The aim of this Master thesis titled ''The role of Small and Medium Business Enterprises to the Socio-Economic Development of Ghana'' was to analyze the opportunities of Small and Medium Business Enterprises (SMEs) operating in the informal sector of Ghana and its contribution to the economic growth and development through registration and taxation. To tackle the topic, a quantitative approach was adopted. Questionnaires were circulated to SMEs in the Accra metropolis and based on the responses received; analysis of the data was done to know the various ways in which the informal sector can be induced to register and also taxed. Also the amount of revenue which can be generated from registering and taxing SMEs in the informal sector was calculated to know how much the government is losing as well as how it would contribute to socio-economic development of the region and the country at large. The study concludes with some recommendations on the development of the informal sector and as such effective ways to register and tax the informal sector for the socio-economic development.

The subject of thisthesis is tje population development in the microregion of Boskovicko between 2004-2014. There are evaluated selected demographic characteristics and the comparason with superior territorial units - District Blansko and the South Moravien region. A technique of the time lines trends is predicted development of demographic indicators by 2016. This thesis focuses on indicators of demographics statics and dymamics. The demographics indicators are population structure, mortality, fertility, abortion rate, marriage rate, divorce rate, migration and natural reproduction. abortion rate, marriage rate, divorce rate, migration and natural reproduction.

Principal objective of this thesis is to give a true picture of the population development in the town Děčín, to analyse and evaluate a demographic development and a spatial movement of the inhabitants. This thesis recognizes the connection between its history and present, it investigates deviations and suggests possible solutions to the problem to attract people. The main chapters include the demographic development, the social, age, economic structures and the migration. It compares Děčíns' population with population of Ústecký region and the Czech republic as well. The comparision of the population uncovers a certain trend in the Czech Republic. This thesis includes suggestions of specialists who were willing to discuss some topics personally. The thesis discovers that Děčín has a big potential for development. The town must utilize its potential or it will be burdened by its debts and the inhabitants will move to the developed regions.

This thesis deals with the monitoring and evaluation of the development of landscape structure in the municipality Chyše in Karlovy Vary Region. Hereafter the work focuses on the study of small sacral architecture and its impact on the overall appearance of the contemporary landscape. For analysis of the area were used map data from three periods. The oldest substrates were Imperial Imprints of cadastral maps stable from 1841. Furthermore, it was the black and white aerial photographs from 1952 and current orthophotos from 2014. The first part focuses on the definition of general concepts and issues in the direction of landscape. The second part focuses on the characteristics and history of the area. The third part deals with the processing of the underlying data in ArcGIS 10.2. The data were vectorised based on three time periods. This was followed by their distribution into categories LU/LC. And the final phase was analysing data, including interpretation. The results point to the current and past trends of changes in the landscape structure. It can trace mainly by the declining mosaicity and thus increasing the overall landscape facets. Since the 1950' soccurs larger areas of forests at the expense of agricultural land. The landscape around Chyše, however, retains partly its distinctive character, despite all the outside influences. The results show the evolution of the landscape structure with a substantial contribution from a man for nearly 180 years. Significant benefits can bring results as a source for the future development of the area, especially in the field of landscape planning, urban planning and land consolidation.

The thesis deals with landscape development in Nová Ves I. The historical development of landscape was based on the evaluation of three maps from different times. The chosen ones were Stable cadastral map (1841), an ortophotomap from 1950´s (1954) and a recent ortophoto map (2015). The first part of the thesis is dedicated to literary research, which is focused on demarcation of related issues. The second part is focused on data processing and analysis. Maps were processed by ArcGIS 10.2 software. Raster data were manually vectorised according to the chosen categories of landscape utilization. The maps of landscape utilization during the times are providing important information about landscape development, mostly in past 170 years. At the end, the results derived from the analysis are put into context with the overall objectives of land consolidation. That show us the possible benefits of land consolidation in area of interest.

The subject of dissertation is to evaluate the structure, development and silviculture spruce-beech stands in the western Giant Mountains and design of differentiated silviculture of these stand in similar environmental conditions. The aim of this study was to describe the structure of trees natural regeneration and the structure of tree layer, evaluate their current development and to predict future developments and based on detailed analysis of habitat and stand conditions to propose a framework directive management of the studied stands and stands located in similar habitat and stand conditions in the Giant Mountains. For this purpose were used primarily permanent research plots (PRP) 1, 2, 8, 9 and 35 with the dimensions of 50 × 50 m, which were established and regularly monitored since 1980 (PRP 1, 2, 8 and 9), PRP 35 were established in 2004 and a number of other sub-plots. For the evaluation of natural regeneration was on each research plot marked transects 50 × 5 m (250 m2). Measurement of the natural regeneration included all individuals present at the individual transects, whose diameter breast-height diameter was smaller than 7 cm. After measuring all the data was evaluated spatial, species, height and thickness structure. To evaluate the tree layer were measured all individuals on permanent research plot with breast-height diameter greater or equal than 7 cm. The measured data were subsequently evaluated by mathematical-statistical methods. Visualization of the tree layer and development simulation was performed using the growth simulator biodynamic of forest SIBYLA. The results show that the structure stands was on individual permanent research plots very variable. Variability occurred in natural regeneration even within individual transects. Significant differences are evident in the development of stands that provide space for a wide range of near natural differentiated care within of stands type and individual types and subtypes of forest development.

The thesis deals with product and process innovation issues in the company Aveflor, a.s. Contemporarily, product and process innovation in a very important issue for a constant new development of services, technological processes and final products in order to keep the pace of the company with the very high competition in the present market. The thesis deals with the innovation process and its particular steps. All the processes are analytically applied on the company Aveflor, a.s. In the empirical part of the thesis the company Aveflor, a.s. is introduced by analysis of particular phases of innovation process such as: task, development, plan of new products, results of proposals, verification, the realization of a new product, barriers of innovation activities with particular innovations of presented products. The hypothesis is that the whole process of innovation can be improved together with the higher productivity in the company Aveflor, a.s. The aim of the thesis is to evaluate ongoing innovations of the development of new products in the company Aveflor, a.s. An inherent aim is to compare particular processes, identify drawbacks and make a proposal of their improvements.

Family farms have irreplaceable place in the history of our society. The aim of this thesis was to find out how the selected family farms in rural areas have changed their position in the course of historical development. The thesis also supplements the theoretical knowledge of family farms. This thesis is divided into two parts. The first part contains a review of literature related to the rural areas, agriculture and family farms. The research is based on interviews with the owners of selected family farms. The acquired information is supplemented with data from the survey, which took place in the context of sales events organized by family farms. Respondents answered questions about their relationship to a particular family farm and expressed opinions on the family farm in general. The thesis confirmed the stated hypotheses that family farms have a stable position in rural areas, are actively involved in the protection of nature and landscape and their activities are positively perceived by the public. It has not confirmed the hypothesis that the owners of family farms reflect the improvement in the status of family farms in rural areas now than in the past.

This thesis analyzes the historical development of wetlands in corn production areas in Moravia, Czech Republic. Wetlands were analyzed changes in time and space for a period of 180 years. The main objective is to analyze the development of wetland habitats in the landscape using old maps, aerial photographs and GIS. The bases were of the Imperial Imprints of the Stable cadastre from the first half of the 19th century and contemporary orthophoto. There were also used GIS layers of the current location of wetlands, farmland, forests, rivers and waterways. In historical documents were evaluated by two categories 1) wet meadows and 2) swamps and marshes. In the current surface are only evaluated wetlands. The total area is 18054 ha. The area of wetlands dramatically decreased from 108 ha in the first half of the 19th century on 14 ha in 2015. Most of the wetlands have been converted to agricultural land - arable land (72 %), meadows and pastures (12 %). Wetlands succession was transformed to bushes (5,4 %). There was 5 % of the deaths of wetlands built and drained. Most wetlands have been transformed due to the pressure on the production function of the landscape in order to get more food. In the first half of the 19th century it was dominated by wet meadows, they had 684 ha. Despite the disappearance of a large part of the wetlands created new wetlands, which have 12.4 hectares. Most newly created wetlands are located in the cadastral area of Mutěnice. Only one wetland (1.68 ha) remained unchanged, located in cadastral Čejč. This wetland had a history of more land (25.15 hectares) and has been linked with Čejčské Lake. The main result of this work is to determine the trajectories of development of wetland ecosystems in the lowlands of Moravia. Descriptions of these trajectories have contributed to understanding influences on the development of wetlands. Results wetlands contribute to the development of knowledge in the field of landscape ecology. The results can be used to restore extinct wetlands and creation of new wetlands in the historic wet meadows. The information obtained can be used in landscape planning with regard to the protection and management of wetlands.

The theme of my thesis is analysis and evaluation of development of wood pastures at several locations in the Elbe lowlands from the first half of 19th century up to the present. The area is characterized by its fertility and the large share of arable land. The data analysis was developed using a geographic information system (GIS). The basic documents were maps and written operate of Stationary cadaster. The results of the work are map compositions depicting the change trajectories of wood pastures (extinct, continuous and new), graphs show the area of individual trajectories and evaluate the utility of written operate of the Stacionary cadastre. We have put the obtained information about the natural and social-economic development of the area into context. We got a possible explanation of development, therefore, why the old wooded pastures vanish and new ones arisen elsewhere. Changes of wood pastures were influenced by socio-economic development of the area and probably by distance from a watercourse. The informations obtained from written operate of Stacionary cadaster are useless for this thesis.