Publikační činnost Katedry regionální a environmentální ekonomiky / Publications of Department of Regional and Environmental Economics (118)

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Assessment of the relationship between health and sustainable development in the countries of the European Union
(Slovenská akadémia vied, Ekonomický ústav. Centrum spoločenských a psychologických vied SAV, Prognostický ústav., 2020) Drastichová, Magdaléna
The social dimension of sustainable development (SD) and those aspects of it related to human health are crucial for SD. By means of hierarchical cluster analysis (HCA) and principal component analysis (PCA) the European Union countries and other three developed countries were assessed using selected indicators reflecting aspects of health related to SD. Five indicators reflecting these aspects at the macroeconomic level were used. These were a pair of objective indicators, a pair of subjective indicators and one indicator reflecting resources for health care. They were applied in order to cluster the 31 countries for each year in the period 2011 - 2015 and also for the whole period. Four clusters were created for the years 2011 - 2014, three clusters for 2015, and five clusters for the overall period. Switzerland was evaluated as the best performing country in the sample, and Lithuania as the worst. Czechia exhibited a significant shift towards higher sustainability.
The relationship between health outcomes and health expenditure in Europe by using compositional data analysis
(Politechnika Lubelska, Wydział Inżynierii Środowiska, 2020) Drastichová, Magdaléna; Filzmoser, Peter
The type of health system in each country and the resources devoted to it determine its outcomes. Relationships between ratios of expenditure to Gross Domestic Product (GDP) classified by provider and indicators reflecting health outcomes in 2015 are examined for 30 countries by means of a compositional data analysis and a regression analysis. The countries in the sample are the European Union (EU-28) countries plus Iceland and Norway. The outcome indicators used are life expectancy at birth (LE); healthy life years in absolute value at birth for females (HLYf) and for males (HLYm); and death rate due to chronic diseases (DR) (response variables). The results indicate that the higher the ratio of expenditure on retailers and other providers of medical goods in relation to other types of expenditure in the composition, the higher the DR indicator and the lower the LE indicator. The ratio of expenditure on residential long-term care facilities in the composition seems to have had a positive effect on both HLY indicators. The effect of expenditure ratios on providers of healthcare system administration and financing is not straightforward.
The benefit of failure: On the development of Ostrava's culture
(MDPI, 2019) Sucháček, Jan
Peculiar cultures are symptomatic for areas of traditional industry. The purpose of this paper is to analyze and evaluate cultural and creative industries in Ostrava, the third largest town of the country that at the same time constitutes a typical representative of old industrial urban fabrics in the Czech Republic. Special attention will be devoted to the emerging cultural clusters that appear to be indispensable in terms of sustainable cultural management. Unique qualities of Ostrava's culture culminated in 2009, when the town decided to stand for the prestigious title of the European Capital of Culture. Finally, Ostrava did not succeed, nonetheless the contest vivified the discourse on Ostrava's culture and a distinctive potential for the creation of cultural clusters was revealed. Semi-structured interviews accomplished with relevant actors of the town's culture facilitated contextual interpretation of the role of cultural and creative industries as well as mapping the potential cultural clusters in the town. The research question posed in this article is as follows: do development effects formed by the concentration of creative and cultural industries in Ostrava exist? It turned out that the paths towards cultural management sustainability can differ substantially from recipes, which are well-proven in leading developed territories. The results of our analysis confirmed some developmental effects evoked by the concentration of cultural industries and cultural clusters in Ostrava can be identified, but genuine qualitative transformation towards a more cultural and sustainable milieu in Ostrava undoubtedly requires more time.
Assessment of sustainable development using cluster analysis and principal component analysis
(Politechnika Lubelska, Wydział Inżynierii Środowiska, 2019) Drastichová, Magdaléna; Filzmoser, Peter
The European Union (EU) Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) indicator set replaced the EU Sustainable Development Strategy (SDS) in 2017. The selected indicators of this set were chosen for the analysis to classify the sample of the 28 EU countries along with Norway according to their performance in sustainability. In the selection of indicators, priority was given to the indicators reflecting the social dimension of SD, along with important representatives of the economic, ecological and institutional dimensions of SD generally. Hierarchical Cluster Analysis (HCA) and Principal Component Analysis (PCA) were applied to the data of 12 indicators in the period 2012- 2016. By means of the HCA, four clusters were created in each year of the period 2012-2016 using the indicator values of particular years and then using all the indicator values in all the monitored years for the general assignment of countries to particular clusters. According to changes in the assignment to particular clusters over the years, the sustainability of development and the path of SD in the examined countries are assessed. As regards the core countries of each cluster, cluster 1 includes the most developed EU countries and is thus evaluated as the best performing cluster. Cluster 2 including the least developed EU countries is evaluated as the worst performing cluster. Cluster 3 predominantly includes the transitive economies and it is evaluated as the second best performing cluster according to the indicators applied. Cluster 4 containing the Southern countries is assessed as the second worst performing cluster. From the shifts of countries that occurred between the years, the shift of Ireland from cluster 3 to cluster 1 in 2013 must be emphasised as the move towards higher sustainability. The shift of Slovakia and Hungary from cluster 2 to cluster 3 in 2013 is also evaluated as progress towards higher sustainability.
Regions in TV news broadcasting: Selected aspects on the example of the Czech Republic
(Prešovská univerzita v Prešove, 2018) Urminský, Jaroslav
The presented contribution evaluates the role of mass media within territorial development. The purpose of the paper is to analyze and evaluate regionally bound TV news reporting in the Czech Republic between years 2005-2011. The attention is focused on the information about economies of self-governing regions (NUTS III) broadcasted in the news reporting of main television stations in the Czech Republic. A combination of research methods was used. Due to the character of dataset, empirical research is based on the contingency tables. Afterwards Pearson's chi-square test and Cramer's V were used. Correspondence analysis was applied for the evaluation and visualization of virtual reflection of economic information about regions. Development potential of the territory could be suppressed or supported by the mass media, as virtual portrayals may (not) correspond to the real character of the territory. One single event can distort the entire portrayal of a particular territory. We find also differences in the structure of information between public and commercial televisions. Content structure of concrete TV broadcasting substantially affects audience opinion.
Management of municipal development of Euroregion Beskydy in Poland and Czechia
(Czestochowa University of Technology, Faculty of Management, 2018) Sucháček, Jan; Walancik, Marek; Wróblewski, Lukasz; Urminský, Jaroslav; Drastichová, Magdaléna; Šotkovský, Ivan
Euroregions have become one of the most used terms with regard to local and regional development. Their significance in Central Europe is even greater because the region has a complicated history and has been traditionally criss-crossed by countless borders of various types. The Euroregion Beskydy lies in the border areas in the east of the Czech Republic, north-western Slovakia and the south of Poland. The aim of this paper is to analyse and assess the possibilities of managing its development at the communal level both in the Polish and Czech parts of this territorial group. The research is underpinned by questionnaire survey accomplished in selected municipalities of Euroregion Beskydy. Respondent opinions were evaluated on the basis of the Likert scale. Mann Whitney U test was applied for the assessment of opinion differences. It turned out; there is quite a strong identification of municipalities with Euroregion Beskydy. Yet, the financial motives of municipal membership in this Euroregion are prevailing.
The spatial distribution of largest firms in the Czech Republic and its managerial implications
(De Gruyter, 2018) Sucháček, Jan; Urminský, Jaroslav; Škapa, Stanislav
Corporate headquarters, which occupy the top of enterprise organizational hierarchies became the subject of an increased interest in last three decades. Until now, post-transformation economies suffer from a distinct cognitive gap in this respect. The main objective of this paper is to analyse and interpret the development of the spatial pattern of top 100 biggest companies in the Czech Republic. Both quantitative and qualitative dimension of this issue will be investigated in the frame of this article. The basic territorial level we examine is constituted by self-governing regions. Finally, particular managerial and regionally-orientated recommendations for both largest enterprises and public administration will be formulated. Highlights for public administration, management and planning: Foreign owners of largest enterprises perceive the location decision-making as much more complex and versatile process than their Czech counterparts. Owners from advanced economies accentuate soft location factors more intensely than their domestic peers. Regional authorities should develop more initiatives and improve their institutional density to become investor-friendly and bait the corporate headquarters. Both regional authorities and enterprise managements should concentrate on the creation of milieu conducive to quality labour.
Decomposition analysis of greenhouse gas emissions in the European Union based on its sectoral structure
(Slovenská akadémia vied, Ekonomický ústav. Slovenská akadémia vied, Prognostický ústav, 2018) Drastichová, Magdaléna
Climate change is a serious threat to sustainable development (SD). A Decomposition Analysis (DA) of the data on Greenhouse Gas (GHG) emissions in the European Union (EU) in 2008 - 2014 was carried out using the Log-Mean Divisia Index Method (LMDI). To detect the factors behind de/coupling of GHG emissions from Gross Value Added (GVA) in the EU-28, changes of GHG emissions were divided into three effects. The negative intensity effect showed the highest absolute magnitude in the overall period 2008 - 2014 and the two partial periods 2008 - 2011 and 2011 - 2014. The composition effect also helped reduce GHG emissions, but to a lesser extent. The scale effect boosted increases of GHG emissions except for two years, 2009 and 2012, which was related to the effects of the economic crisis. Transportation and storage along with the Agriculture, forestry and fishing activities should be addressed more significantly in relation to GHG emissions.
Czech machinery cluster and its role in sustainable development of Moravian-Silesian enterprises during the post-transformation era
(MDPI, 2018) Sucháček, Jan; Štverková, Hana; Kašík, Josef
The paper intends to contribute to the field of geographical economics by an extensive questionnaire survey carried out in Moravian-Silesian region, which represents one of territories of traditional industry in the Czech Republic. The purpose of this paper is to analyse and assess the co-operation among enterprises, educational institutions, and public administration from the perspective of sustainability in the Moravian-Silesian region during its post-transformation era. The article deals specifically with the Czech machinery cluster. The research question that lies behind the survey is as follows: Is the co-operation of entities present in the Czech machinery cluster beneficial to the parties involved? The contribution of the paper is in uncovering the role of this cluster in the sustainable development of Moravian-Silesian enterprises during post-transformation period. Since the Moravian-Silesian region is a typical old industrial region, which moreover underwent a difficult transformation process, there are numerous peculiarities in functioning of its enterprises. Machinery was traditionally one of the supportive pillars of regional industry and it is not surprising that the machinery cluster was created as the first one. Yet, regional characteristics lie behind specific trajectories towards economic sustainability. The above ways toward economic sustainability differ markedly from the concepts that are in vogue in developed western territories.
Managerial decision-making on the location of banking headquarters in the Czech Republic
(De Gruyter, 2017) Sucháček, Jan; Skaličková, Jolana; Široký, Jan
Location decision-making constitutes one of pivotal tasks for banking managements, which applies to both banking headquarters and affiliates. The main objective of this article consists in analysis and interpretation of location factors that stay behind location-decision making of banking managements and subsequent collocation of banking head offices in the Czech Republic. In doing so, cluster analysis was utilised appropriately and it turned out, initial 18 location factors can be decreased to final three mutually similar groups, which satisfactorily embody location criteria banking managements take into account. As it has been proven banking landscape in the Czech Republic is still influenced by traditional hard factors of location, nonetheless their soft counterparts should be increasingly considered.
Size and regional varieties of communal marketing in the Czech Republic
(Czestochowa University of Technology, Faculty of Management, 2017) Sucháček, Jan; Seďa, Petr; Friedrich, Václav
Territorial marketing became one of the most useful devices of communal managements. Naturally, communities form complex and entirely specific entities and that is why numerous peculiar features are concomitant to territorial marketing. The purpose of this article is to show the state of municipal marketing and to monitor this type of marketing within contemporary communal practice in the Czech Republic. Larger communities turned out to be more fastidious and prefer to bait primarily people with university education while their smaller peers are thankful for any new inhabitants. Larger communities also prefer foreign investors and regard journalists in the framework of relationship marketing more. Apart from size peculiarities there appeared also numerous regional specifics of communal marketing in the country, which are in consonance with genuine features of these territories.
Regional aspects of the development of largest enterprises in the Czech Republic
(Taylor & Francis, Vilnius Gediminas Technical University, 2017) Sucháček, Jan; Seďa, Petr; Friedrich, Václav; Koutský, Jaroslav
Location processes are constitutive for the formation of economic landscape. Largest enterprises represent one of the most important units of territorial economies. Their role is palpable mainly in the sphere of employment, technological level, value chains, competition as well as overall economic power. It is far from surprising that the weight of enterprise headquarters is higher than that of their affiliates. Therefore, the main objective of our article is to analyze and assess the development of spatial organization of one hundred largest enterprise head offices in the Czech Republic from both quantitative and qualitative perspectives. Due to data limitations, size of the enterprise is measured by its turnover. Spatial distribution of one hundred largest Czech enterprises and its development over time represent the focal point of our evaluation from quantitative point of view. The analysis was based upon annually published top 100 databases. Qualitative assessment is underpinned by the results of the questionnaire, which was focused on particular location factors accentuated by largest enterprises. Consistency analysis and exploratory factor analysis provide us with useful instrument for the evaluation of qualitative dimension of the issue and help us to conceptualize location preferences of largest enterprises in the country.
Decomposition analysis of the greenhouse gas emissions in the European Union
(Politechnika Lubelska, Wydział Inżynierii Środowiska, 2017) Drastichová, Magdaléna
Climate change is a significant threat to sustainable development (SD). Using the Log-Mean Divisia Index Method (LMDI) a decomposition of the data on the greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in the European Union (EU) in 2000 -2013 is carried out. To detect if decoupling of the environmental variable represented by the GHG emissions from the economic variable represented by the GDP was taking place in the EU economy, the changes of the GHG emissions were divided into three effects. These factors include the economic activity (scale), the composition or structure of the EU economy with respect to the countries, and GHG intensity of the countries. The aim of the paper is to detect if decoupling of the GHG emissions from the GDP development in the EU took place and to detect the factors of this development. The intensity effect was mainly responsible for the reduction of the GHG emissions in the EU while the scale effect contributed to their increase. The role of the composition effect was only marginal; however, it was positive. As the intensity effect often showed the high negative values, the total effect was often negative as well, which means that decoupling of GHG emissions from GDP took place.
Metallurgy in the Czech Republic: a spatio-temporal view
(Hrvatsko Metalurško Društvo, 2017) Sucháček, Jan; Samolejová, Andrea; Seďa, Petr
The objective of this paper is to introduce the stochastic input-output model of the impact of metallurgy sector on the Czech economy. Contrary to original input-output model, which is of deterministic nature, we reckon with interval estimates of the development of metallurgy sector. They help us to surpass deterministic impediments when analyzing and forecasting the possible developmental tendencies of metallurgy sector in various economies.
Decomposition analysis of the material consumption in the European Union
(Slovenská akadémia vied, Ekonomický ústav. Slovenská akadémia vied, Prognostický ústav, 2016) Drastichová, Magdaléna
The decomposition analysis (DA) has become a widely accepted analytical tool for policymaking on environmental issues. By means of the Log-Mean Divisia Index Method (LMDI) a decomposition of the data on the Domestic Material Consumption (DMC) in the European Union (EU) in 2002 - 2014 is carried out. To detect the factors of de/coupling of the environmental variable, represented by the DMC, from the economic variable, represented by the GDP, in the EU economy, the changes of DMC were divided into three effects. These factors include the economic activity (scale), the composition or structure of the EU economy with respect to the countries, and material intensity of the countries. The results indicate that the intensity effect showed the highest magnitude in the longer-term periods 2002 2014 and 2004 2014, but overall and in the majority of years, this effect was negative. The scale effect showed the second highest extent, whereas the composition effect was only slight. Both of them were positive in the majority of the years as well as in total.
From regional to national clouds: TV coverage in the Czech Republic
(PLOS, 2016) Sucháček, Jan; Seďa, Petr; Friedrich, Václav; Wachowiak-Smolíková, Renata; Wachowiak, Mark P.
Media, and particularly TV media, have a great impact on the general schema_dspacedb. In recent years, spatial patterns of information and the relevance of intangible geographies have become increasingly important. Gatekeeping plays a critical role in the selection of information that is transformed into media. Therefore, gatekeeping, through national media, also co-forms the generation of mental maps. In this paper, correspondence analysis (a statistical method) combined with cloud lines (a new visual analytics technique) is used to analyze how individual major regional events in one of the post-communist countries, the Czech Republic, penetrate into the media on a national scale. Although national news should minimize distortions about regions, this assumption has not been verified by our research. Impressions presented by the media of selected regions that were markedly influenced by one or several events in those regions demonstrate that gatekeepers, especially news reporters, functioned as a filter by selecting only a few specific, and in many cases, unusual events for dissemination.
A typology of EU countries in terms of population growth in the period from 1990 to 2009
(Akademie věd České republiky, Ústav geoniky, 2011) Šotkovský, Ivan
Changes in population growth in the EU countries in the last twenty years are presented in this article. Death rates, birth rates and migration were investigated for the period from 1990 to 2009. The role of population growth in this study is directed to all 27 members of the European Union retrospectively to 1990, even though at that time the EU consisted of only twelve member countries. The dynamic spatial typology is presented on the basis of a series of values of the following three basic demographic indices: the crude rate of natural increase (CRNI), crude rate of net migration (CRNM), and crude rate of total population increase (CRTPI).
Large enterprise branches: the case of the Czech Republic
(Centre of Sociological Research, 2015) Sucháček, Jan
Importance of largest enterprises is steadily augmenting. In contrast to small- and middle-sized firms, their large counterparts influence individual territorial economies with much higher intensity. The Czech Republic, which represents an object of the article, is a country, where big companies traditionally played a relevant role. While headquarters of large enterprises have been subject to several solid analyses, an attention devoted to their first-tier affiliates is far from sufficient. In order to find meaningful similarities among location factors of firsttier affiliates of one hundred largest enterprises in the country, cluster analysis proved to be useful. Generally, attitudes of managements responsible for the location of first-tier affiliates turned out to be driven largely by pragmatism as a strategy to succeed in contemporary turbulent socioeconomic environment. The paper contributes to filling mainly in informational gaps.
Regional dimension of security and accidents and their TV reflection in the Czech Republic
(Vilnius University, 2015) Sucháček, Jan; Seďa, Petr; Friedrich, Václav; Koutský, Jaroslav
The information provided by the media can be related to plenty of entities including individuals, organizations as well as territories of various kinds and scales. Indeed, images of individual communities, regions as well as whole countries are increasingly being shaped just by the media. The role of TV coverage is indispensable in this context as it has the most intense impact on the wide schema_dspacedb. Moreover, TV news reporting agenda to a great extent embodies also press or radio coverage agenda. This paper aims at evaluating whether the selected attributes of the real life in NUTS III regions in the Czech Republic find their adequate portrayals in the regionally-related contributions appearing within the national TV news reporting. The share of news concerning the given topic in individual regions should correspond to the presence of the theme in territorial statistics. This article will attempt to uncover the intensity of the above mentioned correspondence. The previously accomplished qualitative researches have revealed that the thematic categories of security and accidents represent nearly half of the topics in regionally-related contributions within the national TV coverage. Both security and accidents themes are distributed unevenly within the national TV news reporting. The key issue is whether spatial differentiation appearing in the TV news reporting reflects the real territorial figures and statistics, i.e., the amount of criminal offences and traffic accidents. Criminal offences and road casualties are both geographically differentiated, but does TV coverage reflect this differentiation in an objective and adequate way? The answer can be derived from this paper. Arguably, the relation between the TV news reporting and regions, which is stated only seldom, will attract higher attention in the near future.
Contribution of environmental voluntary schemes to sustainable development in the European Union
(Slovenská akadémia vied. Ekonomický ústav, 2015) Drastichová, Magdaléna
Establishment of voluntary approaches in the OECD and EU represented one of the most striking environmental developments of the 1990s. The EU Eco-Management and Audit Scheme (EMAS, 1993) is a management instrument to improve environmental performance of organisations. The EU Ecolabel (1992) is a part of the EU sustainable consumption and production policy, which is also one of ten themes in the EU Sustainable Development Strategy. Usage of these voluntary schemes can affect the Resource productivity, which is a headline indicator in this theme, and ultimately lead to sustainable development. However, the positive effects in the EU countries take place with time lags after their introduction. The longer lags are typical of the EMAS. The aim of this Paper is to assess the usage of the voluntary instruments in the EU countries and to evaluate their contribution to sustainable development on the basis of examining their relations to resource productivity.

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