PřF:Z0138 Industrial geography - Course Information
Z0138 Selected chapters of industrial geography
Faculty of ScienceAutumn 2008
- Extent and Intensity
- 1/2/0. 3 credit(s) (plus extra credits for completion). Type of Completion: k (colloquium).
- Teacher(s)
- doc. RNDr. Václav Toušek, CSc. (lecturer)
Mgr. Jan Holeček (seminar tutor) - Guaranteed by
- prof. RNDr. Rudolf Brázdil, DrSc.
Department of Geography – Earth Sciences Section – Faculty of Science
Contact Person: doc. RNDr. Václav Toušek, CSc. - Timetable
- Tue 17:00–17:50 Z3,02045
- Timetable of Seminar Groups:
- Prerequisites (in Czech)
- PROGRAM(N-GK)
- Course Enrolment Limitations
- The course is only offered to the students of the study fields the course is directly associated with.
The capacity limit for the course is 32 student(s).
Current registration and enrolment status: enrolled: 0/32, only registered: 0/32 - fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
- Regional Geography and Regional Planning (programme PřF, N-GK)
- Social Geography (programme PřF, N-GK)
- Course objectives
- Situation and changes on the world market of raw material. Economical recession in developed countries and its influence on industrial production. The restructuralisation of industrial production in countries of Eastern Europe. The privatisation of industry in the Czech Republic with emphasis on companies privatised by voucher privatisation. The dynamic development of industry in countries of South-Eastern Asia. Industry and ist role in the developing countries of Africa, Asia and Latin America. Expected trends in the development of industry until the year 2000.
- Syllabus
- 1. Changes in the world market with natural resources in the 1990s and contemporary situation. 2. Natural resources in the Czech Republic, mining corporations. 3. Energetics in the world and the Czech Republic, contemporary situation and perspectives. 4. Development of manufacturing industry in the world and the Czech Republic with emphasis on the period after 1989. 5. Food industry in the Czech Republic – development, present situation, expected trends. 6. Textile, cloth and leather making industry in the Czech Republic. 7. Electrotechnic industry in the Czech Republic. 8. Metallurgy, metal working industry, machinery in the Czech Republic. 9. Other branches of manufacturing industry. 10. Comparative analysis of transformation of manufacturing industry in transitive economics of central and eastern Europe. 11. Contemporary tendencies in development of industrial production in developed market economies, restructuring and globalization. 12. Contemporary tendencies in development of industrial production in other world countries. 13. Industrial regions in the Czech Republic and world.
- Literature
- Brada, J., C., Clavel, J., D., Wienert, H.: Průmysl v České republice a Slovenské republice. OECD, Paris, 1994.
- TOUŠEK, Václav and Michal VANČURA. Aktuální problémy ČR. Díl 1, Průmysl. Část 3 : zeměpis. Ostrava: Scholaforum, 1997, 39 s. ISBN 80-86058-45-X. info
- CIHELKOVÁ, Eva. Světová ekonomika :základní nárys a nový vývoj. Vyd. 1. Praha: ETC Publishing, 1997, 257 s. ISBN 80-86006-48-4. info
- TOUŠEK, Václav and Michal VANČURA. Aktuální problémy ČR. Díl 1, Průmysl. Část 2 : zeměpis. Ostrava: Scholaforum, 1996, 25 s. ISBN 80-86058-31-X. info
- TOUŠEK, Václav and Michal VANČURA. Aktuální problémy ČR.zeměpis. Ostrava: Scholaforum, 1996, 27 s. ISBN 80-86058-30-1. info
- SKOKAN, Ladislav. Geografie světového hospodářství :odvětvový přehled. Vyd. 1. Ústí nad Labem: Pedagogická fakulta UJEP, 1995, 117 s. ISBN 80-7044-113-5. info
- HRALA, Václav, Václav KAŠPAR and Irina VITVAROVÁ. Geografie světového hospodářství : vybrané kapitoly. 1. vyd. Praha: Vysoká škola ekonomická v Praze, 1994, 131 s. ISBN 8070792329. info
- Assessment methods
- lecture, seminary, seminary project, colloquium
- Language of instruction
- Czech
- Further Comments
- Study Materials
The course can also be completed outside the examination period.
The course is taught once in two years.
- Enrolment Statistics (Autumn 2008, recent)
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