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Reflection on Neighbourhood Evolution at a Pre-Fabricated Panel Building Area
Pfaff, Tomáš ; Čermák, Daniel (advisor) ; Říha, Martin (referee)
The master's thesis, framed as a sociological case study, aims it's interest at the theme of neighborhood evolution at a pre-fabricated panel building area. The subject of interest is the reflection of neighborhood evolution given by the original residents of the research locality. The research locality is represented by the most populated street in Hradec Králové, Edvarda Beneše boulevard, which drew considerable attention both of lay and academic public at the time of it's emergence due to unique architectonic and urbanistic design. The defined research problem is the question asking about current state and underwent changes of a neighborhood situated at specific environment of a block-of- flats area located in a contemporary city, specifically in the most populated area of Hradec Králové statutory city. Also three separate research questions were formulated. They ask specifically about the current state of the neighborhood, it's underwent changes during time and the role of it's physical a geographical situatedness. The aim of the thesis was to perform complex exploration of current state and evolution of the studied phenomenon, both in social and physical dimension. The thesis doesn't provide description of the current state and evolution only, but it also identifies local relevant factors...
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Greens with Diploma? Graduates from Social and Cultural Ecology FHS UK Prague
Jokešová, Martina ; Čermák, Daniel (advisor) ; Syrovátka, Miroslav (referee)
This thesis is about the graduates from the Social and Cultural Ecology program of College of Humanities, Charles University, Prague. The theoretical part discusses the subject of values and education from two points of view - in first case as content which is transferred in the educational process, in second it analyzes the result and how education is valued in society - both in postmodern and historical contexts. Section discussing graduate research topics, the evolution of tertiary education in the Czech Republic and the Social and Cultural ecology program is the joining idea between the theoretical and empirical parts of the thesis. The empirical part of the thesis contains survey data from graduates of the Social and Cultural Ecology program from Charles University. The survey targets issues associated with typical degree program progression, subsequent employment, retrospective evaluation of their studies and how they have affected their personal lives.
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Lifestyle, environmental values and factual behaviour during outdoor activities on example of cross-country skiing in the selected specially protected area (CHKO Žďárské vrchy)
Faltysová, Olga ; Čermák, Daniel (advisor) ; Vojtíšková, Kateřina (referee)
This diploma thesis deals with lifestyle, environmental values and attitudes of visitors to environmental protection while hiking in the selected specially protected area (CHKO Žďárské vrchy). The first part includes the theoretical information about lifestyle, environmental ethics and values, the following section focuses on environmental protection issues. Sustainable tourism and more detailed specification of the selected specially protected area (CHKO Žďárské vrchy) will also be discussed here. The second part involves a questionnaire survey uncovering the attitudes of visitors towards the environmental protection. The research questions are answered based on the evaluation of collected information. KEYWORDS Lifestyle, values, attitudes, environmental protection, sustainable tourism, Žďárské vrchy
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Geographical Aspects of Activities of Nongovernmental Organizations and Civic Initiatives in Czechia - Local and Regional Level in the Case of Liberec Region
Vogt, David ; Tomeš, Jiří (advisor) ; Čermák, Daniel (referee) ; Kopeček, Vincenc (referee)
This dissertation thesis is trying to find and apply a political-geographical approach to the study of political activities of the civil society. At first, it searches it theoretically, for example on the bases of theories of democracy, relations among the state and civil society, social capital etc. It stresses an importance of an active role of a citizen as an actor in liberal democracy, in a complex society, but also a conflictful character or forms of a part of civil society, which, by its public control, finally contributes to strengthening and maintaining of democracy. It also admits a possible risk of conflict with representative democracy. The thesis tends towards those approaches which investigate the relationship of the civil society with the state and the commercial sphere, in which conflicts occur in the (public) space and about the space. Thereafter, the issue is studied empirically on the example of local and regional level in the Liberec Region, where impacts of a hierarchical level, a distance from the centre, the territory resettled after the Second World War and other possible geographical influencing factors. As the data source about the organisations and activities of the civil society the thesis uses namely these three items: (i) data from the Register of Economical Subjects...
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Origin and historical evolution of cycling discipline freestyle BMX
Čermák, Daniel ; Vomáčko, Ladislav (advisor) ; Šafránek, Jiří (referee)
Title: Origin and historical evolution of cycling discipline freestyle BMX Objectives: The aim of thesis is to devise comprehensive and structured work, which focused on the origin and historical evolution of cycling disciplines freestyle BMX. On the basis of available resources, particularly printed publications and internet resources involved in freestyle BMX, is created by a sequence of major events in the Czech Republic and in the world, which caused the origin and historical evolution of the discipline itself. Methods: At first will be used an analysis of all available information about cycling discipline freestyle BMX. It will be also used the methods used to process historical works. Results: It was found that first appearance of BMX was in the Netherlands in 1956. The official origin in the 60s of the 20th century is associated with the area of California in the USA. BMX has its roots in motocross, from which is also derived the name of BMX. The cycling sport BMX develops to independent cycling discipline freestyle BMX a few years later. Freestyle BMX belongs to extreme sports. Historical evolution of freestyle BMX is associated mainly with the California area. Freestyle BMX was expanding in the 80s of the 20th century to the Europe. Nowadays freestyle BMX is dynamically evolving worldwide....
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Trust in Political Institutions in the Czech Republic
Čermák, Daniel ; Kostelecký, Tomáš (advisor) ; Sedláčková, Markéta (referee) ; Müller, Karel (referee)
The aim of the PhD dissertation is to research political trust, specifically to describe trends in political trust and to identify factors which are related to reported trust. Political trust is vertical trust oriented to selected political institutions which are grounded in the Constitution of the Czech Republic. Following political institutions are analyzed in this study: the Government of the Czech Republic, the Chamber of Deputies, the Senate, regional councils and municipal councils. Life-time learning model proposed by Mishler and Rose, which combines cultural and institutional approaches to explanation of trust in political institutions, is used as a theoretical framework in this study. All conducted analyses make use of data from surveys carried out by CVVM and other departments of the Institute of Sociology of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic. The key finding of the study is the fact that the level of trust in political institutions is mainly determined by factors associated with 1) institutional performance which is related to political situation and the perception of own economic situation or the economic situation of the state; 2) party preferences (presence of so called "the winner effect"). The level of trust in political institutions on national, regional, and local...
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Communication of municipality with citizens. Case study at municipal part Prague 4
Ramíková, Hana ; Čermák, Daniel (advisor) ; Vávra, Martin (referee)
This graduation thesis talks about the communication of citizens and municipality at Prague 4. It not only desribes the means of communication and information sharing, but tries to evaluate it as well. In the theoretical part it presents the civil sector as a part of life in society and it shows how does it cooperate with the two other regulators of social life - state and market. There is also shortly presented history of civil sector in Czech countries. In the second part there are presented main means of communication and information providing that are used at a municipality of Prague 4, then it presents the results of public research and interviews with representatives of non-profit organizations working at Prague 4. It also shows how people use institution of complaints and petitions and the possibilities given by Act 106/1999 Coll., on Free Access to Information. In the final part we can see the evaluation of the situation on the field of communication and information and gives also some recommendations how to make the situation even better.
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Equine tourism in National Park České Švýcarsko and prague's agglomeration
Krejčová, Linda ; Čermák, Daniel (advisor) ; Thöndlová, Gabriela (referee)
Tato diplomová práce je studií, kvalitativním výzkumem, který má za cíl zjistit, zda ve vybraných dvou oblastech, chráněném a nechráněném území, funguje jezdecká turistika a do jaké míry odpovídá konceptu šetrné turistiky. Vzhledem k tomu, že jezdecká turistika je velmi mladý rozvíjející se druh sportovní aktivity, věnuje se práce i zodpovězení otázek, jaké má v dané oblasti jezdecká turistika podmínky a zda při jejím provozu nedochází k uživatelskému konfliktu na stezkách nebo jiným sporům. Důležité bylo i zjištění míry spolupráce jednotlivých aktérů, které tvoří komunikační síť. Pro realizaci výzkumu byla zvolena kvalitativní strategie sběru dat pomocí polostrukturovaných rozhovorů a analýza získaných dat prostřednictvím metody zakotvené teorie. Koncept tzv. měkké turistiky vychází z rešerše odborné literatury. Její znaky de facto apelují na dodržování zásad trvale udržitelného rozvoje, ze kterého tak nutně vychází teoretický rámec rozhovorů. Klíčová slova: jezdecká turistika, metoda zakotvené teorie, chráněná území, trvale udržitelný rozvoj, šetrná turistika, hipostezka, síť aktérů, komunikace, regionální politika, udržitelný cestovní ruch. Abstract My thesis is a qualitative research using inductive methods. Its aim is to create a theory about management of equine tourism in two selected areas,...
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Tourism and mechanism of its monitoring in Czechia
Ducháčková, Jana ; Melichar, Jan (advisor) ; Čermák, Daniel (referee)
The objective of this master's thesis is to examine a detailed summary of the present situation of visitor monitoring methods in large-scale protected areas in Czechia. Methods used in Czechia are introduced on 9 areas. The main research tools used were interviews with 8 key actors and a survey with the head managers of 4 national parks and 25 protected areas. The questionnaire survey was conducted in November and December 2011 and had 100 % return. This thesis presents comprehensive characteristics of the situation in Czechia including levels of monitoring methods. It seems that this study is the first of its kind which has been done in Czechia. Findings show that there is systematic quantitative visitor monitoring in Czech national parks, but that there is not in protected landscape areas. The majority of national park and protected area management do not have a standard certificated methodology for managing counting visitors. This means that their results cannot be compared. To promote better understanding of methods the text includes 22 examples of visitor counting done in chosen European countries and 9 examples from other non-European countries with the goal of summarizing which methods and technologies are available and suitable for use in Czechia. Finally, the evaluations of eight...
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Controversy about Šumava: Strengths and weaknesses of the ecological principle of consensus
Chomátová, Eliška ; Stöckelová, Tereza (advisor) ; Čermák, Daniel (referee)
The thesis is based on a qualitative research realized in summer 2008 in several municipalities in Šumava. Focus groups organized within this research aimed at the relationship of different stakeholders to the Šumava National Park and more generally to nature and environmentalist thoughts and actors. The research design and the data gathered are presented in the introduction. Then the theory of general principles of consensus is described, which serves as the main theoretical framework for the study of focus groups participants' arguments. Using particular arguments, I show that against the protection of nature as it is realized by Šumava National Park Authority, critical citizens build their arguments on values that are considered legitimate and important in Czech society. The next part of the thesis studies the ecological principle of consensus as a new general principle of consensus: I discuss the conditions for existence of such a principle, its form in the controversy about the management of Šumava and the implications its form can have, supporting broader acceptance of the principle or, on the contrary, its rejection. An important point there is the relationship between expertise and participation, which are, together with the concept of nature, main elements of the ecological principle of...
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