Small towns - Engines of rural development in the South-Moravian region (Czechia): An analysis of the demographic development

Result code in IS VaVaI

<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F62156489%3A43210%2F15%3A43907326" target="_blank" >RIV/62156489:43210/15:43907326 - isvavai.cz</a>

Result on the web

<a href="http://acta.mendelu.cz/63/4/1395/" target="_blank" >http://acta.mendelu.cz/63/4/1395/</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.11118/actaun201563041395" target="_blank" >10.11118/actaun201563041395</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Small towns - Engines of rural development in the South-Moravian region (Czechia): An analysis of the demographic development

Original language description

Small towns as a specific sector of the settlement system are observed from the demographical viewpoint on the territory of the South-Moravian Region (Czechia). Altogether 23 towns with 4,000 to 12,000 inhabitants were analysed. A long-term analysis (1869-2011; population censes) as well as the last development (2008-2012; population balances) are taken into account. A relatively stable role of small towns in the regional settlement system throughout the period when population censes has taken place andpopulation increases in the contemporary period were stated. The first statement can be related to the rural character of the region where small towns play irreplaceable role. The last development shows that the population increase is directly proportional to the distance from the regional metropolis and inverse to the size of small towns. This corresponds to the concept centre - periphery and to current counter-urbanization trends. Recent demographic development supports the role of sm

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

AP - Municipal, regional and transportation planning

OECD FORD branch

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Project

<a href="/en/project/TD020211" target="_blank" >TD020211: Landscape memory as a rural heritage – the changes of Czech cultural landscape in the mental reflection of its inhabitants</a><br>

Continuities

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

Publication year

2015

Confidentiality

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

Name of the periodical

Acta universitatis Agriculturae et Silviculturae Mendelianae Brunensis

ISSN

1211-8516

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

63

Issue of the periodical within the volume

4

Country of publishing house

CZ - CZECH REPUBLIC

Number of pages

11

Pages from-to

1395-1405

UT code for WoS article

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EID of the result in the Scopus database

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