: Department of Social Geography and Regional Development (31-340)
• Faculty: Faculty of Science
• Actual: from 2006 to 2019
• Semester: winter
• E-Credits: 5
• Examination process: winter s.:
• Hours per week, examination: winter s.:2/1, C+Ex [HT]
• Capacity: unlimited
• Min. number of students: unlimited
• 4EU+: no
• Virtual mobility / capacity: no
• State of the course: not taught
• Language: Czech
• Note: enabled for web enrollment
• Guarantor: prof. Petr Dostál, M.A., Ph.D.

Annotation

Last update: JANU (05.04.2002)

Short Contents:
1. Stages of development of the EU and major dimensions of its geographical
differentiation.
2. Institutional structure and mechanisms of the EU: developing economic
integration and lagging political cooperation.
3. From custom union to an integrated market.
4. Issues of cohesion of the EU.
5. European efforts at supra-national spatial development: ESDP
and supra-national cooperation in physical planning.
6. Association agreements and their possible impacts on sectors and regions.
7. Issues of global competitiveness of the EU.

References
DOSTÁL, P., HAMPL, M. (1996) Transformation in East-Central Europe: general principles under differentiating conditions. In: F.W. Carter et al. (eds) Central Europe after the Fall of the Iron Curtain. Geopolitical Perspectives, Spatial Patterns Trends. Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang Verlag, pp. 133-128.
GRANT, R. (1998) The political geography of European integration. In: B. Graham (ed.) Modern Europe. Place, Culture and Identity. London: Arnold, pp. 145-163.
Eurostat Yearbook 97. A Statistical Eye on Europe 1986-1996. Luxembourg: Eurostat. 512 p.
Regions. Statistical Yearbook 1997. Luxembourg: Eurostat. 262 p.