scholarly journals Importance of non-wood forest product collection and use for inhabitants in the Czech Republic

2012 ◽  
Vol 52 (No. 9) ◽  
pp. 417-426 ◽  
Author(s):  
L. Šišák
Keyword(s):  
Czech Republic ◽  
Forest Products ◽  
Economic Importance ◽  
Forest Product ◽  
Research Projects ◽  
Recreational Activity ◽  
Research Project ◽  
The Czech Republic

The article investigates the socio-economic importance of collection and use of non-wood forest products (NWFP) for inhabitants in the Czech Republic (CR) in 2005 and brings a comparison with former investigations and research projects. The research project consisted of these parts in 2005: 1. Analysis of hitherto performed research projects and their results in 1999–2003, 2. Investigation of quantities and values of NWFP collected in 2004 and 2005, 3. Specific investigation of socio-economic importance of NWFP collection and use. The results of respective investigations prove NWFP collection being quite important for the inhabitants of the CR. The importance consists in the material value of picked commodities on the average annual level higher than 3,000 mil. CZK. Nevertheless, collecting NWFP is considered as a very important recreational activity. Only a small part of the population collecting NWFP (about 12%) collects NWFP to save money.

scholarly journals Exploring and explaining participation in local opposition: brown coal mining in Horní Jiřetín

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Filip Černoch ◽  
Lukáš Lehotský ◽  
Petr Ocelík ◽  
Jan Osička
Keyword(s):  
Czech Republic ◽  
Coal Mining ◽  
Brown Coal ◽  
Political Context ◽  
The Political ◽  
Northwestern Part ◽  
Research Project ◽  
The Czech Republic ◽  
Local Opposition ◽  
Opposition Movement

This book summarizes a three-year research project on local opposition to coal mining in the Northwestern part of the Czech Republic. The research focused on the relational dimensions of the opposition movement and the political context in which the movement operates.

scholarly journals Ministerial staff of the Czech Republic 25 years after the ‘Velvet Revolution’

2018 ◽  
Vol 37 (1) ◽  
pp. 46-66 ◽  
Author(s):  
František Ochrana ◽  
Michal Plaček ◽  
Michal Křápek
Keyword(s):  
Czech Republic ◽  
Residual Effects ◽  
Communist Regime ◽  
Soviet Bloc ◽  
Research Projects ◽  
The Czech Republic ◽  
Level Of Education ◽  
Velvet Revolution

The article analyses ministerial staff of the Czech Republic 25 years after the Velvet Revolution. It characterizes ministerial employees during the period of the communist regime in former Czechoslovakia (1948–1989) and following the anti-communist coup. In order to analyse the present-day situation, it uses our own survey of the staff working at ministries in the Czech Republic. Within the survey (conducted April–June 2013) all 14 ministries of the Czech Republic were contacted. In total, 1351 respondents (ministerial employees of the Czech Republic) participated in the survey. The research aimed to examine the gender structure, age, education, acquired experience and performed activities of ministerial staff. The results of the research also signal that in some areas (e.g. within the so-called systematized employment positions and the prescribed level of education at some ministries) the residual effects of the previous regime still manifest themselves. The results of this research may be an inspiration for similar research projects in other countries of the former Soviet bloc.

scholarly journals Supporting programmes of the growing of short rotation coppices in the Czech Republic 

2012 ◽  
Vol 52 (No. 11) ◽  
pp. 522-531
Author(s):  
H. Součková
Keyword(s):  
Czech Republic ◽  
Financial Support ◽  
Food Production ◽  
Research Project ◽  
The Czech Republic ◽  
Rural Space ◽  
Short Rotation

This article presents some partial conclusions from the solution to the Research Project QF 4142 Higher exploitation of non-food production in the industry. The funding and supporting programmes of the growing of short rotation coppices (SRC) are described. The establishment of short rotation coppices and the subsequent exploitation of wood mass are promising trends of diversification of farmers’ activities in the rural space. Plot sizes in ha and financial support to the establishment of the SRC plantations are given for 2001–2004, when a total of 166 ha of supported short rotation coppices was established. The establishment support is paid at a single installment while the amount paid for the establishment of the SRC production plantation is 60 000 CZK/ha and the amount paid for the establishment of mother plantation (reproduction plantation) is 75 000 CZK/ha. 

Qualitative research in reproductive medicine: From description to action

Human Affairs ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 22 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Hana Konečná ◽  
Tonko Mardešić ◽  
Taťána Rumpíková ◽  
Tomáš Kučera
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Czech Republic ◽  
Assisted Reproduction ◽  
Reproductive Medicine ◽  
Structural Changes ◽  
International Communication ◽  
Research Project ◽  
The Czech Republic

AbstractAssisted reproduction (ART), particularly that performed using donated gametes, increases the prospect of healthy babies being delivered to increasing numbers of people striving for parenthood. The psychosocial, ethical and legislative issues related both to the donation and receipt of gametes are perceived as extraordinarily complicated. In 2009, a research project aimed at mapping the issues was drawn up and implemented in the Czech Republic. The project should have provided material for consultation purposes, for the work of ethical and legislative bodies, and for better interdisciplinary and international communication in reproductive medicine. Work on the project was affected by several unforeseen events, particularly by the drafting and adoption of a new law on ART (to which the project was initially to have contributed material once concluded). The article describes the dynamic and structural changes occurring within the project due to drafting of the bill as well as the changes and consequences resulting from other circumstances related to the topic researched.

Waste Building Materials to Roads in Czech Republic

2016 ◽  
Vol 832 ◽  
pp. 10-17
Author(s):  
Dušan Stehlík ◽  
Petr Hyzl ◽  
Michal Varaus
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Czech Republic ◽  
Building Material ◽  
Building Materials ◽  
Recycled Aggregate ◽  
Research Projects ◽  
Research Focus ◽  
The Czech Republic ◽  
Granular Mixtures

Using waste building materials in pavements is one of the goals of transportation sustainable development in the Czech Republic. As part of research projects of the Technology Agency of the Czech Republic, a project was devised, which focused on maximal utilization of waste building materials when constructing pavements. After the initial verification of properties of the recycled aggregate (especially concrete waste building material), the research focus shifted towards the utilization of these waste building materials in cement bound granular mixtures.

scholarly journals Occurrence, development and economic importance of Phratora (= Phyllodecta) vitellinae (L.) (Coleoptera, Chrysomelidae)

2012 ◽  
Vol 52 (No. 8) ◽  
pp. 357-385 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. Urban
Keyword(s):  
Czech Republic ◽  
Growing Season ◽  
Economic Importance ◽  
The Czech Republic ◽  
Salix Fragilis ◽  
In Captivity

The paper summarizes results of the study of the occurrence, development and harmfulness of Phratora (= Phyllodecta) vitellinae (L.). The majority of studies was carried out in 1998 to 2005 in riparian and accompanying stands of the Svitava and Svratka rivers in the region of Brno and in a laboratory. Imagoes leave hibernation hiding places at the end of April and at the beginning of May. In captivity, they lived on Salix fragilis about 2.5 months damaging on average 28.6 cm<sup>2 </sup>leaf blades and laying on average 293 eggs. In the excessively warm growing season of 2005, imagoes lived about 3.5 months after hibernation, however, already after one month of feeding they fell in a month diapause at the beginning of June. Before its start, they damaged on average 12.8 cm<sup>2</sup> (after the diapause 14.4 cm<sup>2</sup>) leaves and laid on average 389 eggs (of this number, 260 eggs before and 129 after the diapause). Larvae damage about 4 cm<sup>2</sup> leaves during 2 to 3 weeks (in the laboratory during 12 to 13 days). After 2 to 3 weeks (in the laboratory after 10 to 12 days) from the cessation of feeding young beetles appear on trees. Imagoes of the 1<sup>st</sup> generation occur from mid-June to the beginning of October. During about 55 days of life, they damaged 19 cm<sup>2 </sup>leaves and laid on average 182 eggs. Imagoes of the 2<sup>nd</sup> generation occur from mid-August to the end of the growing season. After 10 to 14 days of feeding (without previous copulation), they take shelter in wintering places. In the laboratory, however, these imagoes damaged about 19 cm<sup>2</sup> leaves during 2 months and laid about 190 eggs. Wintering places were looked up by imagoes of the 3<sup>rd</sup> generation which damaged on average 4.2 cm<sup>2 </sup>leaves before hibernation. In the Czech Republic, P. vitellinae is usually bivoltine the 2<sup>nd</sup> generation being always incomplete.

MODERN TURBO-ROUNDABOUTS AND THEIR DESIGNING IN THE CZECH REPUBLIC

2016 ◽  
Vol 78 (5-3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Miroslav Patočka ◽  
Martin Smělý
Keyword(s):  
Czech Republic ◽  
Road Network ◽  
Research Project ◽  
Traffic Signs ◽  
The Czech Republic ◽  
Design Elements ◽  
National Regulation ◽  
The Way

Even though the turbo roundabouts have been designed in the Czech Republic since the beginning of this century, until the middle of 2015, there was no national regulation which would describe the way of their construction. As a result of this, there are only 10 turbo-roundabouts with various widths of design elements and different traffic signs in the Czech Republic now. From this number there are some that even cannot be considered a turbo-roundabout. The aim of this paper is to present the results we gained within the research project and to present readers with the approach to the construction of geometry of turbo-roundabouts in the conditions of Czech road network and existing legislation and standards. 

Finanční stabilita rozpočtů obcí Jihočeského kraje v kontextu meziobecní spolupráce

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jiří Dušek
Keyword(s):  
Economic Development ◽  
Czech Republic ◽  
Regional Development ◽  
Graphical Analysis ◽  
The Self ◽  
Research Projects ◽  
The South ◽  
The Czech Republic ◽  
Socio Economic Development ◽  
Economic Background

In recent years, several research projects on barriers to inter-municipal cooperation have been implemented in the Czech Republic and abroad. However, the research results reflect the respective local and regional specificities and the results and conclusions are therefore diametrically different depending on the specific conditions in the country. The main goal of the paper is to analyse uneven socio-economic development of the municipalities in the South Bohemian Region on the example of the development of cooperation among the municipalities of the South Bohemian Region in relation to the economic background of the municipalities. When assessing the budget-related aspects of the municipality, it is not possible to prefer and take into account only the revenue side, it is also necessary to emphasize the expenditure side. In our case, we use what is called the self-financing rate (the share of own revenues in the current expenditures of the municipality). There is a hypothesis that municipalities with a higher rate of self-financing tend to get less involved in cooperation of municipalities, i.e. the higher the rate of self-financing, the lower the level of cooperation of municipalities. Economically stronger municipalities have no reason/interest to unite their forces with other entities in order to solve problems of regional development. The theoretical part of the work deals with searching for knowledge related to the issue of regional development and cooperation of municipalities and introduces individual methods, which are then applied as part of the analysis of municipalities. The author researched cooperation of municipalities between 2007 and 2020. However, in spite of the results of the graphical analysis, the above-mentioned hypothesis was not confirmed.

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