Papers by Bohumil Frantal
Focusing on coal energy from a geographical perspective, the unintended regional consequences of ... more Focusing on coal energy from a geographical perspective, the unintended regional consequences of coal mining and combustion in the Czech Republic are discussed and analysed in terms of the environmental injustice and resource curse theories. The explorative case study attempts to identify significant associations between the spatially uneven distribution of coal power plants and the environmental and socioeconomic characteristics and development trends of affected areas. The findings indicate that the coal industries have contributed to slightly above average incomes and pensions, and have provided households with some technical services such as district heating. However, these positive effects have come at high environmental and health costs paid by the local populations. Above average rates of unemployment, homelessness and crime indicate that the benefits have been unevenly distributed economically. A higher proportion of uneducated people and ethnic minorities
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Po roce 1990 dochazelo v Ceske republice k výrazným socialnim, ekonomickým a kulturnim proměnam, ... more Po roce 1990 dochazelo v Ceske republice k výrazným socialnim, ekonomickým a kulturnim proměnam, ktere byly a jsou reflektovany v životě ceske populace. Ke složitosti dynamiky casoprostorových pohybů přispivaji jak individualni motivace a zajmy, osobni socio-demograficke charakteristiky, tak i kulturni, politicke, ekonomicke a technologicke faktory. Měni se take intenzita a směr vzajemných vazeb mezi cleny různých skupin obyvatel (populacni segmenty) v souvislosti e jejich dennimi aktivitami. Výsledkem je vnitřni prostorova diferenciace spadových oblasti (zazemi) v ramci urbannich regionů.
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Moravian Geographical Reports, 2020
In this year, 2020, the Covid-19 pandemic has imposed new challenges for most human activities. T... more In this year, 2020, the Covid-19 pandemic has imposed new challenges for most human activities. Time-geography is a theoretical approach with great potential for analysing the consequences of the new disease and other disturbances, and this article aims at identifying possible developments of interest for the approach in the post-Covid era. The article addresses challenges that emerge for time-geographic research from the perspective of massive changes in human behaviour, regarding time-space activity patterns, caused by the globally diffusing disease. The implications of the pandemic are discussed with respect to four areas: (i) time-geographic techniques; (ii) activities and rhythms; (iii) activity spaces; and (iv) social issues and perceptions. The time-geographic concepts to be scrutinised are constraints, virtual time space and bundles, and stations and paths. In addition, the article introduces this Special Issue of the Moravian Geographical Reports on ‘Current issues, methods...
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Czech Sociological Review, 2012
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Cities, 2018
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Rendiconti Lincei, 2017
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Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, 2017
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Journal of Environmental Management, 2016
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Transylvanian Review of Administrative Sciences, Mar 30, 2014
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Geographia Technica, 2012
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Journal of Cleaner Production, 2016
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Transylvanian Review of Administrative Sciences
The paper presents the results of an international comparative survey of stakeholders from four E... more The paper presents the results of an international comparative survey of stakeholders from four European countries (the Czech Republic, Germany, Poland and Romania). The aim was to identify and classify the 'success factors' of brownfields regeneration and to detect significant convergences and divergences concerning the drivers and barriers of regeneration processes in different geographical and institutional contexts. The existence of ecological burden or site contamination , overall regeneration costs and clarified ownership relations are considered the most important factors of regeneration internationally. Especially in Romania but also in Poland, the factors at national level (legislation, incentives, and foreign direct investments) are perceived to be more influential than in the Czech Republic and Germany, where a stronger emphasis is put on the location factors (whether a brownfield is located in rural, urban or inner city area) and transport links. Physical attribu...
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The article deals with the issue of spatio-temporal human behaviour in the scope of the social sc... more The article deals with the issue of spatio-temporal human behaviour in the scope of the social sciences with increased attention to human geography. It endeavours to present possible approaches to the study of human behaviour in the geographical and social environment and the limits and constraints that affect behaviour. The article is inspired by the works of Swedish geographers, who were the fi rst to introduce the time-dimension into geographical research, thus creating a four-dimensional framework for the research of behavioural geographical phenomena. The /authors’ line of argument starts with the fundamental theoretical concepts and methodological tools of time-geography. Following the presentation of the theoretical basis, the authors document and develop a critical discussion of its defi ciencies and how the discipline has tackled them. The struggle to rehabilitate time-geography by its proponents emerged with the renaissance of the discipline and the development of new appl...
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Land Use Policy, 2015
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Moravian Geographical Reports, 2014
Focusing on coal energy from a geographical perspective, the unintended regional consequences of ... more Focusing on coal energy from a geographical perspective, the unintended regional consequences of coal mining and combustion in the Czech Republic are discussed and analysed in terms of the environmental injustice and resource curse theories. The explorative case study attempts to identify significant associations between the spatially uneven distribution of coal power plants and the environmental and socioeconomic characteristics and development trends of affected areas. The findings indicate that the coal industries have contributed to slightly above average incomes and pensions, and have provided households with some technical services such as district heating. However, these positive effects have come at high environmental and health costs paid by the local populations. Above average rates of unemployment, homelessness and crime indicate that the benefits have been unevenly distributed economically. A higher proportion of uneducated people and ethnic minorities in affected distri...
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17. mezinárodní kolokvium o regionálních vědách. Sborník příspěvků. 17th International Colloquium on Regional sciences. Conference Proceedings., 2014
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Cities, 2015
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This TIMBRE project deliverable report (full title: “Results of demonstration studies, outreach m... more This TIMBRE project deliverable report (full title: “Results of demonstration studies, outreach material (brochure, extended documentation, online presentation, cartographic outputs); Targeted dissemination of the outcomes and public relations (PR) by providing applicable brochures, documentations, websites and cartographic outputs for the end users”) describes the process of testing and tailoring the web-based prioritization tool for the user-friendly assessment and classification of brownfield sites, which is available at the following internet address http://www.timbre-project.eu/prioritization-tool.html This report, which is based on efforts both by WP3 partners and by many other different stakeholders outside the research consortium, is divided into the following chapters: - Methods of testing and tailoring the web-based prioritization tool – this chapter briefly describes the methods used for testing and tailoring the pilot version of the web-based prioritization tool - Result...
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Renewable sources of energies and its support have been recently experiencing wide public debate ... more Renewable sources of energies and its support have been recently experiencing wide public debate in the Czech Republic that varies from agreement to complete denial. Nevertheless support from national and EU sources is factor that heavily infl uenced dynamic development of this sector in last decade. Anaerobic digesti-on plants are one of options for production of renewable energies (biogas in this case) that have experienced next to solar plants the most important increase of its installed capacities. This contribution fi rst aims to analyse phenomenon of anaerobic digestion plants, its legal, strategic support, supporting fi nancial incentives, individual types of such plants, and secondly based on available statistical data to analyse spatial distribution of agricultural anaerobic digestion plants. On basis of comparison of data for increasing biogas production and declining agriculture in regions of the Czech Republic basic consequences are deduced. In context of spatial distrib...
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Ranging from global to regional scale, this book covers rural studies from different types of regions, on one hand from regions in the United Kingdom where the rural change debate has a long tradition, on the other hand views from the Central-European perspective, where the above-mentioned processes have appeared much more recently. Different experiences with the issues can be noticed from the post-socialist countryside, other ones from Alpine villages. But in general, the story of all covered rural spaces is interwoven by a red line idea of efforts to improve their societal, economic, and environmental qualities.