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Water retention: water balance of a model area
Kalianková, Kateřina ; Weiss, Tomáš (advisor) ; Vlček, Lukáš (referee)
Water retention in the landscape is a relatively broad topic and the are a number of measures that can be applied to achieve increased water retention. This thesis focuses on water reservoirs and nature- friendly measures in the form of revitalized watercourses. The aim of this work is based on a simplified calculation of the water balance in a model area to determine which of the retention measures is more appropriate for a given situation and conditions. The water balance is based mainly on the calculation of evapotranspiration using the FAO Penman-Monteith equation. The first part of the work contains a review of water balance and factors that affect it. The work also deals with selected retention measures and their functions during drought and flood events. The second part contains the calculation of evapotranspiration, determination of water balance, and its evaluation. From the view of the evaporation values, the presented calculations show the deep water reservoirs to be the most advantageous, in which evaporation in the model area is the lowest from all presented situations. The work also points out the importance of evapotranspiration as an element of water balance and recommends determining it for the initial approximation of the local situation during the planning of retention measures....
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Climate Policy Integration in the EU's Trade Agreements
Sochor, Jan ; Weiss, Tomáš (advisor) ; Černovská, Eliška (referee)
This master's thesis deals with climate policy integration in two European union's trade agreements, EU-Canada Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA) and EU-Japan Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA). Ambitions of EU's climate policy have grown in recent years. Therefore the EU needs to cooperate with other world countries to tackle the climate change now even more than ever before. One of the solutions for such a binding cooperation to fight climate change could be implemented through the EU trade policy. This master's thesis is therefore interested in climate policy integration concerning the policy coherence during the process of making trade agreements and also in climate policy aspects of the final form of the agreements. In the theoretical part, this thesis describes the academic debates of policy coherence, climate policy actors in the institutional framework of the EU and also the history of EU's climate policy. Research operationalises the academic concept of climate policy integration (CPI) and carries it out through analysisand comparison of official EU's institutional documents. In the final part, this master's thesis draws its conclusions mainly from comparison of EPA and CETA.
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Limits of europeanization: Case study of Georgian electoral reforms
Jeziorská, Kristýna ; Weiss, Tomáš (advisor) ; Kasáková, Zuzana (referee)
The diploma thesis is based on the phenomenon of Europeanization and its limits in third countries (with a focus on the European neighbourhood countries). It focuses on the influence of the European Union on the adopted electoral reforms in Georgia. It is processed in the form of diachronic comparison. Thanks to it, it will be possible to achieve an understanding of the dynamics of the changes and their development. According to the analysis of the current research of the limits of Europeanization in third countries, the main factors behind these limits have been identified. These were applied to the two pre-selected electoral reforms. It was monitored whether these factors were valid for the given reform, whether they were also valid for the second selected electoral reform over time, or whether these factors contribute to the overall failure of Europeanization in Georgia.
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Prison privatization in England and Wales
Borůvková, Tereza ; Weiss, Tomáš (advisor) ; Váška, Jan (referee)
The diploma thesis deals with the process of prison privatization in the United Kingdom particularly in England and Wales especially in the form of PFI deals, in which the private sector not only manages prison facility but also designs and constructs the buildings. Due to transfer of this kind of service we can look at the relationship between state and private provider trough the lenses of Principal-agent theory. This theory, in its purest form, is constituted of one principal and one agent to whom the performance of the service is transferred, part of the risks associated with it and also a certain decision-making power are transferred as well. According to the theory, the basic precondition for the relationship between the principal and the agent is a discrepancy in the goals of the actors and the agent's effort to act opportunistically at the expense of the performance of the service for the principal. In this sense, the thesis examines the decision from 2018 not to launch new PFI or its successor PF2 projects. In this scenario, England and Wales are the principal and the prison operators are the agents. The hypothesis of the thesis is that this decision not to launch new PFI projects is related to problematic aspects of the relationship between the principal and the agent and that the control...
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Intergovernmental Cooperation in Resolving the Eurozone Crisis
Nevola, Jan ; Havelka, Vít (advisor) ; Weiss, Tomáš (referee)
This bachelor thesis focuses on the topic of the Euro crisis intending to identify crisis- solving strategies. It considers the period between 2010 and 2012 during which several key measures were taken and new institutions were established to provide financial assistance to the Eurozone Member States. The work analyses the nature of these institutions and the decisions taken. The intention is to determine whether the steps that led to the protection of the Eurozone were predominantly intergovernmental-driven or whether the main drivers of the processes were supranational institutions. The introductory chapters explain the causes of the crisis, its institutional framework and highlight several views on solving the crisis as presented in the research of other authors. Furthermore, they introduce the theoretical-analytical framework based on the theories of intergovernmentalism, respectively liberal intergovernmentalism and neofunctionalism. The analytical part of the work, first, specifies the research methodology. Then, the discussion presents the findings of the research and confronts them with the research of other authors who analyzed this issue. The conclusion summarizes the work and draws on the results of the analysis to answer the research question that is defined in the introduction.
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EU and Czech Countermeasures Against Disinformation
Fišer, Jakub ; Weiss, Tomáš (advisor) ; Kadlecová, Lucie (referee)
This Bachelor's thesis deals with the development of countermeasures against disinformation in the Czech Republic and at the level of the European Union. Drawing upon the concept of Europeanisation, it aims to analyse the influence the two levels have on each other. Europeanisation has been widely used in the last two decades, and although it still lacks a universally valid definition, it is nowadays mainly regarded as a concept explaining the relationship between the European Union and its member states, considering it a process consisting of three interconnected dimensions: downloading (the influence of the EU on Member States), uploading (the influence of Member States on the EU), and cross-loading (the influence Member States have on each other). The chosen empirical case is rather atypical for research on Europeanisation, since most of it usually focuses on the adaptation of norms and institutions pre-existing at the European level. By doing so, this thesis aims to not only supplement the current research on Europeanisation but to problematise it as well. Taking the form of a comparative case study, the thesis focuses particularly on how the issue of disinformation found its way to the Czech and European political agenda. The main sources for the research are Czech and European policy documents dealing...
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EU Foreign Policy Toward Venezuela, 2017-2018: A Study on the Potential Development of Human Rights in EU Foreign Policy
Luber, Jordan ; Mach, Zdzisław (advisor) ; Weiss, Tomáš (referee)
European Union (EU) foreign policy generally has not been hailed as a great success for the integration project. On one hand, trade deals and other economic aspects of foreign policy have demonstrated EU external power and internal competence. Yet when it comes to political issues in international affairs, the EU is often unable to effectively influence situations or even vaguely behave like the major global actor which many, including EU policymakers themselves, hope and expect it to be. Outside of the wider European region and its neighbors, and on human rights issues, EU foreign policy is especially limited in both effect and effort. However, these patterns were broken when it comes to the EU's response to the Venezuela Crisis (2017-present), a severe and explosive human rights crisis. In early 2019, the EU almost immediately recognized the democratically-elected legislature's assumption of power as the democratic interim government against the executive's de facto and previously de jure authoritarian regime. For the EU, this action and the sum of its policy toward the Venezuela Crisis since January 2019 are unprecedentedly forceful and bold. How did the EU get to this point? To answer this question, this paper examines public EU foreign policy toward Venezuela in the first two years of the crisis-2017...
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