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Lecturer(s)
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Rada Vladimír, Mgr.
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Tomášek Petr, Doc. PaedDr. Ph.D.
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Course content
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Geography of industry (industry performance, focus, approaches, the basic theory of localization industry classification of economic activities). Momentum in industrial production (industrial revolution, the industrial location factors, fordism, global production chains). Core areas of industrial production (origin, evolution, changes in the spatial arrangement, industrial units and regions). Innovation in industrial production (legislative framework and tools, industrial clusters, industrial zones, know-how and development centers). Industrial production and global problems (environmental aspects, environmental pollution, economic crisis and unemployment in the industry, the issue of working conditions in the industry in developing countries, brownfields, land appropriation). Sources of raw materials and industry (mining industry, focusing on strategic raw materials). The energy industry and its role in the contemporary world (electricity generation, energy mix, energy policy). Manufacturing industry and its role in the contemporary world (food, textile, chemical, electrical industry etc.). The automotive industry in the economy of selected countries (deployment production of passenger cars and coherence of global and regional production, dependence of selected countries in the prosperity of the field). Selected problems of industrial production in the EU (support industrial production in the EU, the backbone industry, export and import). Geography industrial plant (practical research methods geographic aspects of industrial production to a particular race).
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Learning activities and teaching methods
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Lecture, Seminar
- Contact hours
- 52 hours per semester
- Undergraduate study programme term essay (20-40)
- 15 hours per semester
- Presentation preparation (report) (1-10)
- 8 hours per semester
- Preparation for an examination (30-60)
- 30 hours per semester
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| prerequisite |
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| Knowledge |
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| Basic knowledge and general assumptions for the study of geography. |
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| Explain the context of the deployment of industrial activities with globalization processes is characteristic of the regional territory. |
| Understand and explain the deployment of industrial production in the world. |
| Identify problems associated with modern industrial production. |
| Recognizes the determinants of deployment of industrial production as well as their regional impacts. |
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| Analyze the determinants of deployment of industrial production as well as their regional impacts. |
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| Students' portfolio |
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| Combined exam |
| Individual presentation at a seminar |
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| Combined exam |
| Individual presentation at a seminar |
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| Skills demonstration during practicum |
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Recommended literature
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Dicken, P. Global Shift: Mapping the Changing Contours of the World Economy. 6. vydání. London: SAGE Publications, 2011.
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Dokoupil, J., Mirvald, S. Cvičení z geografie průmyslu. 1. vydání. Plzeň : Pedagogická fakulta, 1993. ISBN 80-7043-077-X.
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Knox, Paul L.; Agnew, John A.,; McCarthy, Linda. The geography of the world economy. 5th ed. London : Hodder Education, 2008. ISBN 978-0-340-94835-4.
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Petr Pavlínek. Global Production Networks, Foreign Direct Investment and Supplier Linkages in the Integrated Peripheries of the Automotive Industry. 2018.
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Toušek, Václav. Ekonomická a sociální geografie. Plzeň : Aleš Čeněk, 2008. ISBN 978-80-7380-114-4.
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