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View article: Disentangling the ‘capacity to act': variegated resources of individuals exerting change agency
Disentangling the ‘capacity to act': variegated resources of individuals exerting change agency Open
In recent decades, attention to the role of actors in regional development has shifted from the role of ‘formal and collective’ actors to the role of individuals in change agency. In doing so, individuals mobilize their capacity to act, wh…
View article: How individuals become agents of change in old industrial regions
How individuals become agents of change in old industrial regions Open
As a result of the decline of key economic sectors, old industrial towns face several development challenges, reinforcing the perception of these places as peripheral. However, even in the context of old industrial towns in the Ústí nad La…
View article: ‘It was my duty to change this place’: motivations of agents of change in Czech old industrial towns
‘It was my duty to change this place’: motivations of agents of change in Czech old industrial towns Open
Although old industrial regions (OIRs) face many development obstacles and suffer from a rather negative image, there are many examples of human agency contributing to the transformation of these regions and the creation of a new developme…
View article: Power relations and local agency: a comparative study of European mining towns
Power relations and local agency: a comparative study of European mining towns Open
Local agency is marked by its structural boundedness including nation state strategies. We investigate the dynamic and mutually constitutive interrelationship between agency and state strategies to better understand and explain change in l…
View article: Review of current approaches to spatially explicit urban vulnerability assessments: hazard complexity, data sources, and cartographic representations
Review of current approaches to spatially explicit urban vulnerability assessments: hazard complexity, data sources, and cartographic representations Open
Socio-ecological hazards are processes that − depending on the vulnerability of societal systems − may have profound adverse impacts. For this reason, the current discourse in disaster risk reduction (DRR) has been experiencing a shift tow…
View article: Winning and losing rural localities of the post-socialist economic restructuring: case study of Czechia
Winning and losing rural localities of the post-socialist economic restructuring: case study of Czechia Open
Retreat from socialism at the turn of the 1980s and 1990s conditioned significant social, economic and environmental changes for former socialist countries. Transformation from the centrally planned economy under the authoritative regime t…
View article: The lawn grew too quickly! Perception of rural idyll by Czech amenity migrants
The lawn grew too quickly! Perception of rural idyll by Czech amenity migrants Open
The arrival of amenity migrants has significant impacts for many rural areas in economic, environmental and social terms. While the causes of relocation from cities to remote rural localities can be generally understood as attempts to chan…
View article: Entrepreneurial in-migration and rural development in Czechia: A challenge of integrating the local and extra-local in rural planning
Entrepreneurial in-migration and rural development in Czechia: A challenge of integrating the local and extra-local in rural planning Open
Abstrakt: Despite the decreasing importance of farming for rural economies, diversification of farming activities is still perceived by the EU as one of the sources of new jobs in rural areas. However, as authors argue, there are more effi…
View article: Assessing the Regionality Degree of Regional Products o The Ustí Region (Czechia)
Assessing the Regionality Degree of Regional Products o The Ustí Region (Czechia) Open
In Czechia, especially in the last decade, there has been an unusual expansion of regional labelling of products, experience, and services. This trend confirms the paradigmatic change in the approach to rural development, as well as the gr…