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Problematic Regions of Contemporary World - MZ340S263
Title: Problémové oblasti současného světa
Guaranteed by: Department of Social Geography and Regional Development (31-340)
Faculty: Faculty of Science
Actual: from 2010 to 2017
Semester: winter
E-Credits: 3
Examination process: winter s.:
Hours per week, examination: winter s.:1/2, 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: RNDr. Jiří Vágner, Ph.D.
Attributes: Geografie - volitelné
Interchangeability : MZ340P822
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Annotation
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Macroregional world differentiation and boundary perception - different meaning, different sharpness. Rich North - poor South, new bipolar dividing of the world or a consequence of globalizing processes. Case studies, their historical, political, social and economical consequences:
- fragmentation of the USSR. Problems of following states, Caucasus, Central Asia
- Islamic fundamentalism, case of Afghanistan, Iran, Saudi Arabia and international influence
- oil states of Persian Gulf, very fragile world equilibrium, oil and gas trade, OPEC organization
- breaking up of Yugoslavia and the role of communism and its elite for regional and international development
- European problematic regions (North Ireland, Bascs problems etc.)
- Subsaharian Africa, problems of surviving, education and modernisation
- ethnic problems of South Africa, Australia, Canada, the U.S.A.
Some actual topics in other different regions.

References
COLE, J. (1996): Geography of the World´s Major Regions. New York, Routledge, 474 p.
DEMKO, G., WOOD, W.B. (1994): Reordering the World. Eastview Press, Boulder, 350 p.
BLIJ de H., MULLER, P.O. (1994): Geography. Regions and Concept. Willey, N. York, 662 p.

Literature - Czech
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DEMKO, G., WOOD, W.B. (1994): Reordering the World. Westview Press, Boulder, 350 s.

BLIJ, H. de, MULLER, P.O. (1994): Geography. Regions and Concepts. Willey, N. York, 662 s.

COLE, J. (1996): Geography of the World´s Major Regions. Routledge, N. York, 474 s.

+ individuální literatura k jednotlivým problémům

Syllabus -
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Objectives:

1. Broader knowledge on regional geography.

2. Analysis of terms, consequences and possibilities of solution of global and regional problems

Contents:

1. Defining of global and regional problems. Basic features of problem regions, genesis of conflicts.

2. The North - The South. Partial macroregions (J. Cole, FAO etc.).

3. Selected problematic regions:

Izrael, Palestina and Near East

Indian Subkontinent vs. Pakistan

China - economic boom and politic totality, population issues

Írán and Irák - islam and moslims

Afghanistan conflict

Kaukazus Region - ethnicity, Russian influence

Central Asia

Subsaharian Afrika, Sahel and RSA

Latin America - economic and environmental issues.

Northern America - multicultural society, national and global economy.

European problematic region

  • Balkan and Yugoslavia, Basques, Northern Ireland

4. Environmental Issues

5. Migration and globalization effects

6. Some up-to-date topics

 
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