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Lecturer(s)
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Tomášek Petr, Doc. PaedDr. Ph.D.
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Rada Vladimír, Mgr.
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Římanová Ilona, doc. RNDr. CSc.
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Course content
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Economic geography (key concepts, history of the discipline) Key factors of the economic geography (state, firm, labor force, financial flows and environmental economy) World Economy and models of economic development (dynamics, uneven development, core vs. periphery, economic indicators) Globalization and economic development (international division of labor, new technologies and innovations, global market, production chains) Agriculture in the contemporary world (geography of agriculture, development of agriculture production) Natural and social factors in agriculture (patterns of the world agriculture production, Von Thunen model) Innovations in agriculture (agricultural revolutions, industrialization, Green revolution, biotechnology, genetically modified organisms) Suistainable agriculture (food supply, famines, environmental aspects) Agriculture policy of the EU and the Czech rep. (European funds and state subsidiaries) Selected databases and datasets for geography of agriculture (FAO, LPIS, eAGRI) Forestry, fishery and water management (forest and ocean exploitation, sustainable development)
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Learning activities and teaching methods
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Interactive lecture, Discussion, Students' portfolio, Self-study of literature, Practicum
- Contact hours
- 52 hours per semester
- Preparation for an examination (30-60)
- 60 hours per semester
- Preparation for formative assessments (2-20)
- 20 hours per semester
- Presentation preparation (report) (1-10)
- 10 hours per semester
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| prerequisite |
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| Knowledge |
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| get a basic overview of the world's socio-economic activities (in the scope of secondary education). |
| Know climatic differentiation on Earth. |
| Know the basic agricultural crops and animals. |
| Skills |
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| Know how to work with atlases and thematic maps. |
| Search in databases. |
| Process charts in Excel. |
| Competences |
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| Be interested in current events in the world economy. |
| learning outcomes |
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| Knowledge |
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| Explain the distribution of economic activities in the world |
| Identify the determinants of this distribution as well as its regional consequences. |
| Explain the relations between these activities with the globalization processes and the regional characteristics of the territory. |
| Understand the rules of the spatial distribution of agriculture in the world. |
| Identify problems associated with modern agricultural production. |
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| Analyze data from world databases with economic themes. |
| To process a presentation on the differentiation of economic activities on Earth. |
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| teaching methods |
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| Knowledge |
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| Interactive lecture |
| Practicum |
| Self-study of literature |
| Students' portfolio |
| Discussion |
| Task-based study method |
| Skills |
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| Lecture with visual aids |
| Seminar |
| Task-based study method |
| Competences |
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| Lecture |
| Task-based study method |
| Textual studies |
| assessment methods |
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| Knowledge |
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| Combined exam |
| Test |
| Individual presentation at a seminar |
| Continuous assessment |
| Skills |
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| Written exam |
| Skills demonstration during practicum |
| Competences |
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| Skills demonstration during practicum |
| Oral exam |
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Recommended literature
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Aoyama, Yuko; Murphy, James T.; Hanson, Susan. Key concepts in economic geography. Los Angeles : SAGE Publications, 2011. ISBN 978-1-84787-895-3.
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BIČÍK, Ivan, JANČÁK, Vít. Transformační procesy v Českém zemědělství po roce 1990. Praha, 2005. ISBN 8086561194.
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Coe, Neil M.; Kelly, Philip F.,; Yeung, Henry Wai-Chung. Economic geography : a contemporary introduction. 1st pub. Malden : Blackwell Publishing, 2007. ISBN 978-1-4051-3219-0.
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DICKEN, Peter. Global Shift: Mapping the Changing Contours of the World Economy. SAGE Publications, 2010. ISBN 0857023438.
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GRIGG, David. An Introduction to Agricultural Geography. Routledge, 2003. ISBN 1134887647.
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KNOX, Paul L., AGNEW, John, McCARTHY, Linda. The Geography of the World Economy. Routledge, 2014. ISBN 0415831288.
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Toušek, Václav. Ekonomická a sociální geografie. Plzeň : Aleš Čeněk, 2008. ISBN 978-80-7380-114-4.
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