PREG Economic Geography

Faculty of Economics and Administration
Autumn 2008
Extent and Intensity
2/2/0. 5 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
Teacher(s)
RNDr. Jaroslav Maryáš, CSc. (lecturer)
prof. RNDr. Milan Viturka, CSc. (lecturer)
doc. RNDr. Jiří Vystoupil, CSc. (lecturer)
Ing. Bc. Andrea Holešinská, Ph.D. (seminar tutor)
doc. RNDr. Josef Kunc, Ph.D. (seminar tutor)
Mgr. Petr Tonev, Ph.D. (seminar tutor)
Guaranteed by
prof. RNDr. Milan Viturka, CSc.
Department of Regional Economics – Faculty of Economics and Administration
Contact Person: Klára Viturková
Timetable
Tue 16:20–17:55 P102, Tue 16:20–17:55 P101
  • Timetable of Seminar Groups:
PREG/1: Tue 18:00–19:30 P303, J. Vystoupil
PREG/10: Mon 18:00–19:30 P303, J. Vystoupil
PREG/2: Wed 12:50–14:30 P403, P. Tonev
PREG/3: Wed 12:50–14:30 P303, J. Kunc
PREG/4: Wed 14:35–16:15 P303, J. Kunc
PREG/5: Wed 16:20–17:55 P303, J. Vystoupil
PREG/6: Thu 13:45–15:20 P303, J. Kunc
PREG/7: Mon 16:20–17:55 P403, P. Tonev
PREG/8: Fri 12:50–14:30 P103
PREG/9: Mon 12:50–14:30 P403, P. Tonev
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.
The capacity limit for the course is 572 student(s).
Current registration and enrolment status: enrolled: 0/572, only registered: 0/572, only registered with preference (fields directly associated with the programme): 0/572
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
there are 13 fields of study the course is directly associated with, display
Course objectives
The knowledge gained in this course provides a thorough basis for spatial perception of socio-economic activities.
Students will be gradually presented with:
basic methods and techniques used in economic geography,
classification of countries of the world according to their economic-geographic or political-geographic features,
geography of population and settlement,
geography of industry, agriculture, transport, communications, communications networks, services, trade and recreation.
The aim of the course is to present and transfer the knowledge which will enable students to understand the relationship between the geographic aspects of countries or regions and the condition and development of their economy.
Syllabus
  • 1. Theory and methodology of economic geography. The object, functions and development of economic geography. History of geography. The cognitive role of geography. Internal and disciplinary classification of economic geography. Geographic data, techniques and their processing methods.
  • 2. - 4. Geography of population. Information base and methods of investigation. Population development, distribution, dynamics a structure.
  • 5. Geography of settlements. Basic characteristics of settlement system. Rural settlements. Formation and development of towns. Function of towns. Urbanizations processes, settlement systems. Town and hinterland.
  • 6. Geography of trade and services. The significance and role of the tertiary sector. Localization and hierarchy of service and retail activities. Service regions. Territorial and commodity structure of the international trade.
  • 7. Regions, geographic regionalization. Regional geography. Regions, theory and structure of the region. Regionalization, methods of delimitating regions.
  • 8. Geography of agriculture. Contribution of agriculture to world nutrition. World production, consumption and export of foodstuffs (vegetable, livestock and fish production). Influence of natural and social economic factors on agriculture. Basic characteristics of present world agriculture.
  • 9. Geography of industry. The significance and role of industry in world economy. Localization theory and localization factors in industry.
  • 10. - 11. Geographic methods of evaluating industry. Raw material base of industrial production. Sectoral structure of industry. Development and recent tendencies of world industrial production.
  • 12. Geography of transportation. Development of transportation. Impact of geographic factors on transportation. Classification and types of transportation. Recent trends in world transportation. Communications and telecommunications.
  • 13. Geography of tourism and recreation. Territorial organization of tourism. The economic role of tourism. International tourism. Recent problems and tendencies of tourism in the Czech Republic.
Literature
  • MARYÁŠ, Jaroslav, Jiří VYSTOUPIL and A KOL. Ekonomická geografie I. (Economic geography I). 2nd ed. Brno: Masarykova univerzita v Brně, 2001, 156 pp. ISBN 80-210-2595-6. info
Assessment methods
Written test, oral examination.
Language of instruction
Czech
Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
The course is taught annually.
Information on course enrolment limitations: max. 30 cizích studentů; studenti geografických oborů Přírodovědecké fakulty si mohou předmět zapsat pouze před absolvováním obdobných předmětů na mateřské fakultě, cvičení pouze pro studenty ESF
Teacher's information
http://www.econ.muni.cz/katedry/KRES/ekonomicka_geografie/eg.html
The course is also listed under the following terms Autumn 2001, Autumn 2002, Autumn 2003, Autumn 2004, Autumn 2005, Autumn 2006, Autumn 2007.
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