The work deals with the problem of citizen participation in the work of elected municipal bodies and the possibilities of its active application. Participation of the population is one of the instruments that municipal autonomy can use in its decision. The aim of my thesis was to find out how citizens can participate in active life in the village. They were the basic concepts and defined the legal framework in which it is possible to apply participation. The subject of research were the two selected micro-regions in the Pilsen region. It was determined by the degree of public participation at village council meetings and their participation in clubs and associations. The survey among citizens and other actors in public life were investigated possibilities for communication, collaboration and set the conditions to improve this activity.

This diploma thesis is devoted to the analysis of both demographic and socioeconomic development of the Vietnamese community in the Czech Republic with the focus on Karlovy Vary region and Ústí nad Labem region based on the available data. This study is composed of two basic sections, which present theoretic aspects and analysis. The first section explains basic terms, theories, history of Vietnamese migration, changes in the motives of migration and the laws that affect foreigners. This part of the thesis also describes changes in the law that affected the sources of the data and their consistency. The second part presents demographic analysis and comparison of the development of the foreigners and the Vietnamese population. On the basis of the result of my analysis the study also includes their estimated future development, which was assessed using trend functions. This thesis is aimed at evaluating the applicability of some of the migration theories on Vietnamese community. Lastly, the study describes the characteristics and socioeconomic activities of the Vietnamese community in Ústi nad Labem and Karlovy Vary region.

The thesis aims to determine whether religion is a significant factor which influ-ences the migration of Vietnamese Catholics. In order to meet the goal I have set intermediate objective. Individual goal include the creation of interviews with Vietnamese Catholics. The thesis contains a theoretical part, which comprises the history of migration of Vietnamese in CR as well as the basic characteristic of Viet-nam and its traditions. This section also outlines the life, culture and religion in Vietnam. The practical part presents the field research, which was executed through interviews. Interviews are conducted among different age groups of Viet-namese nationals professing Christianity. Data for the practical part was collected during field research conducted from 1. 12. 2015 to 25. 2. 2016, the method used was semi-structured extended-calls with different age groups of Vietnamese na-tionals who profess Christianity.

The main topic and purpose of the thesis is to compare and contrast different in-patient addiction treatment methods used in particular institutions in the Czech Republic, Peru and Nicaragua. In the first part of the thesis there are different inpatient addiction treatment methods described in terms of specific environment and methods of treatment. The other part of the thesis is devoted to the comparative research based on the content analysis of 15 semi-structured interviews with in-patients in three particular treatment centres in the Czech Republic, Peru, and Nicaragua. The comparative research provides a background for the grounded theory development and brings conclusions. Conclusions of this thesis contain information and proposals for development in drug addiction treatment approaches inspired by different socio-cultural context of the treatment methods.

This thesis focuses on the analysis of 30 interviews with drug addicted patients from therapeutic communities in Peru, Nicaragua and the Czech Republic. The main objective is to recognize the differences in the identity of patients and examine the differences in their assessment of local treatment. Processing will be used for content analysis and created the grounded theory, which explains the socio-cultural differences in the identity of internal patients from different therapeutic communities.

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This diploma thesis deals with community based tourism in Sri Lanka and possibilities of development of concept in this country. In the first part of the thesis there are defined basic concepts of international tourism, thesis further describes the issue of rural community based tourism and the general profile of Sri Lanka. The second part deals with the level of development of community tourism in Sri Lanka and discusses the obstacles to the development of this concept. In the next part of the thesis a development project is proposed, which proposes a possible way to develop the concept of rural community tourism in Sri Lanka.

Forest ecosystem in Europe has been affected by the anthropogenic activities for many decades. Coppicing was the most commonly used forest management practice in Europe and the coppice forests were abandoned or converted into high forests from the beginning of 20th century. In general, anthropogenic activities including forest management (especially biomass harvesting) cause modifications in soil chemical, biochemical, and biological properties that subsequently affects the soil health and quality which may affect the soil ecosystem functions including the climate change. However, all forests harvesting practices might have adverse effects on soil properties, but their abandoned or conversion into high forests can have positive impact on their recovery. The present thesis highlights the assessing of soil functionality, health and quality in differently managed sessile oak forest in the south Moravian region of the Czech Republic using soil enzyme activities and microbial community functional diversity as bio indicators for soil health and qualityy. In addition, this work proved the potential of soil proteins as antimicrobial agent against multi-resistant microbial pathogens (i.e. methicillin resistant staphylococcus aureus MRSA) using different experimental protocols. Our results provide evidence that the past intensive management system such as coppicing contributed to organic matter depletion in the soil and the abandonment of these forests has improved the overall situation, by reducing the side effects of the management within long time period and help the soil recovery under the extensively managed coppiced forest. On the other hand, the soil proteins extracted from the coppiced forest showed higher potential as antimicrobial agent than the soil proteins extracted from the high forest. This result provides strong evidence that the management practices affect the microbial community composition, structure, and function due to the changes in the micro and macroclimatic conditions in the managed site.

Community and its ties to locality have been bothering sociologists and researchers since society has abandoned its traditional organization. Many of them considered positive and negative aspects of industrial and later modern society's influence on community sense and human relationships. This thesis will walk the reader through the influential writings on the topic of community, meaning of space and human relationships. Starting with the appreciation of traditional community, through worries about its disappearance, diminishing importance of local ties and ending with complete anonymity and individualization. The empirical part of this thesis brings up results of the research conducted in neighborhoods of Žiar nad Hronom, town in central Slovakia. Findings from the interviews were confronted with ideas of New Urbanism, basically confirming role of architecture design in neighbors' relationships. Intensity, frequency and quality of interaction among neighbors are thus influenced by factors of spatial design, length of residence and busyness of residents. Nature of the relationships among neighbors is far from ideal (as in traditional community) but people look for communities in wider sense, creating networks with people from other social circles than those bounded to a place.

The aim of this thesis is to explore the different types of user motivation to participate in online art communities and confront them with the possibilities these communities offer. The first chapter is devoted to the issue of motivation in terms of psychology, basic concepts and their relation to the researched topic. The second chapter focuses on the basic concepts of virtual communities. These topics serve as the theoretical basis for the third chapter that focuses on online art community itself: definition of this term, recognition of the basic types of these communities, types of users and their motivation to enter and participate. The chapter concludes with the following types of motivation being confronted with the possibilities online art communities offer to their users. The last chapter deals with empirical research aimed at finding dominant forms of motivation, comparing different types of users, exploring their relationship with other users as well as habits in sharing their own creations. Based on results the partial recommendations to the creators of the community websites on which these communities grow are formulated.