Kamila Turečková

• Assoc. Prof. Ph.D. MBA
• Assoc. Prof. at Silesian University in Opava

Smart governance as a new stage in the development of public sector management brings many challenges to the cities of the 21st century. It opens new possibilities for how to maximize the socio-economic and ecological performance of cities and cope with negative externalities. But to achieve these benefits, it is necessary to create conditions for...

Urban Exploration (URBEX) is a relatively recent leisure activity that is directly related to the exploration of abandoned and unused objects and areas, collectively referred to as brownfields. This survey of modern ruins is conducted for private purposes only, for the purpose of photo-documentation or video-visualization and their sharing within t...

The article examines the effectiveness of remote monitoring and the evaluation of facts about patients with hematologic malignancies using telemedicine based on SMART technologies. The project was carried out in the Department of Haematooncology of the University Hospital Ostrava. Its objective was to test the efficacy of telemedicine in the treatm...

Our paper summarises the results of a study conducted at the turn of 2021 and 2022 on the awareness of the existence of smart benches in the public space of Czech cities and municipalities. Smart benches represent one of a number of smart features that are implemented as part of the practical application of the smart city concept into the real envi...

The aim of this paper is to assess how mothers’ education affects their experience of motherhood and parenthood. The selected topic is based on the theoretical views of selected authors who deal with the issue of motivation and experience of maternity and parental leave. The core of the paper is an evaluation of primary research aimed at the motiva...

This paper analyses and compares the specifics of the social security systems in the Czech Republic and Slovakia with a focus on maternity and parenthood. The chosen topic is illustrated by diagrams of social security systems, namely state social support benefits and sickness insurance benefits. The article focuses specifically on maternity, parent...

The current era acknowledges the immense impact of creativity on economic growth and regional development. There is an ongoing debate about the position of creativity and its sources and implications in regional economies when thorougly examining regional disparities. We contribute to the debate by piloting an investigation of five groups of creati...

The term «Society 4.0» is used to define a group of people in advanced economies who form a modern cultural society, which is heavily influenced by technological developments and digitalization and having a significant impact on most aspects of human life. The notion of Society 4.0 is closely related to and factually corresponds with the Fourth Ind...

Scientific research in the area of chateau brownfields is quite new and thus offers room for interesting findings and insights. This text presents the results of a pilot study in search of causality between the causes of the occurrence and spheres of restoration of chateau brownfields in the Moravian-Silesian region in the Czech Republic, where cha...

Healthcare, like other industries, is increasingly using smart technologies, which also include intelligent/smart wayfinding navigation. The focus of this article, as part of the research project (its second step), was to analyze the economic effectiveness of the introduction of the wayfinding system in a local hospital in the Czech Republic. In th...

In the European space, chateau buildings and sites represent an important historical, urban and socialelement of the cultural landscape, which refers to the continuity of the present and the past in the spaceof urban and rural settlements. However, it is a sad fact that many of these buildings are now abandonedand dilapidated. The aim of this paper...

Maternity leave is a standard social policy instrument implied in the family life of citizens of developed economies, but the actual scheme and conditions of the maternity leave and maternity benefit vary considerably from one country to another, even in the case of the usual regional units. Hence, the paper makes a deductive comparison of the indi...

Dilapidated, neglected, or abandoned sites and buildings (so-called brownfields) are frequently neither visually attractive nor aesthetically valuable. Indeed, neglected brownfields contribute to the emergence of both objective and subjective barriers to the social, economic, and environmental development of communities. We also know that the occur...

Chateaus (castles) and mansion houses (residences) are a common part of village and town settlements in our conditions in the Czech Republic. Due to the interruption of ownership and property relations to these buildings during the 20th century, many of them lost their original or additional useful purpose, were abandoned and fell into disrepair an...

The issue associated with the situation of brownfields around the world is a very current topic today. This article focuses on the situation of the existence of brownfields in the Czech Republic. The aim of this article is to assess the current situation of brownfields from the perspective of municipalities and cities in the Czech Republic. The dat...

The issue of brownfields, abandoned and unused sites and buildings, is repeatedly accentuated by the experts with respect to the predominant contemporary urbanistic, environmental, economic or social approaches. Despite the fact that the issue of brownfields was scientifically discussed from various points of view, there are still some general find...

The cycle of development and regeneration of brownfields reflects economic and social development in the given area with an interdependent link to sustainable regional development and urban and environmental responsibility of stakeholders. Regeneration of these abandoned sites provides us with an opportunity to generate new benefits for the whole s...

The paper aims to deepen our understanding of the relationship and the impact of creative actors on regional development and investigates the nexus between them. The novelty of the paper lies in constructing an original criteria matrix of creative actors' indicators which might serve as a basis for further research and policy implications. The orig...

The aim of the presented paper is to synthesize a partial non-uniform typology of brownfields into a logical and complex framework with reference to the content and classification completeness. The synthesis of typological schemes and their objective categorization into standard classes and groups reflecting the general requirements for the charact...

This paper is dedicated, both theoretically and conceptually, to a methodical approach towards the efficiency evaluation of proposed smart city solutions. The implementation of smart solutions in proposed projects and activities is supported by a complex assessment of benefits and costs as part of a cost benefit analysis (CBA) with the goal of maxi...

The presented paper deals, in theoretical and conceptual terms, with one of the Smart solutions in the concept of Smart City. A smart solution can be defined as an innovative and functional approach towards solving situations in a responsible way and with positive consequences for society. These smart solutions are the core of the Smart City concep...

The abandoned buildings and areas-brownfields are continuously an integral part of settlements across Europe. One form of interaction between brownfields and the surrounding area is through the property market when it is clear that brownfields affect the value of real estate in its neighborhood. The subject of our research was why and with what int...

The issue of brownfield regeneration is closely connected to balanced and sustainable development of regions, towns, and cities as it endeavors to reuse buildings and sites that have already lost their original use, but at the same time offers a possibility to generate new beneficial activities for the whole society that exceed just material or phy...

Residents' preferences are one of the factors in deciding how brownfields should be revitalized. We compare the views of residents in a city with many brownfields (Karviná) with those in a city with only few brownfields (České Budějovice). We assessed the preferences of residents for four global regeneration alternatives (refurbishment, demolition,...

The localization theory of the regional development constitutes even these days the permanent groundwork for the possible explanations of the local distribution of the firms in relation to their economic prosperity and potential for the future development. In this paper, factors and contributions of the firm concentration will be theoretically defi...

Brownfield regeneration from the perspective of residents: Place circumstances versus character of respondents. Deturope, 9, 2: 71-92. Abstract Little attention is paid to the inhabitants' views of places where brownfields are localized. If the residents attract some attention in this matter, it is most often at global level, and no influence of re...

Brownfields are an integral part of contemporary cities in Central Europe. It is obvious that the occurrence of brownfields influences the value of residential properties that are located in their neighbourhoods. In our research, we focused on the problem of perception of brownfields and ways how the perception of these sites affects prices of loca...

The development of renewable energy sources has been primarily justified on the ground of environmental policies and energy security, but new jobs opportunities and establishment of new economy sectors may be equally important co-benefits from investments in this sector. The main goal of this paper is to assess the employment benefits of investment...

In the programming period 2007-2013, the Czech Republic was allowed to draw 26,7 billion euros from European funds. After joining the European Union in 2004, the Czech Republic gained an access to European funds by means of submitting individual or simplified projects within individual operational programmes. In the period 2007-2013, drawing funds...

The paper focuses in its first part on theoretical aspects and preconditions of the acceptance of the facilities for generating renewable energy with an emphasis on rural areas. Benefits and barriers of the relation between the rural development and renewable energies in conditions of the Czech Republic are discussed. By means of two questionnaire...

Due to recent societal changes ‘brownfield’ sites have gradually become a significant element in planning urban development. Brownfields can occur as a barrier and obstacle to the development of the urban organism but simultaneously they also represent unrealized potential. Brownfields, ex-industrial sites, are greater in those cities whose develop...

The presented article uses the method of non-weighted average absolute deviation for expressing income inequality in 11 selected Central and Eastern European Countries. Specifically, the analysis of income inequality is done for Poland, the Czech Republic, the Slovak Republic, Austria, Slovenia, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria, Latvia, Lithuania and Est...