The thesis is devoted to the problems of funding cultural heritage, cultural institutions and activities, including leisure activities in the Union of villages of the microregion Třemšín with a special focus on the city Rožmitál pod Třemšínem. It analyses funding resources and possibilities for future development in this area. The work is divided into two parts, theoretical and practical. The theoretical part defines the basic concepts related to culture and its financing. Following that it outlines the funding structure of the thematic programs in the area of culture and leisure activities. Based on the analysis of the region from a cultural point of view, the practical part offers specific proposals determining which direction the local government and other local parties should achieve more efficient development of the region. The conclusion of the work is formed by a possible proposal for a specific project, which would support the cultural and leisure attraction of the city of Rožmitál pod Třemšínem.

The presented thesis deals with the development of microregion Rakovnicko with regard to the area of tourism. The main objective of the study was to find out what kind of options has the surveyed region for supporting business activities in the field of tourism. The operational objective was to describe the limits of business development in this area. The objectives were obtained through analysis of the state of particular business support tools. The analysis covered the past and the current state of support tools, and the final conclusion was drawn within each of them.

The Diploma Thesis deals with processing a business plan for the reconstruction of a family house into a guest-house in the micro-region Rožnovsko in a town called Zubří. The theoretical part includes investment decisions, a business plan, methods of economic evaluation of investments and the concept of tourism. The practical part contains an analysis of current status, a description of the guest-house and its surroundings, the impact of the crisis on accommodation. The proposal part quantifies the cost of the project, predicts sales and an average price for accommodation. The Thesis also evaluates the efficiency of investments through the use of net present value and payback period.

This master thesis deals development of geographical names, cartographic symbols and on thematically maps documents changes of land use in microregion Lomnicko. Basis for its elaboration were analog and digital topographical and thematically maps from various sources and different time of periods. A part of the thesis are characteristics of used maps documents and conditions of their obtaining. Development of names and cartographic symbols is documented by tables and charts.

n accordance with Council Directive 1999/31/EC implemented by Regulation number 294/2005 Sb., Czech Republic has agreed to reduce landfilling of biodegradable material contained in mixed municipal waste (BDMW) by 50 % in comparison with 1995 starting January 1, 2013. This causes several problems to municipalities as the issue of mixed municipal waste (MMW) treatment is not handled at any level of state administration. PhD thesis tackles the question which level of state administration - national, regional, or microregional or municipal - should be responsible for waste treatment and whether it is economical and efficient, or not.

The subject of this thesis is to analyze and evaluate the placement of buildings under the Building Act in the microregion Litovelsko. The theoretical part will include individual division of the Construction Act, including zoning classification. In will be done analysis of specific examples and to the family house in the village Ješov, then there will be discussed at the appropriate location of the building plot in the village Hradečná and the last example is the location of the construction site in dilapidated buildings in the village Kovářov. Finally, the work will include evaluation of appropriate solutions to the location of buildings.

This diploma thesis deals with election campaigns in small municipalities in the context of the Czech Republic, respectively nine municipalities of Microregion of Jemnice, which were selected as a research sample. The work focuses mainly on the analysis of whether election campaigns in these municipalities can be met at all, or what form and character of they have. The subject of the research is also the question if we can meet a certain form of election campaign in those small municipalities where there are disputes about the development of the municipality. This qualitative case study mainly uses the deductive methodological approach, where the basic theoretical approaches and concepts of the researched issue are introduced, from which the specific goals related to the research of campaigns in the Czech municipal environment are proceeded. The analytical part of the thesis is based on an inquiry in selected municipalities of the mentioned microregion, where the semi-structured interviews with successful and unsuccessful candidates from the municipal elections last year, ie. 2018, were used primarily for data collection, analysis of public and virtual documents, community websites or newspaper and municipal newsletters, was used as well. The final part of the thesis then summarizes the partial...

Agriculture in Slovakia has historically gone through many stages of development. In the past, it was the main livelihood strategy for rural populations, where it reinforced social bonds and cooperation. Socialistic collectivization and the creation of Common agricultural cooperatives (JRDs) represented a violent transition that did not respect the historical and cultural traditions and their development. They resulted in rural populations losing their connection with the soil and marked the beginning of the deterioration of Slovak agriculture and depopulation of rural areas. JRDs were thus a massive blow for the character of Slovak countryside. Natural and climate conditions had been until that time the main factors shaping the architecture, which was therefore specific to every region. After JRDs’ arrival, outbuildings of family farms were slowly replaced with uniform large-scale structures. With the scale of these buildings not matching the surrounding environment and context, the aesthetic and residential value of rural areas was distorted. After the fall of the communist regime in Czechoslovakia and the incipient restitutions that followed, the intended revival of bonds between people and their soil never materialized. “Cooperatives” became companies struggling for survival in the now open market and farmers remained their employees. The importance of the countryside has risen in terms of its residential value, but severely deteriorated in the economic sense. Traditions surviving with the original rural populations mix with new modern elements of the in-migrating urban populations. A number of these cooperatives have gone bankrupt, with their premises abandoned, neglected and becoming derelict. Others have survived only to see most of their agricultural productivity decline relative to competition, which, too, resulted in many of their buildings being unutilized and neglected. Since these JRDs used to be part of the majority of villages, with 2759 rural settlements in Slovakia, their number is bound to be very high. They have left a deep imprint in the countryside which occupies soil and hinders the villages in their development. Is it therefore necessary for every village to have their own cooperative, if they tend to be either abandoned or utilized only partially? Transformation of this space into an area serving locals, supporting reinforcement of their social bonds and bonds with the village itself. Opening up former cooperatives for the rural populations.

Esta tese de doutorado investiga a estrutura e a dinâmica dos mercados acessados pelos agricultores familiares na Microrregião de Pitanga, uma das mais pobres do estado do Paraná, que apresenta um histórico com baixos índices de desenvolvimento. Através das contribuições do economista institucional Douglass North, complementada pelos contributos da Sociologia Econômica, e, de uma intensa pesquisa de campo, pretende-se fazer uma análise institucional do desenvolvimento rural, com ênfase em três dinâmicas de troca mercantil (leite, plantas medicinais e Programa Aquisição de Alimentos da Agricultura Familiar). Pretende-se demonstrar de que forma as instituições interferem (motivando ou restringindo) no funcionamento dos mercados e estabelecer a sua relação com a pobreza rural. Os resultados obtidos permitem dizer que, apesar das novas possibilidades de comercialização que promoveram uma mudança institucional, com a criação dos novos mercados a partir da década de 1990 (leite e plantas medicinais) e 2000 (Programa Aquisição de Alimentos da Agricultura Familiar), persiste um conjunto de instituições que caracterizam a “pobreza” das formas de inserção mercantil, tais como questões de gênero, analfabetismo, assistencialismo político, aspectos culturais voltados unicamente à produção de subsistência, tradição com bovinocultura de corte e monoculturas, a não valorização da pequena produção diversificada e a fragilidade das relações de poder quando os agricultores não estão organizados. Estes aspectos – observados a partir da análise institucional comparada dos “mercados da pobreza” – estão inseridos num processo histórico maior, que permite compreender a pobreza dos municípios da Microrregião de Pitanga, ou seja, o ambiente macroinstitucional representado pelo Estado e suas políticas de desenvolvimento desde os tempos da colonização. Nesse sentido, a forma desigual de acesso a terra é a instituição mais emblemática. / This thesis investigates the structure and dynamics of markets accessed by farmers in Microregion Pitanga, one of the poorest in the state of Paraná, which has a history with low levels of development. Through the contributions of the institutional economist Douglass North, complemented by the contributions of Economic Sociology, and an intense field research, we intend to make an institutional analysis of rural development, with emphasis on three dynamic market exchange (milk, medicinal plants and Food Acquisition Programme of Family Agriculture). It is intended to demonstrate how institutions affect (encouraging or restricting) the functioning of markets and establish its relationship with rural poverty. The results obtained allow us to say that, despite new marketing possibilities that promote institutional change with the creation of new markets from the 1990s (Milk and medicinal plants) and 2000 (Food Acquisition Programme of Family Agriculture), persists a set of institutions that characterize the "poverty" of the forms of market integration, such as gender, illiteracy, welfare policy, cultural aspects geared solely to the production of subsistence tradition with beef cattle and monocultures, not the recovery of small production diversified and the fragility of power relations when farmers are not organized. These aspects - observed from the comparative institutional analysis of "markets of poverty" - are included in a larger historical process, which allows us to understand the poverty of the municipalities Microregion Pitanga, ie the environment macroinstitucional represented by the state and its development policies since colonial times. In this sense, the uneven access to land is the most iconic institution. / En esta tesis se investiga la estructura y la dinámica de los mercados de acceso de los agricultores en Microregión Pitanga, una de las más pobres del estado de Paraná, que tiene una historia con bajos niveles de desarrollo. A través de las aportaciones del economista Douglass North institucional, que se complementa con las aportaciones de la sociología económica, y un intenso trabajo de campo, se pretende hacer un análisis institucional del desarrollo rural, con énfasis en tres dinámica de cambio de mercado (leche, plantas medicinales y Alimentos Programa de Adquisición de la Agricultura Familiar). Su objetivo es demostrar cómo las instituciones afectan (alentar o restringir) el funcionamiento de los mercados y establecer su relación con la pobreza rural. Los resultados obtenidos nos permiten afirmar que, a pesar de nuevas posibilidades de mercado que promueven el cambio institucional con la creación de nuevos mercados a partir de la década de 1990 (Leche y plantas medicinales) y 2000 (Adquisición de Alimentos de la Agricultura Familiar), persiste un conjunto de instituciones que caracterizan a la "pobreza" de las formas de integración de los mercados, como el género, el analfabetismo, la política de bienestar social, los aspectos culturales orientados exclusivamente a la producción de subsistencia tradición con ganado vacuno y monocultivos, no la recuperación de la pequeña producción diversificada y la fragilidad de las relaciones de poder en que los agricultores no están organizados. - Estos aspectos observados en el análisis institucional comparativo de los "mercados de la pobreza" - se incluyen en un proceso histórico más amplio, lo que nos permite comprender la pobreza de los municipios Microregión Pitanga, es decir, el medio ambiente macroinstitucional representado por el Estado y sus políticas de desarrollo desde la época colonial. En este sentido, la forma de desigualdad en el acceso a la tierra es la institución más emblemática.

This thesis deals with the evaluation of the quality of life in rural communities in the Region of Prachatice. The thesis is also focused on the evaluation of the economic weakness of the municipalities, its causes and manifestations, and, at least, the possibility of improving life in these communities. An integral part of this work is finding those sources of funding and the related use of funds and grants. In the theoretical part, I have discussed the importance of the regional and social policy focusing on rural issues and their development, with the development of the regions linked to the use of subsidies and the disbursement of funds, especially funds of the European Union. In the practical part, contingency tables and cluster analysis are used, as well as special methods. The results of this study has confirmed that quality of life in LFA municipalities and their economic weakness depends on the size of the village. The conclusion provides an overall assessment of the work and its results.