This study investigates the requirements for creating blue-green infrastructure (BGI) as an instrument of stormwater management, in which nature-based solutions in urban and suburban landscapes are preferred. This case study of stormwater retention ponds (SWRPs) in the suburban landscape surrounding&#...

Due to climate change, the question of thermal comfort in cities is becoming more important in Central Europe. The aim of the study is to design and experimentally verify the typology of outdoor areas of restaurants in terms of their thermal comfort factors, based on a&#x...

Savanna's life is a typical example when drought and fire determine the natural development dynamics of the landscape. This paper presents recommendations for the didactic transformation of the topic at school teaching. It points out possible cases of misconceptions among students.

The article acquaints the readers with the development of the Czech sugar industry in the period from 1945 to 1989. As it turned out, the political changes that took place after World War II had the greatest impact on the then prosperous economy and developed sugar i...

This paper is concentrated on the planning of urban green space in accordance with environmental trends of urban development. We demonstrate that the urban greenery is highly beneficial and thus from an economic point of view it is effective to care for it. It develops ne...

The article deals with the comparison of the two largest sugar beet producers in the Czech Republic and the USA. However, it is not only a comparison from the point of view of the size of its own production, but also from a historical, geographical and socio-economic...

A substantial part of the Brdy Highlands was used for military purposes for ninety years. After the termination of the Military Training Area Brdy on January 1, 2016, the utilization of this area has changed markedly, and gradual changes are also occurring in the surrounding&#...

The Euroregion Šumava-Bayerischer Wald/Unterer Inn-Mühlviertel is an example of the co-operation entity between “old” and “new” Europe, which was created in the first half of 1990´s. It is an example of a territory in Central Europe, where as a result of political influences m...

Innovations are key factor for developing of the regions and their competitiveness. There are significant regional discrepancies in the Pilsen region, with specific regions along the border with Bavaria. On one hand, there is economically strong core area around the Pilsen agglom...

The aim of case study of Pilsen is to assess what is the level of implementation of new ecohydrological management trends of cities in the Czech environment. There was used comparison with the development system of the concept „Water sensitive cities“ for the assessment...

Alongside France, Italy and Slovakia the Czech Republic belongs to the countries with the most fragmented municipal structure. The aim of this paper is to analyze the attitudes of representatives of the Czech municipalities to two ideal forms of consolidation of the structur...

The paper analysis and critically evaluates a practical application of city marketing. It results not only from the Czech, but also foreign experiences. It points out some discrepancies between expectations and a reality of city marketing, which have not been r...

The credibility of data measured by school meteorological stations Vantage Pro2™ is investigated in this paper. The subject of this study is to compare five meteorological stations in the city of Plzeň: Plzeň-Mikulka, Plzeň-Bolevec and Plzeň-city (CHMI) and school meteorological stations Van...

The paper deals with the planning culture in the Czech Republic. It deals mainly with strategic planning in urban development, which some referred to as "the new planning culture", and problems with its practical application. This paper draws empirical evidence mainly from the...

This paper is a review concentrated on the sustainable development of large-size protected areas in the context of strategic planning in the Czech Republic. We compare goals of strategic development documents for two model protected areas (The Landscape Protected Area Český les – n...

The contribution deals with the influence of the global economic crisis on the labour market in the district Plzeň-sever. Impacts of the crisis on the local labour market were depicted on the basis of time analysis (2004-2012) of labour market indicators and its comparison wit...

This paper evaluates the potential of geoparks for the regional marketing and geotourism development. We present qustions about the current state and development plan of geopraks in the Czech Republic. Small research demonstrates that geoparks project isn´t commonly known among ...

The aim of the paper is to make a professional public acquainted with basic approaches, principles and indicators on a base of which a conception of monitoring and evaluation system conception of the project Pilsen – European Capital of Culture 2015 was created. The...