Ladislav Novotný

Ladislav Novotný
Pavol Jozef Šafárik University in Košice · Institute of Geography

PhD

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The economy has been developing exceptionally dynamically in recent decades. In the Central European countries of the former Eastern Bloc, the transformation from a centrally planned to a market economy contributed to these dynamics after 1989. Despite a large number of analyses at the national level or in particular cities, the impact of this deve...
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Zborník abstraktov, ktorý máte pred sebou, obsahuje príspevky prezentované na X. Medzinárodnom geografickom kolokviu v Danišovciach. Ústav geografie na Prírodovedeckej fakulte UPJŠ v Košiciach toto podujatie organizuje už od svojho vzniku ako platformu na výmenu vedeckých poznatkov, primárne medzi geografmi zo Slovenska a Česka. Aktuálny jubilejný...
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Anaerobic digestion (AD) plants fed by agricultural biowastes are highly relevant renewable energy producers supporting the transition towards sustainable waste management. However, local support for the operation of individual AD plants seems to be highly diverse, case specific and generally insufficient. Following this challenge visible especiall...
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Anaerobic digestion (AD) plants undoubtedly represent an integral and irreplaceable element in rural energy transition and sustainable waste management. In our study, we focus on an advanced understanding of the dynamics behind the changing perceptions of AD plants in host communities in Poland, Slovakia, and the Czech Republic. The surveyed AD pla...
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The energy transformation of EU countries brings challenges in the field of energy policies and forms of state support. Moreover, the introduction of new technologies and the production of energy from renewable sources often face resistance and negative attitudes from the population. Slovakia is a country, which, in addition to decarbonisation, nee...
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Publikácia rozpracováva problematiku bádateľsky orientovaného vyučovania geografie s podporou geopriestorových technológií. Geopriestorové technológie zefektívňujú vyučovací proces v geografii a postupne si nachádzajú svoje miesto predovšetkým v stredoškolskom vzdelávaní. Teoretický rámec podáva čitateľovi poznatky o bádateľsky orientovanom vyučova...
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The paper studies the contemporary migration of Bulgarians to countries of the Visegrad Group (V4) – the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary and Poland. After making a short historical overview of this phenomenon since the 19th century and the contemporary migration of Bulgarians in the years following 1989, the paper analyses the evolution of Bulgar...
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Biogas energy has been introduced into Central and Eastern European countries (CEECs) through various incentives after their accession to the European Union in 2004. This paper contributes to an understanding of the determinants, challenges and perspectives of agricultural biogas plants in three CEECs (Poland, Slovakia, Czech Republic). Using a com...
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The research on international migration is usually focused on the most attractive destinations of migrations or areas of origin of migration flows suffering from considerable migration loss. This paper analyses the development and spatial patterns of migration from Ukraine to Slovakia with a special emphasis on Eastern Slovakia, which is employed a...
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Biogas production has recently expanded across the post-communist Central European countries. This paper addresses the role of biogas plants based on agricultural resources (agri-food waste and agricultural crops) as a new factor of rural development in Poland and Slovakia, and so it contributes to the comprehensive research on effects of agricultu...
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Research on clusters, unlike cluster initiatives, has not been comprehensively addressed in European post-socialist countries. The aim of this paper is to explore and to analyse quantitatively the spatial organisation of economic activities in the wine industry in Slovakia, and to assess it in terms of the concept of an industrial cluster. The wine...
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The aim of this chapter is to asses the impact of migration on the development of the population of Slovak rural regions as well as on the accumulation of their human capital expressed by educational structure of population. The analysis is based on the anonymized data on individual migrations at the level of individual municipalities (LAU2) provid...
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Majority of research on urban development perceive migration as internally homogeneous phenomenon that influences growth and spatial redistribution of population. This enables to identify certain general migration patterns, but understanding regularities and consequences requires looking at internal structure of migration. This paper aims to visual...
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Energy production by agricultural biogas plants has recently recorded considerable growth in Visegrad countries. The development was enhanced by European Union's efforts to increase the proportion of energy produced from renewable sources. The paper aims to assess the role of energy policy in the development of agricultural biogas energy production...
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This paper aims to assess the interregional and intraregional migration processes of population subgroups by educational attainment in the urban region of Bratislava and to identify the patterns of migration using stages of urban development. The study employs anonymized data on individual migrations in Slovakia for the period 1996-2015. The resear...
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Small towns, compared to larger cities, are specific group of municipalities with weaker performance in many spheres of socio-economic development. The aim of the paper is to comprehensively evaluate development of twelve small towns in the region of East Slovakia over the centuries up to present. The paper deals with question how their demographic...
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The paper focuses on the assessment of the impact of natural reproduction and migration of population on the changes in population structure by religiosity within chosen functional urban regions. The regions of Bratislava, Košice and Lučenec were chosen to cover various categories of functional urban regions by spatial extent, population size, econ...
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This article contributes to understanding population migration in Central European urban regions and its connection with urban development. This topic has been addressed in other studies, focused mainly on large cities, particularly Prague, Budapest, and Warsaw. Bratislava, the capital of the Slovak Republic, is a relatively small city at the core...
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The paper focuses on the assessment of the impact of natural reproduction and migration of population on the changes in population structure by religiosity within chosen functional urban regions. The regions of Bratislava, Košice and Lučenec were chosen to cover various categories of functional urban regions by spatial extent, population size, econ...
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The article is focused on the introduction and categorization of various approaches to rurality, and the identification and delimitation of rural areas in Visegrad countries. Three substantively different groups of conceptualizations and definitions of rural and rurality are described as follows: functional definitions, rural as locality (politi...
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The aim of this article is to analyze various methods and approaches to peripherality, and to introduce proposals for delimitation of peripheral areas in Visegrad countries. First, the content of approaches to the identification of peripherality is assessed, followed by emphasis on the role of spatial scale in the delimitation of peripheral areas....
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The paper focuses on the changes in the processes of spatial redistribution of population in connection with the changes in the educational structure of population. The development of both attributes of population is examined by the case study of the urban region of Košice – the second largest city in Slovakia. Similarly with other urban regions of...
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The paper aims to assess the impact of migration and natural reproduction of population to the changes in ethnic structure of population by the case study of three multi-ethnic functional urban regions in Slovakia. All three regions are located at the Slovak-Hungarian ethnic border and are characterized by larger proportion of Slovaks and lower pro...
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The spatial redistribution of population in the context of urban development has not yet been the topic of thorough research in Slovakia. Some research leading to the identification of processes of urban development and their impact to the spatial redistribution of population was carried out only in the Bratislava urban region but the knowledge of...
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Spatial redistribution of population in Central European urban regions has undergone strong transformation since the 1989. One of the most affected indicators has been the migration of population. The aim of this presentation is to identify the role of migration in the total population change and to assess recent trends of redistribution of populat...
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The paper aims to be a contribution to understanding the spatial dimension of relation between economic and demographic phenomena in Slovakia. It assesses the relation between components of total population increase – migration and natural change of population represented by net migration rate and crude rate of natural increase during period 1996 –...
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http://www.suburbanizace.cz/analyzy/Novotny,_L_%282013%29_Urbanny_vyvoj_vo_funkcnom_mestskom_regione_Kosice_v_obdobi_1996-2010_v_kontexte_migracnych_trendov.pdf
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The paper is aimed to the changes of migration trends in the Bratislava functional urban region during the period 1991 – 2010. Migration is the process very sensitively reflecting the political, social and economical transformation after 1989. Following the development of the migration balance in the region and its components – the core and the rin...
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http://www.suburbanizace.cz/analyzy/Novotny,_L._%282011%29_Regiony_najvacsich_slovenskych_miest_v_modeloch_urbanneho_vyvoja.pdf

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