The aim of this paper is to assess the development of business activities in the Czech countryside in the period from 2008 to the present and to show possible limitations and perspectives of this area. The research was conducted by analysing economic entities located in r...

Aim: MSM is one of the key groups to HIV. The COVID-19 pandemic and the restrictions implemented in connection with it have fundamentally changed social and sexual life. These effects may have been much more potent for minority groups, such as MSM, than for the majority&#...

This paper proposes categorising the tools public administrations can use to support and promote efficient rainfall (HDV) management on urban and municipal development sites. The overview of tools, their description and classification according to selected criteria was developed as part of a...

The aim of this article is to specify five basic types of urban development sites in terms of rainwater management and conditions for projects for rainwater management systems. In part, preconditions for an ideal rainwater management system have been taken from a statistical analys...

This paper proposes categorising the tools public administrations can use to support and promote efficient rainwater management on urban and municipal development sites. The overview of tools, their description and classification according to selected criteria was developed as part of ...

The article follows up a contemporary discussion of the form of regional geography teaching, whose older concept leads to the reduction of problem-oriented topics typical of political geography, too. The aim of the article was to find out by the content analysis what political ...

The U.S.-Mexico border, the busiest border line in the world, is also a politically explosive topic attracting media attention. The public often associates it with the construction of a wall to stop international migration. However, the origins of migrants and their motivation to m...

The article outlines possible measures for efficient management of rainwater in larger functional areas of development areas, i.e. areas of individual housing; mass housing; production and storage; civic amenities or recreation and sports facilities. The text comments on possible tools for p...

Most studies addressing heat in urban environments focus on thermal conditions and neglect the mental component of thermal comfort. This study employs mental maps to analyse thermal (dis)comfort in the medium-sized Czech cities of Olomouc and Plzeň in summer. Locations of “mental hotspo...

The rapid expansion of urban areas has been a feature of the industrial age. Landscape features have been replaced or transformed to accommodate the needs of an increasingly urban society. Our study focuses on the disappearance or transformation of man-made ponds in the historic&#x...

Peripheries may be delimited by various methodological approaches. The aim of this article is to identify and spatially determine inner and outer peripheries at the municipal level in Czechia. With the help of 15 indicators (reflecting the demographic development, economic activity, and ...

This article focuses on provincial gentrification on a case of Pilsen. The main goal is to assess whether the process of gentrification is taking place in the territory of the five inner-city neighbourhoods. The inner cities in Central and Eastern Europe were significantly neglecte...

The study deals with the analysis of economic activities of the population in rural areas in the 1920s. For the research was chosen a rural area on the periphery of the current Plzeň and South Bohemian regions, specifically the territory of 74 municipalities in the judici...

Standardized delimiting of local climate zones (LCZ) will be better applicable to the urban adaptation to climate change when the ecohydrological properties of LCZ units are known. Therefore, the properties of LCZ units based on the methodology of ecohydrological zoning of the urban...

Public spaces of cities have the potential of a shared space that fulfils both natural and social functions at the same time. The text presents possibilities to integrate public spaces in the rainwater management while supporting their aesthetic, social and environmental functions. The&...

Despite health literacy being an important assumption for maintaining a healthy population, there are not many studies focusing on health literacy concerning HIV infection among adolescents in the Czech Republic and among Czech authors. In contrast, there are plenty of scientific papers ...

Although the blue-green infrastructure is a matter widely discussed in several disciplines such as urban planning, landscape architecture, water management, climatology and nature conservation, use of the term itself remains infrequent in Czech contexts and has no unanimous definition. As the...

In this article, we study regional development trends in the Czech region of West Bohemia through the application of the core-periphery concept. In particular, we focus on the peripheral areas of West Bohemia, the development and differences between its core and periphery, and on&#...

For almost two centuries, green spaces in European cities have been rethought and built based on the shifting ideas and practices about the role of nature in cities. Although there is a great diversity in the quantity and quality of green spaces in European cities today,&...

This paper aims to map the use of two social networks (Facebook, Instagram) within the municipalities of the Pilsen and Karlovy Vary regions. On the example of 635 municipalities we verify whether Facebook is the dominantly used social network, how the activity on these media&...