Acta Univ. Agric. Silvic. Mendelianae Brun. 2016, 64(6), 2141-2150 | DOI: 10.11118/actaun201664062141

Factors Affecting Development of Rural Areas in the Czech Republic: a Literature Review

Jakub Straka, Marcela Tuzová
Department of Marketing and Trade, Faculty of Business and Economics, Mendel University in Brno, Zemědělská 1, 613 00 Brno, Czech Republic

Rural development is a topic that is frequently discussed, but there is no consensus on how to measure it. Various criteria exist such as economic, social, cultural or environmental, which can be used to assess rural development. Therefore the main question addressed in this paper is to identify what factors and indicators are suitable for scrutinizing development of rural areas under the conditions of the Czech Republic. For this purpose, articles focused on Czech rural regions were analysed. Fourteen most frequently used indicators were identified based on the comprehensive analysis of the selected Czech studies.

Keywords: rural areas, rural development, regional development, factors of rural development, indicators of rural development
Grants and funding:

This article is the result of the project titled "Factors determining the decision of SMEs operate in the rural areas of the Czech Republic" funded from the resources of IGA PEF MENDELU in Brno.

Prepublished online: December 21, 2016; Published: January 1, 2017  Show citation

ACS AIP APA ASA Harvard Chicago IEEE ISO690 MLA NLM Turabian Vancouver
Straka, J., & Tuzová, M. (2016). Factors Affecting Development of Rural Areas in the Czech Republic: a Literature Review. Acta Universitatis Agriculturae et Silviculturae Mendelianae Brunensis, 64(6), 2141-2150. doi: 10.11118/actaun201664062141
Share...
Download citation
  • BibTeX (.bib)
  • Bookends (.ris)
  • EasyBib (.ris)
  • EndNote (.enw)
  • EndNote 8 (.xml)
  • ISI WoS (.isi)
  • Medlars (.medlars)
  • Mendeley (.ris)
  • MODS (.xml)
  • Papers (.ris)
  • RefWorks (.txt)
  • RefManager (.ris)
  • RIS (.ris)
  • MS Word (.xml)
  • Zotero (.ris)
    • Open full article

    References

    1. ANRÍQUEZ, G., and STAMOULIS, K. 2007. Rural Development and Poverty Reduction: Is Agriculture Still the Key? Agricultural Development Economics Dvision (ESA), 7: 1-39.
    2. BERNARD, J. 2011. Endogenní rozvojové potenciály malých venkovských obcí - obtížné hledání a měření jejich vlivu. Czech Sociological Review, 47(4): 745-775. Go to original source...
    3. BERNARD, J. 2012. Prostorové vzorce rozvinutosti venkovských obcí česka. Geografie, 117(1): 72-94. Go to original source...
    4. BIBBY, P. 2013. Urban and Rural Area Definitions for Policy Purposes in England and Wales: Methodology (v1.0). Government Statistical Service - GSS. 36.
    5. BINEK, J., et al. 2007. Venkovský prostor a jeho oživení. Brno: Georgetown. 137.
    6. BLAŽEK, J. 1999. Regional Patterns of Adaptability to Global and Transformation Process in the Czech Republic. AUComeniana-Geographicala, 37: 61-70.
    7. BLAŽEK, B. 2004. Venkovy: anamnéza, diagnóza, terapie. Brno: ERA. 184.
    8. BONCINELLI, F., et al. 2015. The determinants of quality of life in rural areas from a geographic perspective: The case of Tuscany. Review of Urban & Regional Development Studies, 27(2): 104-117. DOI: 10.1111/rurd.12035 Go to original source...
    9. BULDERBERGA, Z. 2015. Rural and urban municipalities in the regions of Latvia - development tendencies and challenges. Economic Science for Rural Development, 154.
    10. CASCHILI, S., De MONTIS, A., and TROGU, D. 2015. Accessibility and rurality indicators for regional development. Computers, Environment and Urban Systems, 49: 98-114. DOI: 10.1016/j.compenvurbsys.2014.05.005 Go to original source...
    11. CHAMBERS, R. 2013. Rural Development: Putting the Last First. New York: Routledge. Go to original source...
    12. CHROMÝ, P., JANČÁK, V., MARADA, M., and HAVLÍČEK, T. 2011. Rural Areas - Living Space: Regional Differences in the Perceptions of Representatives of Rural Municipalities in Czechia Regarding Rural Areas. Geografie, 116: 23-45. Go to original source...
    13. CLARK, J. R. A., et al. 1997. Conceptualising the evolution of the European Union's agri environment policy: a discourse approach. Environment and Planning, 29: 1968-1885. Go to original source...
    14. DOSTÁL, P., and HAMPL, M. 2002. Regional Development in the Czech Republic: Specific and General Tendencies, In Domański, R. (ed.), Cities and Regions in an Enlarging European Union, Committee for Space Economy and Regional Planning. 129-149.
    15. EUROSTAT. 2015. Urban-rural typology. [Online]. Available at: http://goo.gl/nJY2Zv. [Accessed: 2015, February 19].
    16. GRGIĆ, I., et al. 2010. Quality of life in rural areas of Croatia: To stay or to leave? African Journal of Agricultural Research, 5(8): 653-660.
    17. HAMPL, M. 2005. Geografická organizace společnosti v České republice: transformační procesy a jejich obecný kontext. Praha: Přírodovědecká fakulta Univerzity Karlovy. 147.
    18. HLAVSA, T. 2010. The possibilities of complex assessment of the development and categorization of rural areas. Acta Universitatis Agriculturae et Silviculturae Mendelianae Brunensis, 58(6): 151-160. DOI: 10.11118/actaun201058060151 Go to original source...
    19. HRABÁNKOVÁ, M., and TRNKOVÁ, V. 1996. Hodnocení území z pozice agrární regionální politiky a rozvoje venkova. Praha: Výzkumný ústav zemědělské ekonomiky.
    20. JANČÁK, V. 2003. Geografie zemědělství a rurální geografie: základní pojmy a metodické přístupy jejich výzkumu v období transformace. In: JANČÁK, V., CHROMÝ, P., and MARADA, M. (eds.): Geografie na cestách poznání. Praha: Univerzita Karlova v Praze. 166-176.
    21. KOVÁRNÍK, J. 2010. Regional Development in Hradec Králové Region. Communication and Management in Technological Innovation and Academic Globalization, 52-56.
    22. MADU, I. A. 2007. The Underlying Factors of Rural Development Patterns in the Nsukka Region of Southeastern Nigeria. Journal of Rural and Community Development, 2: 110-122.
    23. MANKIW, N. G. 2000. Principles of economics. Prague: Grada Publishing.
    24. MARTINČÍK, D. 2008. Ekonomicko-sociální úroveň krajů - komplexní srovnávací analýza. Ekonomie, 11(1): 14-25.
    25. MARTINČÍK, D., and ŠLEHOFEROVÁ, M. 2014. Competitiveness and convergence of Czech regions: Persistence of discrepancies. Ekonomie, 17(2): 14-33. Go to original source...
    26. MASCARENHAS, A., et al. 2010. The role of common local indicators in regional sustainability assessment. Ecological indicators, 10: 646-656. DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolind.2009.11.003 Go to original source...
    27. MATOUŠKOVÁ, K. 2011. Nová typologie městských a venkovských regionů NUTS 3 podle Evropské komise. [Online]. Available at: http://www.dvs.cz/clanek.asp?id=6485296. [Acessed: 2015, December 19].
    28. MICHALEK, J., and ZARNEKOW, N. 2012. Application of the rural development index to analysis of rural regions in Poland and Slovakia. Social indicators research, 105(1): 1-37. DOI: 10.1007/s11205-010-9765-6 Go to original source...
    29. MOSELEY, M. 2003. Rural Development: Principles and Practice. London: SAGE. Go to original source...
    30. PERLÍN, R., KUČEROVÁ, S., and KUČERA, Z. 2010. A Typology of Rural Space in Czechia according to its Potential for Development. Geografie, 115(2): 161-187. Go to original source...
    31. POSPĚCH, P., DELÍN, M., and SPĚŠNÁ, D. 2009. Quality of life in Czech rural areas. Agricultural Economics, 55(6): 284-295. Go to original source...
    32. RAMOS, T. B. 2009. Development of regional sustainability indicators and the role of academia in this process: the Portuguese practice. Journal of Cleaner Production, 17(12): 1101-1115. DOI: 10.1016/j.jclepro.2009.02.024 Go to original source...
    33. SÁNCHEZ-ZAMORA, P., GALLARDO-COBOS, R., and CENA-DELGADO, F. 2014. Rural areas face the economic crisis: Analyzing the determinants of successful territorial dynamics. Journal of Rural Studies, 35: 11-25. DOI: 10.1016/j.jrurstud.2014.03.007 Go to original source...
    34. SPELLERBERG, A., HUSCHKA, D., and HABICH, R. 2007. Quality of life in rural areas: processes of divergence and convergence. Social indicators research, 83(2): 283-307. DOI: 10.1007/s11205-006-9057-3 Go to original source...
    35. SIMKOVÁ, E. 2008. The sustainable development of rural areas and the role of rural tourism. Ekonomie, 11(1): 26-32.
    36. United States Department of Agriculture - USDA. 2006. Rural development. [Online]. Available at http://goo.gl/iwFBDw. [Accessed: 2015, December 10].
    37. VAISHAR, A., and ZAPLETALOVÁ, J. 2009. Sustainable development of rural microregions in the Czech borderland. Moravian Geographical Reports, 17(4): 34-43.
    38. VAN ZEIJL-ROZEMA, A., and MARTENS, P. 2010. An adaptive indicator framework for monitoring regional sustainable development: a case study of the INSURE project in Limburg, The Netherlands. Sustainability: Science, Practice, & Policy, 6(1): 6-17. Go to original source...
    39. YILMAZ, B., et al. 2010. Factors affecting rural development in turkey: Bartin case study. Forest Policy and Economics, 12(4): 239-249. DOI: 10.1016/j.forpol.2010.02.003 Go to original source...
    40. Zákon o obcích č. 128/2000 Sb.
    41. ŽIVĚLOVÁ, I., and JÁNSKÝ, J. 2008. Analysis of life quality development in the administrative districts of South Moravia. Agricultural Economics, 54(9): 431-439. Go to original source...

    This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License (CC BY NC ND 4.0), which permits non-comercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original publication is properly cited. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.


    Return to the content