Jindřich Frajer

Palacký University Olomouc · Department of Geography

New empirical evidence regarding theories of the resource curse and regional resilience in the context of energy transitions is presented in this article. Our analysis aimed to answer the questions of what the principal differences are between coal mining and other regions in the Czech Republic, and what are the determinants of population decline,...

The book presents a graphically and editorially modified methodology that deals with water management objects (dams, small water reservoirs, waterways, objects for the use of water energy, water supply, sewerage and sewage treatment objects), which it assesses from the point of view of historic preservation. It provides a basic orientation in the t...

Young people’s lives will be influenced by climate change and, in turn, climate change may itself be influenced by their future behaviour. Environmental education has thus to rise to the challenge of providing students with knowledge that will go beyond the simply factual and enable an understanding of the complexity of climate change. This paper f...

Secondhand smoking has a serious negative impact on human health, but this can be mitigated by anti-smoking policies. The enforcement of these policies is always accompanied by the voices of the hospitality venues representatives, concerned about the economic decline and the loss of customers. The aim of our research was to analyse the impact of th...

Historical maps are a valuable resource in landscape research. The information gathered from them facilitates the cognisance of landscapes and may assist current landscape planning. This study focuses on the historical occurrence and spatial extent of man-made ponds in the Czech Republic. Based on the 1 st Military Survey maps (1764-1783) of the Ha...

Standardized delimiting of local climate zones (LCZ) will be better applicable to the urban adap-tation to climate change when the ecohydrological properties of LCZ units are known. Therefore, the properties of LCZ units based on the methodology of ecohydrological zoning of the urban landscape, which was created in GIS as a basis for planning blue-...

Currently, there is a tendency to apply nature-based landscape components as an important element in decentralised stormwater management, an essential part of sustainable urban development. The term blue-green infrastructure (BGI) is now used for many planning solutions of sustainable cities. Using thematic analysis of 27 studies and documents betw...

Small water reservoirs have represented an important water feature of the Central European landscape since the Middle Ages. In our study, we focused on researching the historical functions of those reservoirs and their changes through time. We recorded 169 mentions to the functions of selected ponds in the selected four historical reservoirs around...

Přestože se o tématech modro-zelené infrastruktury u nás diskutuje v rámci různých oborů, nemá tento termín v praxi zatím jednotné vymezení. Jak ilustruje rozbor plánovacích dokumentů Plzně, aktuálně se v této souvislosti prosazují nástroje adaptace na klimatickou změnu a efektivní využití dešťové vody, často ve vztahu k veřejným prostranstvím. Jak...

The rapid expansion of urban areas has been a feature of the industrial age. Landscape features have been replaced or transformed to accommodate the needs of an increasingly urban society. Our study focuses on the disappearance or transformation of man-made ponds in the historic region of Bohemia in the Czech Republic. Using current and historic ma...

Scientific interest across the fields of historical landscape research and historical land use has grown in connection with the dynamic changes in the current landscape. Various historical sources are used for gathering information on historical land use and its reconstruction. These sources are then the subject matter of the research with respect...

The future life-styles and pro-environmental behaviour of today’s younger students will be a cardinal factor in mitigating the severity of projected climate change. In this study, Czech students at upper-primary and secondary-school levels responded to a set of covertly paired statements designed to assess their beliefs concerning the usefulness of...

The aim of the article is to contribute to an understanding of the attitudes of post-communist Europe’s inhabitants towards gambling, and of their opinions concerning which activities can be regarded as gambling. The Attitudes Towards Gambling Scale (ATGS-8) questionnaire was used in the survey, ensuring the international comparability of the resul...

The publication „Ecohydrological management of the urban landscape’s microstructures“, which is elaborated by team of authors from two geographical workplaces (in Pilsen and Usti nad Labem) and a few external co‑workers, presents along with maps one of the key outputs of the project under Technology Agency of the Czech Republic (TAČR TD03000343). F...

Landscape has always been the focus of artistic interest. Landscape is also the object of research interest of geographers, and it offers a field for cooperation between art and geography. Our study focuses on landscape painting as an important source in identifying landscape changes. We focused on discovering the location where the painter placed...

Gambling is generally considered to be a socially negative phenomenon. On the other hand it also has its supporters, as proved by recent research. Mayors are important administrators of local affairs as they represent municipal governments. Their attitudes towards gambling vary and this could influence both the spatial distribution of gambling and...

The article deals with the potential of the Josephian Cadastre (1785–1790) to be the first modern cadastre in the territory of the Habsburg Monarchy for the purposes of the geographic research of historical landscapes. Although the cadastre is not equipped with maps, the Book of Fasí provides very detailed written information of each plot within th...

In this study we focus on a detailed analysis of air temperature in the city centre of Olomouc, using a bicycle for mobile measurements. We studied the spatial pattern of air temperature, analysed temperature differences between local climate zones (LCZs) and identified hot spots and cool spots in the city centre. The results point to a significant...

Due to global climate change and anthropogenic pressures on the landscape, one of the current geographical problems is retention of water in agricultural landscapes. One possibility to tackle this issue is the construction of artificial water bodies, which has historical traditions in the form of fishponds in Central European landscapes. Unfortunat...

This study is focused on the changing of areas of water bodies in selected villages of the Pilsen Region (Czechia). We researched several different types of rural settlements and three time horizons with the help of old maps, orthophoto maps and GIS tools. To capture the influence of their location within the urban system, we chose 15 places from f...

The paper presents a map of historical ponds of the whole Czech Republic which was created on the basis of the 2nd Military Survey (1: 28,000) from the period 1836 to 1852. This source was selected with respect to its age, precision, validity and accessibility at the Czech National Geoportal via the Web Map Service. All water areas, which had exist...

In the study area of the Sulkov site in the western part of the suburban landscape of the city of Pilsen we focus on detailed historical analysis of the development of the landscape, which has undergone significant changes, and thus clearly demonstrates the impact of the driving forces on both the regional and inter-regional levels. The documented...

Environmentální historie (dějiny) je v současnosti progresivně se rozvíjejícím oborem. Předložená studie se zabývá environmentálními dějinami mlýnského rybníka v Druhanicích na Čáslavsku, jehož vznik zřejmě souvisel s činností sedleckých cisterciáků, kteří tuto krajinu od 12. století významně přetvářeli. Z historie rybníka jsou vybrány tři zásadní...

The long-term development of water bodies is investigated in this article using the cases of two river basins with similar natural conditions: the Kyjovka and Trkmanka River Basins in the Czech Republic. Using old topographic maps, land use development was assessed and the analysis of driving forces of land use changes was carried out. The essentia...

Although the first mention of ponds in the Czech lands dates back to the turn of the 10th and 11th centuries, the main development in pond-management occurred from the mid-15th century to the end of the 16th century. During this time ponds became a long-term and lucrative investment. However, just as the establishment of ponds at that time was rela...

Kniha pojednává o historických rybnících identifi kovaných nad mapami II. vojenského mapování (1836–1852) a přispívá tak k detailnějšímu poznání podoby historické i současné krajiny. Především ale může sloužit jako primární podklad pro případnou obnovu zaniklých rybníků nebo pro revitalizační či protipovodňová opatření v krajině v lokalitách histor...

Research of ponds in the Czech environment has a long tradition. In the past, nearly 76,000 ponds were scattered in the Czech landscape, with an area of approximately 160,000 hectares, two thirds of which were drained during the 18th and 19th century. This study compares possibilities to reconstruct location of extinct ponds that were drained befor...

Database of defunct ponds in the Czech Republic and their current land use The submitted article presents the results of a newly-created map data-base of defunct ponds in CZ and analyses the efficiency of spatial information in combination with other resources to determine the potential for land use. The database was created with the use of histori...

Th is study examines development of water areas from 1763 to the present, including the development of land use and analysis of the driving forces of land use changes in the example Kyjovka river basin. Kyjovka river basin is one of the typical agricultural regions in southern Moravia. Signifi cant changes in land use are associated with the proces...

The Czech Republic belongs among the countries with a developed water management. The care of water resources is supported by the fact that almost 54 % of drinking water comes from the surface water resources. The interest of the water management policy lies in an effort to retain most of the water surface in a basin as a potential supply and preve...

This study deals with the possibilities of creation of a map database of historical ponds and its usability in combination with other sources of spatial information, using an example of a compact territory: the Chrudimka River Basin (Eastern Bohemia). A number of available data sources were used for the creation of the database: the maps of the his...

Old maps are an important historical source for exploring historical landscapes. They are often used as cartographic bases for studying structural changes and reconstruction of land use. This study is concerned with comparison of positional accuracy of a set of 'old maps' as compared to present­day maps. Determination of positional deviations defin...

Stare karte so pomemben zgodovinski vir za preučevanje nekdanjih pokrajin. Pogosto se uporabljajo kot kartografske podlage za preučevanje strukturnih sprememb in nekdanje rabe tal. V prispevku je predstavljena primerjava lokacijske natančnosti izbranih 'starih kart' s sedanjimi. Lokacijska natančnost pomeni stopnjo natančnosti starih kart in možnos...

The article deals with a modern time transformations of suburban geographical environment in the hinterland of a city. Its aim is to identify and assess major changes in a structure and function of city segments on the basis interdisciplinary approach using methodological and source apparatus of geography and history. As a model example three typol...

A few ponds from many fishpond-systems, which were build in Čáslav region, still exist. In past, ponds created ingenious water accumulating system in this region. Its main function was supplying villages and Čáslav town with water, because since the late-middle ages, all region suffered from scarity of drink and service water. But first ponds were...

Hluboký brook, was one of the most important stream in the Caslav region. As it is said in historical works, it was a "water artery" of the town Caslav. There were built a huge number of small water reservoirs (mostly fishponds) on this stream for supplying Caslav by water. This role ended by 1931, when new water-conduit from location near Chotěboř...