118-0438/01 – Economic geography (HOSGEO)

Gurantor departmentDepartment of Regional and Environmental EconomicsCredits4
Subject guarantorRNDr. Ivan Šotkovský, Ph.D.Subject version guarantorRNDr. Ivan Šotkovský, Ph.D.
Study levelundergraduate or graduateRequirementCompulsory
Year2Semestersummer
Study languageCzech
Year of introduction2019/2020Year of cancellation2020/2021
Intended for the facultiesEKFIntended for study typesBachelor
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S1O70 RNDr. Ivan Šotkovský, Ph.D.
Extent of instruction for forms of study
Form of studyWay of compl.Extent
Part-time Credit 12+0

Subject aims expressed by acquired skills and competences

Learning outcomes of the course unit The aim of the course is to extend the knowledge of the economic weight of individual regions of the world. The World Economic Order is largely influenced by the economic development of individual countries of the world, or by the world. regional or international economic groupings. Economic, social and regional geography is a basic orientation for assessing the state of economic development from the perspective of creating new spatial links.

Teaching methods

Lectures

Summary

1. Development of science, basic theoretical knowledge. Object and subject of interest, contribution of Czech and foreign personalities to the development of geographical sciences. Their functions, approaches, directions. 2. General features of the world economy geography. Position of economic geography in the system of science, systemic approaches and economic landscape, spatial processes in the background of economic relations. 3. Economic relations and landscape sphere. Economy and environment, characteristics of contemporary economic development, economic process and spatial arrangement. 4. Spatial order and meaning of the state. The single world market and the effects of spatial organization, the state system and its economic context, the state as a political-economic system. 5. Regional level of spatial order. Conception of region and regional systems, regionalization and its influence on economic relations, evaluation of regions, their differentiation, regional development and regional policy. From localization theories to the principles of regionalism. 6. Analysis of human resources in geographical view. World population development. Population size issues, natural and migratory currency. 7. Distribution and selected features of the world population. Age distribution of population and differences in aging process. Other significant structural characteristics of the world population. 8. Models of division of the world according to development. Central-peripheral model of the world. The emergence and development of centers of the world economy. Basic characteristics of the core economies of the contemporary world. 9. Europe as an economically strong complex interconnected space. Differences in economic levels of European states. Differences in social environment. Signs of economic cooperation in Europe. 10. Position of the Czech Republic in the World Economy. Natural, economic and social characteristics of the Czech Republic. International position of the Czech Republic and its integration tendencies. 11. Geography of world agriculture. Basic functions, needs and characteristics of agricultural production, crop and livestock production. 12. Geography of industry, industrial structure and development of industrial complexes. Industrialization, the Way of Progress? Development of the second sector of national economy in the world and in our country. 13. World economic order and integration processes. The importance and role of the UN. Possibilities of economic cooperation in the world. The most important integration efforts in the world. 14. Geospatial view of the world economy and possibilities of measuring the level of maturity.

Compulsory literature:

ŠOTKOVSKÝ, Ivan. Socioekonomická geografie: prostředí lidské činnosti. Ostrava: VŠB – Technická univerzita Ostrava, 2012. 206 s. ISBN 978-80-248-2624-0. ŠOTKOVSKÝ, Ivan. Hospodářská geografie. Ostrava, VŠB - Technická univerzita Ostrava, 2002. 248 s. ISBN 80-248-0066-7. KNOX, P. L., AGNEW, J., MCCARTHY, L. (2014). The Geography of the World Economy. 6th ed. London: Routledge. ISBN-13: 978-1444184709.

Recommended literature:

KUTSCHERAUER, A., ŠOTKOVSKÝ, I., ADAMOVSKÝ, J., IVAN, I. (2013). Socioekonomická geografie a regionální rozvoj. Regionální analýzy v přístupech socioekonomické geografie k regionálnímu rozvoji. SAEI, vol. 22, Ostrava: VŠB-TU Ostrava. COE, Neil, KELLY, Philip, YEUNG, Henry W. C. Economic Geography: A Contemporary Introduction. 2nd ed., New York, Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell Publishing, 2013. 576 s. ISBN 978-0-4709-4338-0. FELLMANN, J. D., M. D. BJELLAND, A. GETIS AND J. GETIS. (2013). Human Geography: Landscapes of Human Activities. 12th ed. New York: McGraw-Hill, ISBN-13: 978-0078021466

Way of continuous check of knowledge in the course of semester

E-learning

Other requirements

Active participation in lectures, verification of total knowledge by credit test.

Prerequisities

Subject has no prerequisities.

Co-requisities

Subject has no co-requisities.

Subject syllabus:

1. Development of science, basic theoretical knowledge. Object and subject of interest, contribution of Czech and foreign personalities to the development of geographical sciences. Their functions, approaches, directions. 2. General features of the world economy geography. Position of economic geography in the system of sciences, system approaches and economic landscape, spatial processes in the background of economic relations. 3. Economic relations and landscape sphere. Economy and environment, characteristics of contemporary economic development, economic process and spatial arrangement. 4. Spatial order and meaning of the state. The single world market and the effects of spatial organization, the state system and its economic context, the state as a political-economic system. 5. Regional level of spatial order. Conception of region and regional systems, regionalization and its influence on economic relations, evaluation of regions, their differentiation, regional development and regional policy. From localization theories to the principles of regionalism. 6. Analysis of human resources in geographical view. World population development. Population size issues, natural and migration currencies. 7. Distribution and selected features of the world population. Age distribution of population and differences in aging process. Other significant structural characteristics of the world population. 8. Models of division of the world according to development. Central-peripheral model of the world. The emergence and development of centers of the world economy. Basic characteristics of the core economies of the contemporary world. 9. Europe as an economically strong complex interconnected space. Differences in economic levels of European states. Differences in social environment. Signs of economic cooperation in Europe. 10. Position of the Czech Republic in the World Economy. Natural, economic and social characteristics of the Czech Republic. International position of the Czech Republic and its integration tendencies. 11. Geography of world agriculture. Basic functions, needs and characteristics of agricultural production, crop and livestock production. 12. Geography of industry, industrial structure and development of industrial complexes. Industrialization, the way of progress? Development of the second sector of national economy in the world and in our country. 13. World economic order and integration processes. The importance and role of the UN. Possibilities of economic cooperation in the world. The most important integration efforts in the world. 14. Geospatial view of world economy and possibilities of measuring level of maturity.

Conditions for subject completion

Part-time form (validity from: 2019/2020 Winter semester, validity until: 2020/2021 Summer semester)
Task nameType of taskMax. number of points
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Min. number of pointsMax. počet pokusů
Credit Credit 85 (85) 85 3
        Zápočtový test Other task type 85  85
Mandatory attendence participation: Lectures recommended.

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Academic yearProgrammeBranch/spec.Spec.ZaměřeníFormStudy language Tut. centreYearWSType of duty
2020/2021 (B0311A050004) Applied Economics (S01) International Economic Relations K Czech Ostrava 2 Compulsory study plan
2019/2020 (B0311A050004) Applied Economics (S01) International Economic Relations K Czech Ostrava 2 Compulsory study plan

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