The paper discusses the history of contact systems and then turns to presentation of the results of recent contact systems survey conducted among the foreign investors in the Czech Republic. The mentioned pilot study of contact systems is based
Research into peripheral areas in the Czech Republic - changes in the landscape and land use in the model regions
Czech Republic ; European integration ; Land use ; Local development ; Peripheral region ; Region ; Regional development
In research activities in the Czech Republic, the centre of attention has been shifting towards peripheral territories. As a result, there is a project shared by several academic institutions that is focused on the position of the periphery within
The paper examines FDI regional distribution and challenges rather uncritical views on this phenomen. There are distributed geographically very unevenly as almost three fifths of total FDI inflows into the Czech republic have been located in Prague
Accessibility ; Car ; Czech Republic ; Microregion ; Peripheral region ; Public transport ; Transport
This paper presents the accessibility of peripheral regions in the Czech Republic after the period of transformation, which caused the differences between the core and the peripheral regions even on the micro-regional level. The tendency
The article presents transformations in Poland's settlement network with the aid of centrographic measures in relation to the three historical periods of the Second Republic, the People's Republic of Poland and the Third Republic, whose varying
Czech Republic ; Digital elevation model ; Geographical information system ; Landscape dynamics ; Remote sensing
Methodically the historical landscape studies are supported with territorial databases of maps and satellite imagery. Examples presented typical ways of GIS and RS applications in Czech Republic. - (EN)
Catastrophe ; Czech Republic ; Damage ; Sixteenth Century ; Spatial analysis ; Storm ; Twentieth Century ; Wind
An analysis of spatial distribution of places with damage done by gales and windstorms in Czech Republic in the course of the last 500 years. The characterisation of the most affected localities and most significant cases the windstorms
Bulgaria ; Central-East Europe ; Czech Republic ; Europe ; European integration ; Hungary ; Poland ; Romania ; Service ; Slovak Republic ; Socio-economic system
Czech Republic ; Region ; Territorial identity ; Territorial strategy ; Territory ; Tourism ; Town
, and in the Czech Republic in particular. A project concerning the fictional Kingdom of Wallachia situated in the folk region of eastern Moravia (close to the Czech-slovak border) is presented as a case study. Territorial marketing has strengthened regional identity
Depressed region ; National park ; Region ; Slovak Republic ; Tourism ; Water retention
Northeastern Slovakia belongs to the least developed backcountries within the republic. Poor technical infrastructure, marginal location and the deficit of employment opportunities lead to the land abandonment and emigration. Several factors have
The Czech Republic consists of three historical provinces : Bohemia, Moravia and Silesia. While the first and second of these are well known, to the point where their existences in the minds of their inhabitants are not under discussion