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Success Factors and Barriers for Climate Protection Projects in the Selected Czech Cities
Hejralová, Eva ; Rynda, Ivan (advisor) ; Sutlovičová, Klára (referee)
Cities are important actors in global climate protection. Almost 80% of global CO2 emissions are produced in urban areas. At the same time cities are in a good position to bring out innovative solutions. Local initiatives in the Czech Republic often take an implicit form: they don't aim directly at reducing greenhouse gas emissions. This paper analyses nine projects in the building sector, which have been implemented by Czech cities. It looks for factors that have contributed to the initiation of studied projects and facilitated or inhibited its implementation. Factors have been gathered throughout semi-structured interviews. The research have revealed two relevant barriers and twelve success factors, which have been classified according to the thematic categories: "Economics," "Livability," "Politics," "Institutions," and "Information." Most of them concern the category "Information," while none of them concerns the category "Livability." The research outcomes can serve as an inspiration for other cities and also for actors shaping conditions for local climate protection, in particular NGOs and central government.
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An Analysis of the efficiency of local authorities' budgets - local and regional level of Ústecký region
Hellebrandová, Lenka ; Tomeš, Jiří (advisor) ; Opluštilová, Irena (referee)
The aim of the diploma thesis is to evaluate the efficiency of local governance in selected municipalities in the Ústecký region based on analysis of the use of finance. The theoretical part is devoted to the issues of public administration, governance and local budgeting with emphasis on the possibilities of evaluating the efficiency. The research focuses on the analysis of current and capital expenditure on development activities and solving local and regional problems - unemployment and social exclusion - for the period 2002 - 2012. Further research focuses on the use of EU funds. It was able to demonstrate the existence of significant differences in the efficiency of governance on the example of surveyed municipalities. Most of the local governments support short-term projects, whose benefits for local development are minimal, instead of investing in development and problem solving. Keywords: local authorities, selfgovernment, budget, structural funds, efficiency
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Legal regulation of air pollution on municipal level
Dvorská, Michaela ; Sobotka, Michal (advisor) ; Žákovská, Karolina (referee)
The thesis deals with the legal regulation of air protection on the municipal level. It is focused on providing an overview of legal instruments which are available on the municipal level, as well as the evaluation of their sufficiency and efficiency and point out the most significant instruments and some shortcomings of recent legislation. Some chosen instruments embodied in Czech law are compared with relevant German regulation. Also some specific, arguable constitutional aspects are taken in consideration and evaluated. The thesis provides a comparison of the old and the new Act on the Protection of Air at the field of interest.
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Success Factors and Barriers for Climate Protection Projects in the Selected Czech Cities
Hejralová, Eva ; Rynda, Ivan (advisor) ; Sutlovičová, Klára (referee)
Cities are important actors in global climate protection. Almost 80% of global CO2 emissions are produced in urban areas. At the same time cities are in a good position to bring out innovative solutions. Local initiatives in the Czech Republic often take an implicit form: they don't aim directly at reducing greenhouse gas emissions. This paper analyses nine projects in the building sector, which have been implemented by Czech cities. It looks for factors that have contributed to the initiation of studied projects and facilitated or inhibited its implementation. Factors have been gathered throughout semi-structured interviews. The research have revealed two relevant barriers and twelve success factors, which have been classified according to the thematic categories: "Economics," "Livability," "Politics," "Institutions," and "Information." Most of them concern the category "Information," while none of them concerns the category "Livability." The research outcomes can serve as an inspiration for other cities and also for actors shaping conditions for local climate protection, in particular NGOs and central government.
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Romany Experience in Communicating with Local Authorities
Linková, Michaela ; Matoušek, Oldřich (advisor) ; Víšek, Petr (referee)
Bachelor thesis "Romany Experience in Communicating with Local Authorities" deals with going of communication among Romanies and local authorities based on statements of both sides. Thesis tries to define repetitive dysfunction characteristics of the communication and clarify their origin taking in account intercultural differences among individual participants. On the theoretical base, the thesis deals with creation and substantiality of the Romany identity and living conditions of Romanies in connection with discrimination and its effects. Last but not least the thesis tries to find out how significant the impact of Romany social exclusion and resulting way of living can be on majority non/acceptance.
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Comparative analysis of local air quality management in the Czech Republic and in the UK
Kostelecká, Lenka ; Vojáček, Ondřej (advisor) ; Jílková, Jiřina (referee)
The purpose of this thesis is to compare two systems of local air quality management - in the United Kingdom and the Czech Republic. United Kingdom has a lot of experience thanks to its long-time history of environmental protection. The system is considered to be successful as they already managed to solve many air quality problems. The Czech Republic has started with air quality management 20 years ago and its results are not satisfactory, its air quality in the new century is getting worse or is stagnating. In the first part of the thesis, two systems of air quality management are compared according to the law regulations in each country and also according to the ministry of the environment's guidance. In the second part of the thesis two program documents are compared -- one from the Greater Manchester metropolitan county and one from Moravian-Silesian region. The analysis points out the fact that British system of air quality management is more efficient, it takes more note of regional dimension of problems and it also cooperates more with stakeholders. At the end of thesis recommendations for Czech system of air quality management are proposed based on previous analysis.
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The local policy on municipality scale
Vroblová, Petra ; Lisa, Aleš (advisor) ; Chramosta, Pavel (referee)
The subject of the bachelor thesis is the analysis of the local policy in relation to funds of the European Union. The thesis consists of two parts. The first one provides an overview of contemporary European funds and operational programmes within the scope of which the subjects can require European grants. The second one applies theoretical knowledge to the three projects implemented in Uherský Brod. The goal of this thesis is the analysis of partial interests in the process of European financial resources allocation in terms of the local policy.
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