Conceptualising patterns of spatial flows: Five decades of advances in the definition and use of functional regions

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Result on the web

<a href="https://www.degruyter.com/downloadpdf/j/mgr.2016.24.issue-2/mgr-2016-0006/mgr-2016-0006.xml" target="_blank" >https://www.degruyter.com/downloadpdf/j/mgr.2016.24.issue-2/mgr-2016-0006/mgr-2016-0006.xml</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/mgr-2016-0006" target="_blank" >10.1515/mgr-2016-0006</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Conceptualising patterns of spatial flows: Five decades of advances in the definition and use of functional regions

Original language description

Some fifty years in the development of ideas about the definition and use of functional regions are elaborated in this article, as an introduction to this Special Issue of the Moravian Geographical Reports. The conceptual basis for functional regions is discussed, initially in relation to region-organising interactions and their behavioural foundations. This paper presents an approach to functional regions which presumes that such regions objectively exist and that they are based on more or less tangible processes (however, a different view of regions is also briefly described). A typology of functional regions is presented and the development of methods for finding a definition of functional regions is discussed, as well as a typology for these methods. The final part of this article stresses the importance of functional regions in geographical research, and introduces some emerging new prospects in the study of functional regions.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_x - Unclassified - Peer-reviewed scientific article (Jimp, Jsc and Jost)

CEP classification

DE - Earth magnetism, geodesy, geography

OECD FORD branch

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Project

<a href="/en/project/GA16-13502S" target="_blank" >GA16-13502S: Spatial uncertainty and fuzzy regional systems: identification, analysis and implications of pulsating functional regions</a><br>

Continuities

P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)

Publication year

2016

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Moravian Geographical Reports

ISSN

1210-8812

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

24

Issue of the periodical within the volume

2

Country of publishing house

CZ - CZECH REPUBLIC

Number of pages

10

Pages from-to

2-11

UT code for WoS article

000391945500001

EID of the result in the Scopus database

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