scholarly journals Factors Affecting Development of Rural Areas in the Czech Republic: a Literature Review

2016 ◽  
Vol 64 (6) ◽  
pp. 2141-2150 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jakub Straka ◽  
Marcela Tuzová
Keyword(s):  
Czech Republic ◽  
Literature Review ◽  
Rural Development ◽  
Rural Areas ◽  
Comprehensive Analysis ◽  
Main Question ◽  
Rural Regions ◽  
The Czech Republic ◽  
Factors Affecting

Rural development is a topic that is frequently discussed, but there is no consensus on how to measure it. Various criteria exist such as economic, social, cultural or environmental, which can be used to assess rural development. Therefore the main question addressed in this paper is to identify what factors and indicators are suitable for scrutinizing development of rural areas under the conditions of the Czech Republic. For this purpose, articles focused on Czech rural regions were analysed. Fourteen most frequently used indicators were identified based on the comprehensive analysis of the selected Czech studies.

scholarly journals Changes in Migration to Rural Regions in The Czech Republic: Position and Perspectives

2013 ◽  
Vol 21 (3) ◽  
pp. 37-54 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marie Novotná ◽  
Jiří Preis ◽  
Jan Kopp ◽  
Michael Bartoš
Keyword(s):  
Czech Republic ◽  
Rural Areas ◽  
Urban Areas ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Rural Regions ◽  
The Czech Republic ◽  
Residential Preferences ◽  
Second Homes ◽  
The Past ◽  
Automobile Use

Abstract Migration trends in the Czech Republic after 1990 are discussed in this paper. To evaluate the migration trends, the databases of immigrants and emigrants from the Czech Statistical Office from 1990 to 2010, are used. While migration from rural areas to urban areas prevailed in the past, after 1990 the direction changed: the population in rural areas with good natural and socio-cultural environments has been increasing due to migration. Small municipalities have a positive migration balance. We can conclude that these trends could be influenced primarily by social and environmental problems in cities, the increase in automobile use and the development of communication technologies, the migration of pensioners who settle in second homes, and the changing residential preferences of people and entrepreneurs.

scholarly journals Regional importance of forests and forestry for rural development

2011 ◽  
Vol 59 (4) ◽  
pp. 137-142
Author(s):  
Václav Kupčák
Keyword(s):  
Czech Republic ◽  
Forest Management ◽  
Rural Development ◽  
Regional Development ◽  
Rural Areas ◽  
Sustainable Forest Management ◽  
Social Role ◽  
Local Development ◽  
Location Factors ◽  
The Czech Republic

In the rural area represents forest management the significant and often the sole source of job opportunities, especially in border areas of the Czech Republic. As the sector is forestry such an important participant of regional development, incl. location factors relation in the face of traceable processing branches. All this increases the social role of forestry and it is a factual fulfilling of specific social functions of forest management in the sense of strategic development documents.National forestry programs are considered as concepts for application of sustainable forest management in long-term improvement of competitiveness of forestry. They are part of the state forestry policy and at the same time they fulfill the EU Forestry Strategy. The paper focuses on the National Forest Programme of the Czech Republic for the period up to 2013 in relation to regional development and the importance of forestry in rural development area in the Czech Republic.The paper focuses on the Programme LEADER too, aimed to engage in the rural areas more forestry bodies into the local action groups and into the elaboration of local development strategies.

scholarly journals Agriculture and farming related activities: their actors and position in the LEADER approac

2008 ◽  
Vol 54 (No. 6) ◽  
pp. 245-262
Author(s):  
M. Lošťák ◽  
H. Hudečková
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Czech Republic ◽  
Rural Development ◽  
Agricultural Policy ◽  
Rural Areas ◽  
The Czech Republic ◽  
Leader Influence ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Local Product

The paper aims to fill in the gap existing in the Czech Republic as for the research about the nature and impacts of the LEADER approach. The focus of the paper is to show how farming and agriculture related activities are addressed under the LEADER scheme in the European context and how does the LEADER influence the position of farming and related industries in rural development. Such outline is considered as the starting point for in-depth research in the LEADER in Czechia. To achieve such goal, the paper analyses the reports about the corresponding projects published in the Leader+ Magazine (edited by Leader+ Observatory). The analysis documents that LEADER supports collaborative actions. It is obvious that the farmers mostly participate in projects aiming at adding value to local product but they are not too active in improvement of the quality of life in rural areas. It opens the room for non-farming actors for their higher participation in rural development and thus it supports the reformulation of Common Agricultural Policy.

scholarly journals The economic conditions for the utilisation of the land fund in the Czech Republic after its accession to the European Union

2012 ◽  
Vol 51 (No. 10) ◽  
pp. 452-454
Author(s):  
M. Hrabánková
Keyword(s):  
European Union ◽  
Czech Republic ◽  
Rural Areas ◽  
Monitoring And Evaluation ◽  
Economic Conditions ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Environment Friendly ◽  
The Czech Republic ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
Public Benefit

The important part of the increase of regional potential is the farming of the land fund. The economic conditions for its utilisation have been already prepared. They are based especially on the drawing of funds of the European Union, namely for the period after the accession of the Czech Republic to the European Union and for the years 2007–2013. The measures concerning the land are included in the prepared programme documentation, especially in the Horizontal Rural Development Plan (HRDP) and in the Operational Programme “Agriculture”. The farmers will obtain the direct payment per area (SAPS) in addition to supports on foregoing measures. The requirements for environment-friendly farming of land will be increased in the future. The economic conditions for next period will concentrate on these priorities. It will concern the securing of public benefit contributing to the sustainable development of rural areas. The project assurance of these trends and their regional monitoring and evaluation will be important.

scholarly journals Position of seniors in rural areas in relation to the Czech Republic

Kontakt ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 21 (4) ◽  
pp. 416-423
Author(s):  
Renata Korcová ◽  
Jana Borská
Keyword(s):  
Czech Republic ◽  
Rural Areas ◽  
The Czech Republic

scholarly journals Major Forces Affecting Rural Regions in 2020

2021 ◽  
pp. 13-26
Author(s):  
David Freshwater
Keyword(s):  
Rural Development ◽  
Rural Areas ◽  
Information And Communications Technology ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Rural Regions ◽  
Rural And Urban ◽  
Effective Policy ◽  
Political Differences ◽  
National Governments ◽  
Urban People

Rural regions in OECD countries have always faced development challenges, resulting from their: reliance on natural resources, small labour forces, and long distances from markets, as well as the effects of globalization. Now, in addition, their development opportunities are further constrained by: climate change requirements, increased economic fragility resulting from COVID and the lingering effects of the 2008 recession, and the uneven impacts of the Internet economy. But, from a rural development policy perspective, perhaps the most important new challenge is the rise of rural populism. While rural areas and people have long been seen as distinct from their urban counterparts, in the last two decades these gaps have grown. Importantly, while the internet and information and communications technology (ICT) were initially seen as providing opportunities to improve social cohesion and link rural and urban people and places, instead they seem to have increased tensions. Because the core values of urban and rural people have grown so far apart, it is more difficult to establish the political compromises that are required to form effective policy. Absent some reconciliation of these social and political differences, it is difficult to see how national government policy can evolve to meet new challenges. Consequently, the likelihood of national governments being able to identify and implement coherent rural development policies is reduced.

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