Course Details

Regional economy and policy

Academic Year 2024/25

NVA073 course is part of 1 study plan

NPC-ARS / ARP Winter Semester 2nd year

Course Guarantor

Institute

Language of instruction

Czech

Credits

3 credits

Semester

winter

Forms and criteria of assessment

course-unit credit and examination

Offered to foreign students

Not to offer

Course on BUT site

Lecture

13 weeks, 2 hours/week, elective

Syllabus

1. Introduction to regional economy. Spatial economic systems. Theoretical approaches to their explanation.

2. Localization theories – agriculture (von Thünen), industry (Schäffle, Fischer, Weber).

3. Localization theories of the 1920s and 1950s.

4. Agglomeration effects, spatial concentration or dispersion.

5. Regions and regionalization, homogeneous and heterogeneous regions.

6. Regional dimensions of the market of factors of production – job market, immovable property market.

7. Regional development and growth theories – theory of polarized development, export base theory etc.

8. Economic level of regions – main influencing factors.

9. Evaluation of the economic level – microeconomic and macroeconomic, quantitative and qualitative indicators.

10. Regional policy – inter-regional differences, regional policy conception according to the main economic schools.

11. Regional policy in the Czech Republic – principles, tools, regions with concentrated support from the state.

12. Regional policy of the Czech Republic in the period 2007 – 2013, 2014-2020.

13. Regional development strategy of the Czech Republic and other regional policy documents of the Czech Republic.

Exercise

13 weeks, 1 hours/week, compulsory

Syllabus

1.Program of teaching, instruction and guidance, requirements for award a credit. S.W.O.T. analysis. Case Study SWOT analysis - field Position of the region and geographical conditions and the assignment of an individual project for this field.

2.Case Study SWOT analysis - field Socio-economic conditions and the assignment of an individual project for this field. Public presentation of the first part of analysis by each group.

3.Case Study SWOT analysis - field Transport and the assignment of an individual project for this field. Public presentation of the second part of analysis by each group.

4.Case Study SWOT analysis - field Infrastructure and the assignment of an individual project for this field. Public presentation of the third part of analysis by each group.

5.Case Study SWOT analysis - field Landscape and environment and the assignment of an individual project for this field. Public presentation of the fourth part of analysis by each group.

6.Case Study SWOT analysis – completion, correction. Public presentation of the fifth part of analysis by each group.

7.A comprehensive summary of the case study. Submission of complex swot analysis in both print and electronic versions. Credit.