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Authors: Večerník, Jiří
The article witnesses about fast development of consumption in the Czech Republic after 1989. First, basic features of consumption under the communism are exposed. Second, the likely impact of transition on the economic situation of households is discussed. Third, changes in patt...
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Authors: Lux, Martin
The article provides social statistics concerning the main changes in theconsumption behaviour of Czech households between 1990 and 1997. The descriptionis based on a comparison with the situation and trends in the European Unioncountries. The article analyses changes in the infl...
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Authors: Buchtele, Roman, Cudlínová, Eva, Lapka, Miloslav, Sagapova, Nikola, Krásnická, Martina, Vávra, Jan, Dvořáková Líšková, Zuzana
The analysis is based on a sample of 1015 citizens from Czechia. The cognitive energy literacy index (CELI), based on the knowledge of the energy mix in electricity production and the knowledge of the import/export of electricity in Czechia, is constructed in this article. The re...
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Authors: Smith, Joe, Kostelecký, Tomáš, Jehlička, Petr
This paper questions assumptions about the relationship between class formation, sustainability and patterns of consumption. The empirical elements of the research are based upon qualitative and quantitative time-series research into food self-provisioning and ‘quiet sustai...
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Authors: Loquenz, Jan, Šimon, Martin
This paper seeks to introduce readers to a recent trend in migration research. Amenity migration is an emerging concept that focuses on ‘better-environment-seeking’ migration. Firstly, we discuss the basis of amenity migration, its primary driving forces and its...
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Authors: Smutná, Zdeňka, Vávra, Jan, Duží, Barbora
Introduction: The Covid-19 pandemic affected food systems in many countries and emphasized a lot of already existing social, economic and environmental agri-food problems. Alternative food networks (AFNs), praised for their ability to improve the food systems, were under stress,...
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Authors: Marcin Baron, Artur Ochojski, Adam Polko, Katarzyna Warzecha, Martin Šimon
The study challenges cost analysis of local public service across countries of Central Europe. The relations of economic features and demographic change characteristics have been investigated. Central Europe Programme co-financed the initiative as its strategic project...
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Authors: Šimon, Martin, Mikešová, Renata, Eds.
The book presents an introductory information about demographic change in Central Europe. It is particularly targeted at practicioners and policy makers at local and regional level who deal with impacts of changing populations in their work. It presents an overview of population...
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Authors: Klicperova, Martina, Jaroslav Košťál, Jiří Vinopal
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Authors: Šafr, J.
Cultural consumption and social distinction in the Czech Republicin P. Zahrádka (ed.). 2014. Consumer culture: history, theory and research. Praha: ACADEMIA.The chapter deals with the link between consumer preferences and vertical – class position in contemporary Czech society. T...
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Authors: Chorvát, I., J. Šafr (eds.)
Chorvát, I., J. Šafr (eds.). 2019. Leisure, Society and Culture in the Czech Republic and Slovakia. Praha: Sociologické nakladatelství SLON.SummaryLeisure is often the value to which people attach importance in their lives. This book deals with leisure time at the dawn of the 21s...
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Authors: Kolářová, Marta
The article focuses on self-reliance and DIY in eco-gardens. Self-reliance does not only includes food self-provisioning, but also housing, energy, making objects for everyday use, healing and homeschooling.  
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Authors: Decker, Anja
Rural studies have shown considerable interest in the implications the eventization of agriculture has for both rural communities and the agri-food system in the Global North. To contribute to the debate on the transformative potential of agri-food events such as farm festivals a...
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Authors: Daněk, P., Sovová, L., Jehlička, P. Vávra, J., Lapka, M
While alternative food networks (AFNs) have become the leading conceptualisation of sustainable food systems, vibrant scholarship on food self-provisioning (FSP) in Central and Eastern Europe has remained confined to the geopolitical region it investigates. This article brings th...
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Authors: Večerník, Jiří
Cílem této knihy je představit laické veřejnosti přístupným způsobem práci sociologů, demografů, ekonomů, politologů a geografů, kteří působí v Sociologickém ústavu AV ČR, v.v.i. Autorům a autorkám nejde o předložení ucelené zprávy o české společnosti, ale spíše o odpovědi na něk...
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Authors: Jehlička, Petr, Smith, J
This chapter introduces different explanations for high rates of growing and sharing food outside the market system in the Czech Republic based in social anthropological research. The authors have extended that work with their own qualitative and quantitative research over a peri...
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Authors: Šafr, Jiří
The author address two associated issues concerning culture consumption and stratification: hypothesis social classes in the Czech Republic are intensively associated with distinct lifestyles and social sources of cultural omnivorousness. In the introductory part cultural consump...
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Authors: Smith, J., Jehlička, Petr
This paper investigates notable examples of sustainable lifestyles in relation to food systems. It explores the surprisingly neglected case of widely practiced and environmentally sustainable food self-provisioning in post-socialist Central and Eastern Europe. Our argument is roo...
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Authors: Vinopal, Jiří
The article informs of the result of Public Opinion Research Centre [Institute of Sociology of Academy of Sciences of Czech Republic] 2007 survey that is a part of long-term project of the place of beer and pubs in Czech society. It deals with the topics like consumption and popu...
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Authors: McGreevy, S., Rupprecht, Ch., Niles, D., Wiek, A., Carolan, M., Kallis, G., Kantamaturapoj, K., Mangnus, A., Jehlička, Petr, et al
Sustainable agrifood systems are critical to averting climate-driven social and ecological disasters, overcoming the growth paradigm and redefining the interactions of humanity and nature in the twenty-first century. This Perspective describes an agenda and examples for comprehen...

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