Macroeconomic stabilization and the sustainable development of enterprises – the case of Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Poland, and Romania

The main goal of the article is to summarise existing methods of assessment of sustainable development at different levels (world, national, regional) and to consider the usage of one set of indicators – European common indicators – in the conditions of the Czech Republic and its regions. As there are many different methods for evaluating the sustainable development and this methodology has not been unified so far, it is not all clear, especially for regional authorities, what methodology to use, if they are willing to monitor and analyse the level of sustainable development in their regions. Most of the worldwide or national set of indicators are not very suitable for the regional level and vice versa.In the course of the analysis of existing methodology the authors selected one of them, which seemed to be perfectly suitable for the regional sustainable development and set out the hypothesis concerning the question if this methodology could be transferred and applied into the Czech regional conditions without any change and how does it interfere with the national set of indicators.In the final part of this article and in the discussion these two methodologies are compared, partial changes are proposed and certain new considerations are offered.

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Social and Economic Aspects of Sustainable Development of Livestock Production and Meat Consumption in the Czech Republic

Agriculture ◽

10.3390/agriculture11020102 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 11 (2) ◽

pp. 102

Author(s):

Karel Šrédl ◽

Marie Prášilová ◽

Lucie Severová ◽

Roman Svoboda ◽

Michal Štěbeták

Keyword(s):

Sustainable Development ◽

Czech Republic ◽

Eating Habits ◽

Meat Consumption ◽

Livestock Production ◽

Meat Production ◽

Economic Aspects ◽

Market Prices ◽

The Czech Republic ◽

The Sustainable Development

The aim of this article was to express social and economic aspects of the sustainable livestock production in relation to meat consumption in the Czech Republic and to predict the possibilities of further development of livestock production in the conditions of Czech agriculture. With the accession of Czechia to the EU (2004), the structure of Czech agriculture changed to the detriment of livestock production. The decisive sectors of livestock production are pig breeding, cattle breeding and poultry farming. This article (contribution) analyzes trends in the development of production in the basic categories of livestock, and it evaluates the degree of self-sufficiency of the economy in the given sector of agricultural production and the consumption of individual types of meat in Czechia. Using Holt’s model of statistical analysis, it then predicts the future consumption of meat and its individual types in the Czech Republic in the years 2020–2024. As research has shown, the sustainable development of livestock production and meat consumption in the Czech Republic depends not only on the mutual size of meat production and consumption or its quality, but also significantly on the market prices of meat (including world prices), as well as changes in eating habits of the population.

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Editorial 2015/X/2

Envigogika ◽

10.14712/18023061.497 ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 10 (2) ◽

Author(s):

Jana Dlouhá

Keyword(s):

Sustainable Development ◽

Czech Republic ◽

Environmental Education ◽

Sustainable Development Goals ◽

The Czech Republic ◽

The Sustainable Development ◽

Starting Position ◽

Development Goals

This new issue brings (together with the reviewed papers that focus on environmentally oriented approaches at all levels of education in several countries of Europe) also translated article Convergence Between Science and Environmental Education originally published in Science in 2014. The editorial briefly discusses the starting position of the Czech Republic in the Sustainable Development Goals process.

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Inclusive Growth in CEE Countries as a Determinant of Sustainable Development

Sustainability ◽

10.3390/su10113973 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 10 (11) ◽

pp. 3973 ◽

Cited By ~ 5

Author(s):

Ewa Cichowicz ◽

Ewa Rollnik-Sadowska

Keyword(s):

Sustainable Development ◽

Multivariate Analysis ◽

Czech Republic ◽

Transition Economies ◽

Eastern European ◽

Inclusive Growth ◽

Development Research ◽

The Czech Republic ◽

Components Analysis ◽

Eastern European Countries

Pursuant to the concept of inclusive growth, the authors analyze the transition economies of Central and Eastern European countries, which have become EU members (Bulgaria, Croatia, the Czech Republic, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Hungary, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, and Slovenia). CEE countries characterized by comparable historic and economic backgrounds now seem to reach diversified stages of development. The objective of the study is to identify the level of inclusive growth among CEE countries by taking into account indicators assigned to its seven pillars. The article’s thesis is that CEE countries represent social and economic heterogeneity as well as varied levels of sustainable development. Research methods included the application of the principal components analysis and the multivariate analysis. For a literature review, the bibliometric analysis was conducted with the visualization prepared by the VOSviewer software. The main findings suggest that Estonia, Slovenia, and the Czech Republic seem to exhibit the highest level of inclusive growth while Bulgaria and Romania represent the lowest level of indicators measured.

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

Agricultural Economics (Zemědělská ekonomika) ◽

10.17221/5136-agricecon ◽

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.

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Inclusive Growth of the CEE Countries as a Determinant of Sustainable Development

10.20944/preprints201809.0344.v1 ◽

2018 ◽

Author(s):

Ewa Cichowicz ◽

Ewa Rollnik-Sadowska

Keyword(s):

Sustainable Development ◽

Czech Republic ◽

Transition Economies ◽

Eastern European ◽

Inclusive Growth ◽

The Czech Republic ◽

Economic Background ◽

Components Analysis ◽

Eastern European Countries ◽

Different Levels

Referring to the concept of inclusive growth, the authors analyse the transition economies of the Central and Eastern European countries, which are the current EU members (Bulgaria, Croatia, the Czech Republic, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Hungary, Poland, Romania, Slovakia and Slovenia). That region was selected as the CEE countries characterized by comparable historic and economic background but now they seem to reach diversified stages of development. The objective of the study is to identify the level of inclusive growth among the CEE countries, taking into account indicators assigned to its seven pillars. The thesis is that the CEE countries represent socio and economic heterogeneity as well as different levels of sustainable development. The research methods involved the application of the principal components analysis and the multivariate analysis. For literature review, the bibliometric analysis was conducted with the visualization prepared by the VOSviewer software. The main findings suggest that Estonia, Slovenia and the Czech Republic seem to be the ones with the highest inclusive growth. On the other hand, Bulgaria and Romania represent the lowest level of inclusive growth indicators.

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Public Procurement in the Czech Republic

Public Sector Transformation Processes and Internet Public Procurement ◽

10.4018/978-1-4666-2665-2.ch010 ◽

2012 ◽

pp. 210-226 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Jirí Novosák ◽

Oldrich Hájek ◽

Jirí Machu

Keyword(s):

Sustainable Development ◽

Czech Republic ◽

Regional Development ◽

Small And Medium Enterprises ◽

Public Procurement ◽

Regional Disparities ◽

The Czech Republic ◽

Dominant Position ◽

Medium Enterprises

Relations between public procurement, regional development, and e-procurement are discussed in this chapter. First, main themes of the debate are reviewed. Subsequently, some relations between public procurement, regional development, and e-procurement are discussed. The Czech Republic is used as a case study in this regard. The authors’ findings confirm the potential of public procurement to stimulate development of Czech regions. Spatially, public procurement may not be regarded as a suitable tool for reduction of regional disparities. However, there seems to be an important impact of public procurement on the development of local small and medium enterprises. In addition, the authors’ findings point at some links between public procurement and the concepts of sustainable development and competitiveness. Nevertheless, the dominant position of price as evaluation criterion indicates that the linkages are rather weak. Finally, the increasing interest of the Czech Republic in e-procurement was documented.

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Sustainable development in the Czech Republic: A doomed process?

Environmental Politics ◽

10.1080/09644019808414375 ◽

1998 ◽

Vol 7 (1) ◽

pp. 113-128 ◽

Cited By ~ 10

Author(s):

Adam Fagin ◽

Petr Jehlička

Keyword(s):

Sustainable Development ◽

Czech Republic ◽

The Czech Republic

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Cross-border cooperation in the Czech-Austrian borderland

Regional'nye issledovaniya ◽

10.5922/1994-5280-2019-2-7 ◽

2019 ◽

pp. 68-79

Author(s):

Yu. I. Budiak ◽

B. A. Giter ◽

E. A. Grechko

Keyword(s):

Czech Republic ◽

Fire Department ◽

Economic Factors ◽

Significant Progress ◽

Economic Space ◽

The Czech Republic ◽

The Sustainable Development ◽

Economic Relations ◽

Cross Border ◽

Cross Border Cooperation

After WWII the transformation of the Czech-Austrian borderlands is connected with destruction of single ethno-cultural and economic space, lengthy period of the border impenetrability, social and economic backwardness of the borderlands. That period of Czech-Austrian relations has had lasting impact, strengthening the mental borders between the Austrian and the Czech that slows the recovery of the ties. The Czech-Austrian interaction within the framework of euroregions play a significant role in the revival of relationships. Among the existing in the Czech Republic euroregions with the participation of Austria (Shumava, Pomoraví, Silva Nortica), only Silva Nortica completely based on bilateral Czech-Austrian cooperation for the sustainable development of border areas. The article examines causes and consequences of the Czech-Austrian ties destruction, as well as the process of their recovery using the case of the Euroregion Silva Nortica. In the paper, we showed the importance of non-economic factors in the development of cross-border cooperation. Despite significant progress in the economic relations between Austria and the Czech Republic, especially in trade and tourism, the interaction in the borderlands remains low. To enhance this interaction, the countries attempts to create new “points of attraction” by consolidation of public services, for example, fire department within the euroregions

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Waste Building Materials to Roads in Czech Republic

Applied Mechanics and Materials ◽

10.4028/www.scientific.net/amm.832.10 ◽

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.

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