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This project is supported by the 2020 Lumina Quaeruntur award of the Czech Academy of Sciences. It establishes a new research team - The Centre for the Study of Social Change and the Material Environment (CESCAME) based at the Institute of Sociology.  
Trvání projektu: 2021 - 2025
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In the European Union, there are significant and in many cases growing socio-economic inequalities between regions. Increasingly, arguments are emerging that understand regional inequalities as a risk to social cohesion, a cause of social and political polarities and a source of...
Trvání projektu: 2023 - 2025
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The projects’ goal is to provide a complex picture of local leadership in the environment of the Czech Republic through participation in an international survey, original local research of mayors of municipalities of all sizes, and a secondary analysis. Despite various issues rel...
Trvání projektu: 2016 - 2018
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The research addresses residential segregation in urban areas with a novel method using individual scalable neighbourhoods. The research examines segregation, mobility, and neighbourhood context shaping spatial behaviour of immigrants. All numerically significant minorities in Cz...
Trvání projektu: 2019 - 2021
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The project focuses on Prague allotments as an empirical example of the changing approach to urban nature and urban planning after the fall of socialism. Allotments represent spaces of affection and care. As urban nature, they are spaces of intense political negotiations. The pro...
Trvání projektu: 2016 - 2018
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Environmental degradation, the pandemic and growing food prices highlighted the vulnerability and unsustainability of the current food system. Its resilience can be enhanced by developing closer links with informal sources of food. The recent research shifted the interpretation o...
Trvání projektu: 2024 - 2026
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Post-war housing estates (HEs) represent an important part of the housing stock in postsocialist countries and their development over the past decades is often discussed. Yet, in spite of relatively rich research evidence based on case studies, systematic and comprehensive resear...
Trvání projektu: 2020 - 2022
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The project addresses the issue of social disadvantage of inhabitants of peripheral rural regions. Social disadvantage usually entails a spatial component. The spatial concentration of social disadvantage, exclusion and deprivation and the socio-spatial mechanisms that influence...
Trvání projektu: 2015 - 2017
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The aim of the project is to provide knowledge on possible deficits of amenities in rural communities, as well as on the importance of such amenities for the local population. The project asks which groups would be hardest hit by loss of some amenities and assesses the function o...
Trvání projektu: 2019 - 2022
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The project focuses on the time and space of homeless persons in relation to conditions of a post-socialistic city. Its goal is to describe characteristics, life and time-space paths and everyday life of homeless people in the context of two Czech cities. The project is unique in...
Trvání projektu: 2015 - 2017
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The aim of this project is to examine local responses to global environmental problems (climate change, soil degradation, food quality, etc.) in terms of social movements and lifestyles. The research activity is carried out within the framework of the Strategy AV 21 Global Confli...
Trvání projektu: 2017 - 2020
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This project was solved within the framework of the AV21 Strategy in the program: Diversity of Life and Health of Ecosystems (ROZE). The aim of the activity was to map out the value orientations, attitudes, motivations and behavior of selected groups to protect the diversity of l...
Trvání projektu: 2016
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At present, Do-It-Yourself culture (DIY) is generally understood as part of the Czech national identity and a Czech national feature, which reflects the nation´s specific historical experience and national memory. Although DIY as a Czech national feature refers to the everyday ex...
Trvání projektu: 2018 - 2020
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Projekt se věnuje analýze prostorové dostupnosti středních škol v Karlovarském kraji s využitím prostředků hromadné dopravy. Přitom zohledňuje různorodost jednotlivých typů středních škol, tak aby výsledky analýzy měly dostatečnou výpovědní schopnost pro osoby aspirující na různé...
Trvání projektu: 2022