The thesis is dedicated to the ISAF's Provincial Reconstruction Teams in Afghanistan. The research focus of this study is the analysis of specific geographic factors related to location of selected reconstruction teams in Afghan provinces. Geographic factors affecting security consist of armed groups, warlords, ethno-cultural structure of population and terrain type of the areas examined. Structure, investments, prevailing priorities and effect of local area characteristics are analysed in connection with selected provincial reconstruction teams. The study aims to determine whether teams managed to stabilize the situation in their provinces and which geographic factors affected the safety of their activities.

Geographical aspects of soccer players' origin - football academies: Comparison of Czechia and Serbia Abstract The goal of this thesis is to identify football academies in Czechia and Serbia since 1993. That accomplishes through presenting theoretical approaches of sport geography, then documents the globalisation of sport and especially the diffusion of football in space and time. It submits also characteristics of the successful football academy and finds out positive economical effects, which are generated by production of professional football players. The thesis researches in analytical part not only regional divide of the football academies, which are identified based on the place of birth, first youth and professional clubs and transfer value of the individual players, but the influence of different factors on success of club in national league as well. Key words: geographical aspects, origin, football academies, transfers, economic profitability Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Submitted by Maike Costa (maiksebas@gmail.com) on 2016-08-01T11:43:11Z No. of bitstreams: 1 arquivo total.pdf: 2297571 bytes, checksum: 9dbeaf2335de60f6c4342a686327621a (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2016-08-01T11:43:11Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 arquivo total.pdf: 2297571 bytes, checksum: 9dbeaf2335de60f6c4342a686327621a (MD5) Previous issue date: 2015-10-14 / The motivation for this work is given from a teaching experience in the discipline Geography involving the use of different textual genres that were not initially produced for this specific area. In order to propose suggestions for pedagogical practice, we selected two texts of different genres - a song's lyric and a biblica narrative - analyzing them, focus sing on the relationship bet we en the textual content and geographical aspects, as per example, climate issues. Starting wi than explanation of some basic concepts of Text and textual genres: Kleiman (2011), Kock and Elias (2010), Marcuschi (2008) and Irandé (2009); Weal so have the important guidelines of the National Curriculum Parameters (NCPs) of Geography, as well as theorists of geographical science: Andrade and Sette, Lucci, Lacoste, Pontuschka, Visentini, Rabbit among others. In sequence, we present and analyze the selected texts, to finally get to the suggestions for the classroom. With this work, we can see that the geographical know ledge is necessary for understanding of these texts, and the study of such genres contributes to the consolidation of know ledge on Geography. This relationship bet ween the practice of reading and understanding of gender and learning of specific content in Geography should be explored by teachers, which will contribute to the training of students as readers. / A motivação para o presente trabalho se dá a partir de uma experiência docente na disciplina Geografia envolvendo o uso de diversos gêneros textuais que não foram, inicialmente, produzidos para esta área específica com turmas do ensino médio. Com o objetivo de propor sugestões para uma prática pedagógica, selecionamos dois textos de diferentes gêneros - letra de música e narrativa bíblica – e buscamos analisá-los, focando na relação entre o conteúdo textual e os aspectos geográficos, por meio da interdisciplinaridade, destacando os conhecimentos geográficos subjacentes usando como suporte para isso os PCN de geografia, como, por exemplo, as questões climáticas. Para tanto, partimos de uma explanação sobre alguns conceitos básicos sobre texto e gêneros textuais, pautados nas leituras de Kleiman (2011), Kock e Elias (2010), Marcuschi (2008) e Irandé (2009). Contamos ainda com as importantes orientações dos Parâmetros Curriculares Nacionais (PCNs) de Geografia, além de teóricos da ciência geográfica, como Andrade e Sette, Lucci, Lacoste, Lucci, Pontuschka, Visentini, Coelho entre outros. Em sequência, apresentamos e analisamos os textos selecionados, para, finalmente, chegarmos às sugestões para a sala de aula. Com este trabalho, podemos perceber que o conhecimento geográfico se faz necessário para a compreensão desses textos, bem como o estudo de tais gêneros contribui para a consolidação do conhecimento na área de Geografia. Essa relação entre a prática de leitura e compreensão de um gênero e a aprendizagem de um conteúdo específico em Geografia deve ser explorada pelos professores, o que contribuirá para a formação leitora dos alunos.

The diploma thesis deals with geographical aspect of an origin of ice hockey players in selected countries (Czechia, Finland, Slovakia, Sweden and Switzerland) The aim of the thesis is to find out how succesful is the training of professional players in these countries on municipal and club level and a consecutive identification of ice hockey hotbeds. The thesis is divided to the theoretical and the practical part. The theoretical part is focused on the geography of sport and the issue of ice hockey, its history, organization and spreading. The figures of the players, trained in the above mentioned countries, their wages in the NHL, the number of starts at the Olympics and points and the number of the highest league titles are the basis of the analytic part. The figures were used for correlation analysis and comparison. The results show that a territorial diversification of ice hockey players production appears in the most of the countries and the traditional hotbeds prevails, but new ones are developed.

The aim of this paper is to show what relation is between the distance and the transport price and which factors can contribute to the expected irregularity. Based on the real freight transport prices the paper is looking for and finding significant differences in the relative transport prices between chosen regions. It seems that the quality of the transport price is influenced by factors like the location of the target region within Europe and towards Czechia, within transportation routes and networks, its economic power and structure and possibly also by the mutual relations that the source and target regions have within the global supply chains. The quality of the transport connection between the regions is further compared with the connection that these regions have within the global city network. As was found out, these two kinds of connection do not have to necessarily be the same. A short questionnaire was taken among chosen transport experts to get the basis for a better interpretation of the paper's conclusions and also to get their opinion on the sense of the geographical research in the field of international transport and logistics. Keywords: international freight road transport, transport pricing, transport price, logistics, supply chains, geographical aspects of pricing