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| MaRoCoHazard - Marginalized Roma concentrations in the context of natural hazards and social inequality | |
| Duration: | 1. 7. 2023 - 30. 6. 2027 |
| Evidence number: | APVV-22-0428 |
| Program: | APVV |
| Project leader: | Ing. Kidová Anna, PhD. |
| SAS cosolvers: | Ficeri Ondrej, PhD., Mgr. Filčák Richard, MSc. PhD., Mgr. Hrustič Tomáš, PhD., Mgr. Jančovič Marián, Khan Akhtar Zeb, MS, Mgr. Kohoutová Klara, PhD., Mgr. Labaš Peter, Mgr. Michaleje Lukáš, PhD., RNDr. Michálek Anton, CSc., Mgr. Polačková Zuzana, M.A., PhD., RNDr. Solín Ľubomír, CSc., Mgr. Škobla Daniel, PhD., Mgr. Zachar Podolinská Tatiana, PhD. |
| Annotation: | Marginalized Roma concentrations in environmentally unstable areas (floods, landslides, contamination) together with their social status and population trend represent a very current research challenge in the context of increasing society\'s resilience, especially to flood risk. The present project responds to this challenge and the research focuses mainly on the analysis of: i) flood exposure of Roma settlements, whether due to the impact of morphological changes in river channels or evolution trends of segregated Roma settlements, ii) vulnerability of marginalized Roma concentrations to flood risk due to their social status, iii) public policies in terms of their effectiveness to help Roma communities in settlements to cope with the negative consequences of flood hazard, iv) the natural environment around Roma settlements in the context of its impact on flood risk compared to the rest / majority population. Research will be carried out at national, regional and local levels. Methodologically, the project is based on data obtained by multitemporal analysis of remote sensing data, morphometric analysis of georelief, data on socio-economic and spatial-functional relationships and data obtained from field research. |
| Detection of landscape diversity and its changes in Slovakia based on remote sensing data in the context of the European Green Deal | |
| Duration: | 1. 1. 2023 - 31. 12. 2026 |
| Evidence number: | 2/0043/23 |
| Program: | VEGA |
| Project leader: | Ing. Szatmári Daniel, PhD. |
| SAS cosolvers: | Doc. RNDr. Feranec Ján, DrSc., Mgr. Goga Tomáš, PhD., RNDr. Kopecká Monika, PhD., Ing. Nováček Jozef, Polyvach Kateryna, PhD., Mgr. Rosina Konštantín, PhD. |
| Annotation: | The Project is focused on the development of innovative approaches to the processing and visualisation of satellite data in the research of landscape diversity. The output of the Project will be the proposal of methodology for automated classification of landscape diversity by a set of indicators of the agricultural landscape composition, indicators of the agricultural landscape configuration, and indicators of changes in the landscape mosaic. The methodical procedure will be verified in selected experimental sites with various landscape types. Results of the Project will be applicable to monitoring the implementation of measures stipulated by the European Green Deal and other EU Strategy Documents. |
| MEADOW - Species-rich Carpathian grasslands: mapping, history, drivers of change and conservation | |
| Duration: | 1. 7. 2022 - 30. 6. 2026 |
| Evidence number: | APVV-21-0226 |
| Program: | APVV |
| Project leader: | Mgr. Pazúr Róbert, PhD. |
| SAS cosolvers: | Mgr. Belák Andrej, PhD., RNDr. Dúbravková Daniela, PhD., Mgr. Galvánek Dobromil, PhD., Mgr. Goga Tomáš, PhD., Mgr. Ivascu Alina - Sorina, Mgr. Opravil Šimon, Mgr., MgA. Panáková Jaroslava, PhD., Mgr. Pazúrová Zuzana, PhD., RNDr. Skokanová Katarína, PhD., Mgr. Škodová Iveta, PhD. |
| Annotation: | European agriculture is at a crossroads. Continuing the industrial intensification of agricultural production and the associated abandonment of marginal land equals continuing the direct negative environmental impacts on landscape quality and further loss of biodiversity. The second available option is adopting the quality of the landscape and its sustainability as essential criteria for optimization and management of agricultural production. The main aim of our transdisciplinary project is to support this second option with practical scientific knowledge on environmental and societal potentials regarding sustainable grassland management in the Carpathians using traditional agricultural practices, as well as on which social and institutional features might help embedding such management within the modern Slovak economy. The main objectives of the project are: 1) to identify and map biodiversity-rich grassland areas in the Carpathians and related local environmental and social factors; 2) identify and map areas with high environmental and social potential for successful grassland restoration in Slovakia; and 3) propose a national strategy for state and non-governmental support regarding ecological restoration, conservation and management of the identified grassland areas. We intend to reach such a comprehensive and practical understanding through a collaborative combination of the latest available earth observation data for the Carpathian region, analytical methods and tools, but also pioneering field research; all in parallel on behalf of the scientific fields of botany, ecology, geography, remote sensing and social anthropology. The planned outputs of the project – scientific studies and the proposal of a national strategy to support species-rich grasslands – can, in addition to direct use by contracted domestic recipient organisations (MoE SR and BROZ), also serve as a template for applied research focusing on ecological grassland restoration in Europe and beyond. |
| SUB-KIK - Suburbanization: Community, identity and everydayness | |
| Duration: | 1. 8. 2021 - 31. 7. 2025 |
| Evidence number: | APVV-20-0432 |
| Program: | APVV |
| Project leader: | Mgr. Šuška Pavel, PhD. |
| SAS cosolvers: | Prof. PhDr. Beňušková Zuzana, CSc., Mgr. Bilková Kristína, PhD., Mgr. Gyárfáš Lutherová Soňa, PhD., Mgr. Hlinčíková Miroslava, PhD., Mgr. Kinczer Miroslava, Mgr. Rišová Katarína, PhD., Mgr. Šveda Martin, PhD., Mgr. Voľanská Ľubica, PhD., PhDr. Vrzgulová Monika, CSc., Mgr. Výbošťok Ján, PhD. |
| Annotation: | The general objective of the proposed project is to expand knowledge about the current process of suburbanization in the hinterland of the capital. The study of suburbanization has so far been dominated by quantitative analysis of basic processes (migration, construction, changes in landscape structures), which are viewed from the perspective of the metropolitan area. However, this dynamic environment is characterized by social transformations, negotiation, and creation of new identities, reassessment of the relationship to the localities, and (re)definition of individual perception of a home. Therefore, the main objective of the project is to analyze the specific place-making processes and relations, realized by participants with different socio-demographic characteristics (such as age, gender, ethnicity, religious affiliation, social status and other) and related social and individual identities. These are further reflected in their individual preferences, ideas, or norms and confronted with the socio-cultural and institutional context in the suburbs. The suburban space has a specific position in terms of socio-cultural aspects. On the one hand, a heterogeneous flow of immigrants with different experiences, worldviews, and social status are evident, and on the other, it is a space where these incoming identities meet and interact. The output of this interaction can often be an indeterminate hybrid conglomerate, or the transition to some kind of neoplasm, an alloy formed by combining and remelting these initial cultural elements. There is a negotiation and creation of new identities, a reassessment of the relationship to the locality, community, and redefining the individual and collective experience of home. The central category of home is not a static, but on the contrary, a procedural - and variable phenomenon. |
| JASKO - Nurseries and kindergartens for everyone? Insights into pre-school education in Slovakia from the perspectives of spatial accessibility and social justice | |
| Duration: | 1. 7. 2022 - 30. 6. 2025 |
| Evidence number: | APVV-21-0286 |
| Program: | APVV |
| Project leader: | Mgr. Sládeková Madajová Michala, PhD. |
| SAS cosolvers: | Mgr. Rišová Katarína, PhD., Mgr. Šveda Martin, PhD., Mgr. Výbošťok Ján, PhD. |
| Annotation: | The project responds to the current topic of the introduction of compulsory pre-primary education. In such a necessary and socially sensitive area as pre-school education, authorities should be aware of spatial, temporal and socioeconomic consequences. The project identifies the main causes of low share of children included in pre-school education and the insufficient capacity of kindergartens, evaluates the measures taken so far and summarizes the problems that pre-school children, their parents and local governments will face from September 2021 when the law on compulsory pre-school attendance of 5-year-olds entered into force. Given the theoretical nature of the analysis carried out so far and given the fact that compulsory attendance in many regions is likely to be at the expense of younger (mainly 3-year-old) children, the project will focus not only on kindergartens included in the Network of Schools and Educational Facilities but on all care facilities, including those which facilitate the transition to pre-school education in kindergartens. The primary goal is to provide a comprehensive view of the issue of pre-school education in Slovakia from the aspect of spatial accessibility and social justice. Based on research into the heterogeneity of pre-primary education facilities, the environment in which they are located the project will present several concepts of commuting areas based on modeling both temporal and spatial accessibility by using more sophisticated mathematical methods, taking into account the travel-to-work commuting and individual decision strategies. The analysis of the current state, the design of solutions and the forecast of future development will create a comprehensive analytical document that will allow the adoption of effective and timely strategic measures at various levels (individual, local, regional, national). |
| Land surface topography – a source of data on the tectonic evolution of the Western Carpathians in the Pliocene-Quaternary period | |
| Duration: | 1. 1. 2021 - 31. 12. 2024 |
| Evidence number: | 2/0052/21 |
| Program: | VEGA |
| Project leader: | RNDr. Prokešová Roberta, PhD. |
| SAS cosolvers: | RNDr. Horáčková Šárka, PhD., Mgr. Novotný Ján, PhD., Mgr. Sládek Ján, PhD. |
| Annotation: | Dynamics of the Western Carpathians landscape in the Pliocene-Quaternary period will be studied to identify the expression of neotectonics as one of the potential controls of the relief evolution. Methods of quantitative geomorphometry will be applied to extract data (topographic variables and morphometric indices) from digitalelevation models (DEMs) of various resolutions. Additional data (GIS layers and databases) for spatial and geostatistical analyses will be obtained by completing and adapting available digital data (geological and geophysical maps, climate maps), laboratory analyses and fieldworks. Analysis of multi-source data will be usedto specify the potential drivers of the Western Carpathians landscape evolution in various temporal and spatial scales. The results could be used as a template for effective sampling to quantify rates of uplift and erosion by numerical dating methods and assessment of geohazards (seismic hazard, landslide risks) or landscape sensitivity to future climate change. |
| Assessment of ecosystem services and their adaptation into the strategic planning and future development of the national parks and their hinterland | |
| Duration: | 1. 1. 2022 - 31. 12. 2024 |
| Evidence number: | 2/0159/22 |
| Program: | VEGA |
| Project leader: | Mgr. Pazúr Róbert, PhD. |
| SAS cosolvers: | Mgr. Pazúrová Zuzana, PhD., Mgr. Šuška Pavel, PhD. |
| Annotation: | The goals of the proposed project are to assess the current ecosystem services in the national parks in Slovakia, trade-offs of their different future development and its hinterland and their implementation into the strategic planning. We will particularly focus on the Tatra national park and its closest hinterland as this area is facing in recent years an uncontrolled development pressure related to the development of housing and tourism infrastructure and climate change. Integrating landscape ecology, remote sensing and social sciences we will provide a scientifically sound baseline about the different pathways of landscape development. Integrated knowledge will be provided to the stakeholder to facilitate the decision making process and define the sustainable development of the national parks and their hinterland. Proposed workflow, maps and models will be made available to serve as a template for the assessment of ecosystem services, future scenarios and spatial planning, which may be used elsewhere. |
| The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on changes in consumption and its manifestations in new patterns of consumer behavior in Slovakia | |
| Duration: | 1. 1. 2022 - 31. 12. 2024 |
| Evidence number: | 2/0144/22 |
| Program: | VEGA |
| Project leader: | Mgr. Bilková Kristína, PhD. |
| SAS cosolvers: | Mgr. Čuláková Katarína, RNDr. Michálek Anton, CSc., Mgr. Rišová Katarína, PhD. |
| Annotation: | Consumption affects each of us and is constantly changing. It is influenced by various factors and currently the most important is the global COVID-19 pandemic. To stop the virus spreading, we were forced to change our typical activities and the consumption associated with them. The project monitors current trends in society and new challenges, such as the pandemic. One of the research topics are the regionally differentiated impacts of a pandemic on various areas of our lives. The project is focused on the evaluation and analysis of the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic. Research activities will be aimed at identifying and quantifying the effects of a pandemic in retail and services in Slovakia and will respond to changes in consumption patterns using several methods and unique data. The results of the research will find application in other crisis situations, which will certainly appear in the future. The question is not whether it will appear, but when another crisis will arise which affects consumption. |
| Scholarships for excellent researchers threatened by the war conflict in Ukraine | |
| Duration: | 12. 9. 2022 - 11. 9. 2024 |
| Evidence number: | 09I03-03-V01-00021 |
| Program: | Iné projekty |
| Project leader: | Polyvach Kateryna, PhD. |
| Project website: | http://www.geography.sav.sk/veda-a-vyskum/projekty/next-generation_ua-22/ |
| ALTERCONSUM - Alternative food networks: a shift from consumerism to sustainable consumption | |
| Duration: | 1. 7. 2021 - 30. 6. 2024 |
| Evidence number: | APVV-20-0302 |
| Program: | APVV |
| Project leader: | Mgr. Bilková Kristína, PhD. |
| SAS cosolvers: | Mgr. Čuláková Katarína, RNDr. Michálek Anton, CSc., Mgr. Šuška Pavel, PhD. |
| Annotation: | Consumption and consumer behavior are the subject of studies in various scientific disciplines, including geography. Consumption can prove to be conventional or alternative. Conventional consumption is currently more dominant and can lead to consumerism. The opposite is alternative consumption. It is consumption in the intentions of sustainable development. Alternative food networks can be characterized as a food system that is opposite to the conventional, mainstream. However, consumption cannot be considered as a simple expression of consumer demand for goods, but can be understood as an expression of consumer identity. The project will focus on consumption and consumer behavior research as a result of a changing society (shift from consumerism to sustainable consumption). An example is the discovery of a possible transformation from a utilitarian to a hedonistic consumer and vice versa. Or consumer reactions to the current pandemic situation. The authors will look for answers to the questions: How, where and why have consumers\' shopping behavior changed in connection with the COVID-19 pandemic? The concepts of sustainable consumption will be explored: responsible and conscious consumption and anti-consumption in Slovakia. The contribution of the project will be new knowledge in understanding consumer behavior in Slovakia. From the point of view of producers (retailers), the added value will be recommendations for the use of academic knowledge in planning practice (eg the definition of the Farmers\' Market Code). Despite the relevance of these research topics in geography, only marginal attention is paid to these topics in the Slovak academic community. We believe that the acquired knowledge will contribute to the development of issues in this research area. A relatively young research team is involved in the project, and the benefits of their cooperation are several research and publication activities focused on consumption, which will be followed by this project. |
| METELCO - Mapping population distribution and mobility in Slovakia using mobile network data | |
| Duration: | 1. 7. 2021 - 30. 6. 2024 |
| Evidence number: | APVV-20-0586 |
| Program: | APVV |
| Project leader: | Mgr. Rosina Konštantín, PhD. |
| SAS cosolvers: | Mgr. Goga Tomáš, PhD., Mgr. Hurbánek Pavol, PhD., Mgr. Sládeková Madajová Michala, PhD., Mgr. Šveda Martin, PhD., Mgr. Výbošťok Ján, PhD. |
| Annotation: | Despite the fact that we live in an era characterized by a massive development of information and communicationtechnologies current knowledge of population counts and distribution is still, paradoxically, very limited. There areseveral motives for challenging the relevance of conventional population datasets. In particular, both theoccupational and private activities of the population are less place-bound compared to the past. Furthermore, thegrowing fluctuation and individual mobility of the population have also decoupled the place of residence from the workplace and extended the commute distances. Existing spatial datasets refer only to ‘residential’ population distribution, and more complete datasets reflecting spatiotemporal population variations are still lacking. Exploring and combining new and unconventional datasets can be useful to map spatiotemporal population distribution and to fill data gaps. The mobile phone data has surfaced in recent years as one of the big data sources with a lot of promise for its use in official statistics. Although mobile data does not provide the accuracy of the census, a comparison of this new data source with the census and the population register shows a high correlation and much more dynamism in the aspect of rapid changes. So, in terms of timeliness, quick and short-time indicators could be derived from mobile phone data as an additional source of population information. The project aims at developingand implementing a consistent and validated methodology to produce multi-temporal population distribution for Slovakia by utilizing the localization data of the mobile network. Such datasets will expand the knowledge base of spatiotemporal population patterns across the country. Moreover, multi-temporal population grids can be a useful and straightforward input to several models, particularly transport, land use, economic and environmental models. |
| Generational differences in shopping behavior of Slovak consumers during COVID-19 pandemic | |
| Duration: | 1. 1. 2023 - 31. 12. 2023 |
| Evidence number: | APP0403 |
| Program: | DoktoGranty |
| Project leader: | Mgr. Čuláková Katarína |
| Assessment of the impact of extreme hydrological phenomena on the landscape in the context of a changing climate | |
| Duration: | 1. 1. 2021 - 31. 12. 2023 |
| Evidence number: | 2/0086/21 |
| Program: | VEGA |
| Project leader: | Ing. Kidová Anna, PhD. |
| SAS cosolvers: | Mgr. Labaš Peter, RNDr. Lehotský Milan, CSc., Mgr. Michaleje Lukáš, PhD., Mgr. Rusnák Miloš, PhD., Mgr. Sládeková Madajová Michala, PhD., RNDr. Solín Ľubomír, CSc. |
| Annotation: | The project is focused on assessing the impacts of extreme hydrological events (drought/flood) on the riverine and rural landscape. In the analysis of changes in the riverine landscape, emphasis is placed on a comprehensive analysis of the processes between extreme hydrological phenomena and the bio-geomorphological response of river ecosystems. In relation to the rural landscape, the potential of river channels, land cover and land use to mitigate the effects of extreme hydrological phenomena is assessed and the ability of rural landscape communities to cope with the negative consequences of these phenomena is analyzed.The research applies multi-temporal analysis of remote sensing data, spatial analysis of individual components of the landscape, as well as field and questionnaire surveys. The obtained results will allow the evaluation of the development of these vulnerable ecosystems with regard to socio-economic activities as well as the design of development scenarios in the context of a changing climate. |
| Evaluation of uneven spatial development: causes and consequences of socio-economic growth, stagnation or decline of selected localities and regions | |
| Duration: | 1. 1. 2021 - 31. 12. 2023 |
| Evidence number: | 2/0019/21 |
| Program: | VEGA |
| Project leader: | RNDr. Székely Vladimír, CSc. |
| SAS cosolvers: | Mgr. Michniak Daniel, PhD., Mgr. Novotný Ján, PhD. |
| Annotation: | Uneven spatial development, which is usually expressed by inter- and intraregional disparities, is a natural and dynamically changing phenomenon. "Conditio sine qua non" of its genesis and existence is an uneven spatial distribution of specific territorial capital, whose creation, perception and utilization is determined, in addition to thegeographical location itself, mainly by a particular historical moment and corresponding numerous global and local decisions of important actors of development. The object of research, spatial distribution and interaction of inhabitants and economic activities thus reflects the impact of political, economic, social, environmental and cultural changes of endogenous and exogenous nature, whose interaction causes objective changes in spatial organization and polarization of society. The aim of the project is to identify these changes and to critically evaluate the manifestations, causes and consequences of the uneven socio-economic development of localities and regions. |
| Spatially differentiated impacts and manifestations of COVID-19 in Slovakia | |
| Duration: | 1. 1. 2021 - 31. 12. 2023 |
| Evidence number: | 2/0037/21 |
| Program: | VEGA |
| Project leader: | RNDr. Michálek Anton, CSc. |
| SAS cosolvers: | Mgr. Bilková Kristína, PhD., Mgr. Hurbánek Pavol, PhD., Mgr. Výbošťok Ján, PhD. |
| Annotation: | The global pandemic of COVID-19 has already caused major loss of life, a recession in the world economy and many other problems. In Slovakia, too, we will feel the consequences of a pandemic in all spheres of socio-economic life for a long time. It is already clear that the manifestations and impacts of the pandemic will be highly spatially differentiated and we assume that the underdeveloped regions with the largest proportion of vulnerable population groups will perform the worst. The project is focused on quantification of spatially differentiated manifestations and impacts of COVID-19 disease in regions and selected areas of Slovakia. The originality of the project is based on its focus on issues that have not yet been addressed in Slovak and worldwide research. It is clear from the specific focus and nature of the project that it will bring principally new knowledge and create a framework for further research into the issue. |
| Relating grassland use intensity components to the temporal and phenological patterns of Earth observation data | |
| Duration: | 1. 1. 2023 - 31. 12. 2023 |
| Evidence number: | APP0382 |
| Program: | DoktoGranty |
| Project leader: | Mgr. Opravil Šimon |
| Relationships of Paradigms in Slovak Geographical Thought: Competition, Indifference or Cooperation? | |
| Duration: | 1. 1. 2021 - 31. 12. 2023 |
| Evidence number: | 2/0024/21 |
| Program: | VEGA |
| Project leader: | Prof. RNDr. Ira Vladimír, CSc. |
| SAS cosolvers: | Prof. RNDr. Huba Mikuláš, CSc., Prof. RNDr. Matlovič René, PhD., LL.M. |
| Annotation: | The project is based on identification of discontinuities in geographical thought in the world and their reception in geographical thought in Slovakia. Reflecting on the development of geographic thought in the world, Slovak geography has evolved into a multi-paradigmatic form. The main objective of the project will be to investigate the relationships between coexisting paradigms represented by paradigmatic communities) and the factors thatcondition them. The fundamental issue is the nature of the inter-paradigmatic relationship constellation along the axis: competitive - indifferent - cooperative. The main interest will be focused on the research of existing cooperation of paradigms in solving research problems in Slovak geography and on the analysis of objective andsubjective dimension of barriers / obstacles of inter-paradigmatic cooperation. The possibilities for productive interference of paradigmatic perspectives in Slovak geography will be evaluated. |
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| Duration: | 1. 1. 2022 - 31. 12. 2022 |
| Evidence number: | APP0279 |
| Program: | DoktoGranty |
| Project leader: | Mgr. Čuláková Katarína |
| Annotation: | Consumption affects each of us, it is a part of our daily lives and is constantly influenced by various factors. Currently, the most significant of these is the worldwide COVID-19 pandemic, which has affected all aspects of our lives. In an effort to stop or to slow down the virus spreading, the government has taken various measures, including a lockdown, that changed our behavior. The pandemic also hit retail hard, with retailers having to comply with new regulations and consumers changing shopping behavior patterns. The project is focused on evaluating the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the urban and rural retail environment in Slovakia using unique data from the eKasa system. Based on the created database, it will be possible to point out new trends in retail over the last two years and analyze the impact of the pandemic on the development of retail in urban and rural areas. |
| Land cover dynamics as indicator of changes in landscape | |
| Duration: | 1. 1. 2019 - 31. 12. 2022 |
| Evidence number: | 2/0023/19 |
| Program: | VEGA |
| Project leader: | RNDr. Kopecká Monika, PhD. |
| SAS cosolvers: | Doc. RNDr. Feranec Ján, DrSc., Mgr. Goga Tomáš, PhD., Ing. Nováček Jozef, Mgr. Rosina Konštantín, PhD., Ing. Szatmári Daniel, PhD. |
| Annotation: | The noticeable dynamics is one of the indicators of the changing cultural landscape and its eco-system functions. Identification of these changes requires application of new unconventional approaches facilitating the operative recording, analysis and assessment. The aim of the proposed project is to study the possibilities of application of image records obtained by remote sensing to identification of LC changes and estimation of possibilities to apply such information as indicators of changes in qualitative properties of landscape. Special emphasis will be put on the assessment of changes in urban landscape which cause changes of urban microclimate, changes in agricultural landscape which lead to its abandonment and disappearance of permanent grassland. Analyses will be based on interpretation of image records produced by Sentinel 1 and Sentinel 2 satellites and selected data layers of the Urban Atlas (UA), High Resolution Layers (HRL), and the ), and the Land Parcel Identification System (LPIS). |
| Urban and suburban environments: a space for innovations and alternatives in the retail and services sector | |
| Duration: | 1. 1. 2019 - 31. 12. 2021 |
| Evidence number: | 2/0113/19 |
| Program: | VEGA |
| Project leader: | Mgr. Bilková Kristína, PhD. |
| SAS cosolvers: | Mgr. Čuláková Katarína, RNDr. Michálek Anton, CSc., Mgr. Rišová Katarína, PhD., Mgr. Šuška Pavel, PhD. |
| Other cosolvers: | Križan |
| Annotation: | The sector of retail and services can be considered the most dynamic economy sector, comprising an integral part of everyday life. In this context, the project focuses on assessing the urban and suburban environment as a space for research of innovations and alternatives in retail as well as in services. Innovative processes mean processes that have started to appear in the last decade. Such processes include, for example, online shopping. The so-called SMS marketing or use of mobile operators´ data as an innovative way of solving problems can be a strong motivation to purchase and use services. Alternative processes are processes that are in contrast with globalization, e.g. research of community gardens, farmer´s markets etc.. Preferring Slovak, local, organic and eco-products and services has been on the increase, and consumers adapt to this trend in different ways. The question is to what extent and how it is the case also in the Slovak urban and suburban environments. |
| Discontinuities in the development of the Slovak geographical thought in the 20th and 21st centuries: Objective and subjective dimensions | |
| Duration: | 1. 1. 2018 - 31. 12. 2020 |
| Evidence number: | VEGA 1/0049/18 |
| Program: | VEGA |
| Project leader: | Prof. RNDr. Ira Vladimír, CSc. |
| Annotation: | Objective of this project is the comparative and contextual analysis of the development of geographical thought in Slovakia and in the world geography in the 20th and 21st century with special regard to its discontinuity. Identification of discontinuities in the world geographical thought is followed by the rate of their reception in the Slovak geographical thought. Convergent and divergent features of their development and the time shift will be pointed to. Autochthonous discontinuities in the Slovak geographical thought, if that is the case, are studied with special stress on the objective dimension of discontinuities, particularly the actors, canonical texts, internal and external contexts. However, their subjective dimension including the perception and assessment of discontinuities by selected representatives of various generations of professional Slovak geographers is also studied and their ideas of future progress of geography in Slovakia in the context of the world geography will be exposed. |
| Evolution of localities and regions: new theoretical and empirical approaches to understanding of spatial development paradigms | |
| Duration: | 1. 1. 2018 - 31. 12. 2020 |
| Evidence number: | VEGA 2/0095/18 |
| Program: | VEGA |
| Project leader: | RNDr. Székely Vladimír, CSc. |
| SAS cosolvers: | Mgr. Michniak Daniel, PhD., Mgr. Novotný Ján, PhD., RNDr. Szőllős Ján, CSc. |
| Annotation: | Evolutionary economic geography offers a unique way of thinking which responds to the dynamic changes in society. Its endeavour to attain the complexity greatly contributes to comprehension of the differentiated spatial development. The objective of the project is to exploit the assets of its theoretical, methodological and intellectual apparatus employed for the sake of deeper cognition and explanation of the causes of the Slovak, by own history determined, spatial heterogeneity. The core and simultaneously sealant of the project is identification of the key developmental and development threatening stimuli from selected sectors of national economy (transport,tourism, energetics, ...) followed by the analysis of reaction and evolution of hierarchically created spatial units. The direction, content and scope of developmental changes in localities and regions will be partially confronted with the new regional policy of the EU which declares orientation to their smart, sustainable and inclusive growth. |
| Evaluation of the transformation of natural and socio-cultural diversity of the cultural landscape in Slovakia (on example of selected areas) | |
| Duration: | 1. 1. 2018 - 31. 12. 2020 |
| Evidence number: | VEGA 2/0013/18 |
| Program: | VEGA |
| Project leader: | RNDr. Hanušin Ján, CSc. |
| SAS cosolvers: | Prof. RNDr. Huba Mikuláš, CSc., Prof. RNDr. Ira Vladimír, CSc., Doc. RNDr. Lacika Ján, CSc., Ing. Štefunková Dagmar, PhD., Mgr. Šuška Pavel, PhD., Mgr. Uher Ana |
| Annotation: | The cultural landscape is a testimony to the current way of life and also the materialization of long-term interventions of our ancestors to the landscape, manifested in the form of historical cultural landscape. In addition to the material dimension the historical cultural landscape (HCL) has an intangible socio-cultural dimension,whichis determined by the historical context of its formation and by the way its contemporaries perceive its values and functioning. Analysis of terminological inconsistencies and evaluation of the implementation of HCL issues into the Slovak legal system will be the first goal of this project. The methodology of identifying the HCL intypologically different model areas will follow. The main objective will be the demonstration of the methodology for the assessment of natural and socio-cultural diversity of HCL, its comparison with the current cultural landscape,a determination of the level of its transformation and an outline of the possibilities of its preservation. |
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| Duration: | 1. 1. 2020 - 31. 12. 2020 |
| Evidence number: | APP0017 |
| Program: | DoktoGranty |
| Project leader: | Mgr. Goga Tomáš, PhD. |
| Annotation: | In recent decades, abandoned agricultural land has been a major problem in several European countries. It manifests itself in the cessation of agricultural activity in the area, which leads to a loss of active land. It is related to social and economic problems in rural areas, but also unrealised investment projects in suburban zones. Although the reduction in the amount of pesticides used may be positive in intensively used areas, the negative aspects of the abandonment prevail, particularly in areas where meadows and pastures with significant biodiversity potential for both wildlife animals, birds and insects are overgrown.The aim of the project is an automated mapping of abandoned agricultural land using open-access optical and radar satellite data. In the mapping process, we will use object-oriented segmentation methods and classification algorithms using machine learning in the presence of massive hardware support. |
| Integrated Flood Risk Assessment: A Basis for Updating of the Flood Risk Management Plans | |
| Duration: | 1. 1. 2018 - 31. 12. 2020 |
| Evidence number: | VEGA 2/0006/18 |
| Program: | VEGA |
| Project leader: | RNDr. Solín Ľubomír, CSc. |
| SAS cosolvers: | Mgr. Michaleje Lukáš, Mgr. Sládeková Madajová Michala, PhD., RNDr. Solín Ľubomír, CSc. |
| Annotation: | The aim of the project is to present a proposal for updating of the first flood risk management plans formunicipalities of the Myjava District. The update is focused on integrated flood risk assessment which is based onthe idea that evaluating the disaster risk, the social production of vulnerability needs to be considered with at leastthe same importance that is devoted to understanding and addressing natural hazards. The proposed flood riskmanagement plans contain measures to reduce flood hazard which concern the whole basin and not justwatercourses. Moreover, the management includes measures to reduce the vulnerability of households to floodhazard. The third important aspect of updated flood risk management plans is public participation in the processof designing flood prevention measures. Determination of the optimal flood risk management is a result of theassessment of several alternatives. |
| Growing and deepening ineguality in regions of Slovakia and the effects on polarisation of human development | |
| Duration: | 1. 1. 2018 - 31. 12. 2020 |
| Evidence number: | 2/0009/18 |
| Program: | VEGA |
| Project leader: | RNDr. Michálek Anton, CSc. |
| SAS cosolvers: | Mgr. Bilková Kristína, PhD., RNDr. Podolák Peter, CSc., Mgr. Sládeková Madajová Michala, PhD., Mgr. Výbošťok Ján, PhD. |
| Other cosolvers: | 0 |
| Annotation: | Increasing global disparities trigger many serious problems in all countries and populations. Concentration of wealth in hands of a small group of persons opens an ever bigger gap between the very rich and the rest of population. It causes existential problems to the majority of population strata not only in the developing world but also in the developed countries. This trend is also evident in Slovakia where inequality is in addition characterised by a marked spatial differentiation. Research backed by empirical results confirmed that Slovakia in spite of rather high economic growth is one of the countries with increasing disparities. Distinctly negative consequences associated with increasing disparities are especially observable in underdeveloped regions. Disparities limit their chances of expansion, quality of life, human development, etc. The project focuses on quantification of relevant disparities, establishment of the rate of their deepening in time and determination of their effects on selected characteristics of human development. |
| Recent lateral and vertical evolution of river valley bottoms under changing environmental conditions and their impact on riverine landscape ecosystem services | |
| Duration: | 1. 1. 2018 - 31. 12. 2020 |
| Evidence number: | |
| Program: | VEGA |
| Project leader: | Ing. Kidová Anna, PhD. |
| SAS cosolvers: | RNDr. Horáčková Šárka, PhD., RNDr. Lehotský Milan, CSc., RNDr. Prokešová Roberta, PhD., Mgr. Rusnák Miloš, PhD., Mgr. Sládek Ján, PhD. |
| Annotation: | Project aimed to the morphologic-sedimentary research of recent river valley bottoms evolution, conditioned by lateral movement and channel incision under changing environmental conditions. Morphological aspects of river valley bottoms evolution are studied by identification of geomorphic evolution phases of flood benches. Research of lateral movement and channel incision is realized by multi-temporal analyses of remote sensing data, historical maps in GIS environment, hydrological records and it is combined by field research represented by UAV photogrammetric mapping, geodetic, geophysical, granulometric and dating methods. Ecosystem services are specified in accordance with generally accepted schemes used in the river landscape research. The results allow to formulate a time-spatial conceptual models of river valley bottoms development and scenarios for their further development. |
| SUBURBA - Suburbanization - development and impacts on socio-spatial structure in Bratislava hinterland | |
| Duration: | 1. 7. 2017 - 31. 12. 2020 |
| Evidence number: | APVV-16-0462 |
| Program: | APVV |
| Project leader: | Mgr. Šveda Martin, PhD. |
| SAS cosolvers: | Mgr. Falťan Ľubomír, CSc., PhDr. Gajdoš Peter, CSc., PhDr. Krivý Vladimír, CSc., RNDr. Michálek Anton, CSc., Mgr. Michniak Daniel, PhD., PhDr. Moravanská Katarína, PhD., Mgr. Sládeková Madajová Michala, PhD., Mgr. Šuška Pavel, PhD., Mgr. Výbošťok Ján, PhD. |
| Annotation: | The processes of suburbanization – changes caused by transfer of inhabitants from cities towards the rural hinterland – have been occurring in Slovakia and more specifically in the vicinity of the capital city for more than 20 years. Suburbanization in the hinterland of Bratislava represents the most significant transformation in residential and socio-spatial relations in the post-socialist history of Slovakia, whose trajectory and parameters significantly affect the future development possibilities of this dynamically growing region. In spite of the intensity and various impacts there have not been realized any comprehensive study on this complicated phenomenon. Yet, negative effects of suburbanization in Bratislava hinterland stress the need for this material. In this context, project is focused on evaluation of intensity and spatial range of suburbanization in Bratislava hinterland, its demographic and social impacts and spatial patterns of development. Besides the standard methods of social sciences, state-of-the-art methods of dynamically developing GIS and remote sensing will be deployed to fulfil these objectives. In addition to in-depth analysis of particular aspects of suburbanization the project attempts to seek relations of mutual interdependencies and connectivity necessary for its comprehensive evaluation. |
| STARCI - Intergenerational social networks in an aging city, continuity and innovation | |
| Duration: | 1. 7. 2016 - 30. 6. 2020 |
| Evidence number: | APVV-15-0184 |
| Program: | APVV |
| Project leader: | Mgr. Šuška Pavel, PhD. |
| SAS cosolvers: | Mgr. Gyárfáš Lutherová Soňa, PhD., Mgr. Šuška Pavel, PhD., Mgr. Šveda Martin, PhD., Mgr. Voľanská Ľubica, PhD., PhDr. Vrzgulová Monika, CSc. |
| Other cosolvers: | Juraj Majo, Slavomír Ondoš, Alena Rochovská |
| Annotation: | The process of aging is a development process at a high complexity level. It concerns all age categories in a population. In the process of aging, proportion of the elderly grows, motivating change in design of the social sphere, in formal and informal social care. It is estimated that 13% of seniors need help at home, 7-8% need systematic care, and 5% of them need institutional care. In 2014, the mean life expectancy at birth was 73 years for men and 80 years for women. Aging is associated with further specific phenomena in economic development (aging workforce), health care, and particularly financial sustainability of the pension system. Quality of life in oldage is also affected by the quality of social networks. Their absence leads to social exclusion and loneliness.According to qualitative surveys, loneliness is one of the most serious concerns of the elderly. Loneliness starts and worsens the course of pathological phenomena associated mainly with older age, manifested in mental and physical condition. People reduce their participation in economic activities and often even in daily life of their family. This factor is beyond the understanding of individuality with a certain biological predisposition, since it includes family history, and lifestyle in social context. This project focuses on loneliness of the elderly in urban environment. Surprisingly, in the context of high population density, variation of lifestyles, attitudes, interests wecan expect increased likelihood for innovative ways of dealing with practical implications of loneliness. Mostly, we expect presence of informal links between neighbors, acquaintances, colleagues, or random people met inpublic space. City has huge potential to reduce loneliness of the elderly, improve quality of their daily lives and thus address one of the most serious factors with far consequences. Slovak society is facing intensive aging of population and the problem will become more serious in the future. |
| PEDO-CITY-KLIMA - Effect of impermeable soil cover on urban climate in the context of climate change | |
| Duration: | 1. 7. 2016 - 30. 6. 2020 |
| Evidence number: | APVV-15-0136 |
| Program: | APVV |
| Project leader: | Doc. RNDr. Feranec Ján, DrSc. |
| SAS cosolvers: | RNDr. Kopecká Monika, PhD., Mgr. Pazúr Róbert, PhD., Ing. Szatmári Daniel, PhD. |
| Other cosolvers: | Michal Sviček, Adriana Zverková, Zuzana Klikušovská, Eva Pekárová, Martina Klaučová, Mária Kuťková, Jozef Takáč, Pavel Šťastný, Milan Lapin, Katarína Mikulová, Juraj Holec |
| Annotation: | Impervious surfaces affect the mezzo- and micro- climate of urban settlements. They contribute to formation of undesirable UHI (Urban Heat Islands), considerably reduce functions and ecosystem services of soil and limit water absorption. Land occupation and soil sealing along with the processes of global climate change bring significant negative effects not only for society and economy but they also affect the living standard and healthcondition of urban population. Big areas of continuous urban fabric contribute to the increase of mean temperature and extreme heats in summer in microclimatic comparison with the areas of the settlement greenery, gardens and landscape parks.The aim of the Project is to identify and assess the effects of impervious surfaces in urban agglomerations on the mezzo- and micro-climate in conditions of climate change. The basic premise for the solution is the analysis of intensity of construction and causes of its changes, as well as identification of UHI by interpretation of satellite images. The compiled database will be compared to the assessment of climate development in the cities by preparation of urban scenarios of climate change. The results will be confronted with the terrestrial meteorological measurement. The analysis will be accompanied by the impact estimate of impervious surfaces on the urban environment and urban population and the assessment of the effect of soil and greenery on sustainable management of urban territories.The Project will be applied to three cities: Bratislava, Trnava and Žilina, characterised by extremely extensive constructions with the minimal respect for the intrinsic risk of the changed climatic conditions.The outputs of the Project may bring a very important tool for the informed and scientific planning and decisionmaking processes of communal authorities in terms of environmental territorial design. Measures with stress onconservation of the environmental quality in the context of adaptat |
| Changes in Agricultural Land Use: Assessment of the Dynamics and Causes Applying Land Cover Data and Selected Environmental Characteristics | |
| Duration: | 1. 1. 2016 - 31. 12. 2018 |
| Evidence number: | 2/0096/16 |
| Program: | VEGA |
| Project leader: | Mgr. Pazúr Róbert, PhD. |
| SAS cosolvers: | Doc. RNDr. Feranec Ján, DrSc., Mgr. Goga Tomáš, PhD., RNDr. Kopecká Monika, PhD., Ing. Nováček Jozef, Prof. RNDr. Oťaheľ Ján, CSc., Mgr. Rosina Konštantín, PhD., Ing. Szatmári Daniel, PhD., Mgr. Šveda Martin, PhD. |
| Annotation: | Localities with agricultural use are among the most dynamic ones regarding the size and susceptibility to changes. Data obtained by remote sensing play an irreplaceable role in the analysis and spatial differentiation ofthis dynamics. Nature and span of changes, however, is modified by different socio-economic factors and natural conditions. The principal aim of this Project is to comprehend changes in the agricultural landscape in the period from 1970 to 2012 by identification of changes in agricultural land use and assessment of factors determining their frequency. The Project lays particular emphasis on the assessment of extensification, intensification and constructions on the farmland. The Project also assesses changes in agricultural land use in the forthcoming 60 years in Slovakia by means of innovative methods. Regarding the nature of the Project, which locates it in aninterface of humanities and natural sciences, the expected outputs offer a vast potential both for the science and planning. |
| Analysis of temporal-spatial dynamics of the selected cultural landscape structures in Slovakia, their protection and sustainable use | |
| Duration: | 1. 1. 2015 - 31. 12. 2017 |
| Evidence number: | 2/0023/15 |
| Program: | VEGA |
| Project leader: | RNDr. Hanušin Ján, CSc. |
| SAS cosolvers: | Prof. RNDr. Huba Mikuláš, CSc., Prof. RNDr. Ira Vladimír, CSc., Doc. RNDr. Lacika Ján, CSc., Mgr. Pazúr Róbert, PhD., Ing. Štefunková Dagmar, PhD. |
| Annotation: | Content and interpretation of the cultural landscape concept are ambiguous. This fact has negative impact on practical landscape management and protection, territorial planning, legal order and public dministration. An overview of the state-of-the-art of cultural landscape studies in literature, specification of theoretical and themethodological basis for the needs of the project is the first objective. The following step is the assessment of the processes, which cause changes in structures of cultural landscape on various hierarchic levels: local,microregional and regional. Studies of structure of cultural landscape and its changes (natural, socio-economic, cultural and historical characteristics) specific methodological procedures are applied on each level. Then the trends of changes are assessed, framework principles and rules of protection and sustainable management of cultural landscape taking into account the concept of sustainability are established. |
| Flood risk assessment and its integrated management on regional level | |
| Duration: | 1. 1. 2015 - 31. 12. 2017 |
| Evidence number: | 2/0038/15 |
| Program: | VEGA |
| Project leader: | RNDr. Solín Ľubomír, CSc. |
| SAS cosolvers: | Mgr. Michaleje Lukáš, Ing. Skubinčan Peter, PhD., Mgr. Sládeková Madajová Michala, PhD. |
| Annotation: | The aim of the project is to present basic methodological procedures of integrated assessment and management of flood risk on regional level using case studies. Integrated flood risk management is the result of combination of data about systemic and random factors determining the potential of flood hazard in a basin and the data expressing vulnerability of social, economic and environmental systems of the territory to flood. The necessary entry data are obtained by field research, questionnaire enquiry, from geodata and dasymetric mapping. Evaluation ends by identification of spatial variability of flood risk in a basin. Flood risk management is based on the concept of optimal strategy of flood risk management, which is the result of combined reduction of flood scope strategy, reduction of vulnerability strategy and the strategy for mitigation of the negative consequences. |
| Response of geomorphic-sedimentary connectivity/disconnectivity in fluvial system to environmental impacts | |
| Duration: | 1. 1. 2015 - 31. 12. 2017 |
| Evidence number: | 2/0020/15 |
| Program: | VEGA |
| Project leader: | RNDr. Lehotský Milan, CSc. |
| SAS cosolvers: | Mgr. Cebecauerová Martina, PhD., RNDr. Hanušin Ján, CSc., Ing. Kidová Anna, PhD., Mgr. Novotný Ján, PhD., Mgr. Rusnák Miloš, PhD., Mgr. Sládek Ján, PhD. |
| Other cosolvers: | Prírodovedecká fakulta UK |
| Annotation: | The project is aimed at research of sediment fluxes/landforms connectivity/disconnectivity in gravel bed and andering-braided river systems and the bypassed reach of a large river. The long-term as well as short-termvariability of sediment/landforms coupling due to human and climate changes impacts are investigated using the multi-temporal analysis of remote sensed data as well as data obtained by field campaigns. Attention is paid tothe research of river connectivity/disconnectivity adjustment due to recent short-term land cover changes at the atthe catchment scale, to recognition of the spatial variability in connectivity as a response to long term changes atthe valley segment scale, to assessment of channel-floodplain linkages of different channel landforms, theirresponse in succession of vegetation, floodplain roughness characteristics, to giving insight into the couplingoperation at reach scale as the response of contemporary fluctuations in hydrological regime (extreme flood events). |
| Regional divergence, spatial disparities and marginal regions in the context of socio-economic development in Slovakia | |
| Duration: | 1. 1. 2015 - 31. 12. 2017 |
| Evidence number: | 2/0101/15 |
| Program: | VEGA |
| Project leader: | RNDr. Michálek Anton, CSc. |
| SAS cosolvers: | RNDr. Podolák Peter, CSc., Mgr. Sládeková Madajová Michala, PhD. |
| Annotation: | One of the priorities of the EU cohesion programme is to project the results of economic growth into elimination of disparities between regions. In spite of preference (also financial) given to this aim it is obvious, that the policy ofregional convergence does not have the expected effects and requires search for new options for the solution of problems determined by increasing divergence. The aim of the project is to investigate disparities and problemsof some mostly marginal regions (MR) of Slovakia in the context of relevant divergence theories of regional development. The project focuses on the analysis of relationships and implications between economic growth,socio-economic and demographic development, regional divergence and disparities and their qualitative and quantitative expression. Empirical aim of the project will be to classify socio-economic MR, determine the rate of their marginality and to assess and predict their future development in case the trend of regional divergence would continue. |
| Development trajectories of localities and regions - product of sector and spatial policies, territorial capital and decisions | |
| Duration: | 1. 1. 2015 - 31. 12. 2017 |
| Evidence number: | 2/0035/15 |
| Program: | VEGA |
| Project leader: | RNDr. Székely Vladimír, CSc. |
| SAS cosolvers: | Mgr. Michniak Daniel, PhD., RNDr. Szőllős Ján, CSc., Mgr. Šuška Pavel, PhD. |
| Annotation: | Localities and regions with different values of their territorial capital are subject to not only continuous development but also to dynamic changes. Their different trajectories have been caused by specific responses to globalisation, dynamic changes in sector and spatial policies, which influence strategic, spatially selectivedecisions of investors and common population. Presence or absence of development incentives in localities and regions along with the level of their adaptation to the changed conditions and a creative use of their endogenous potential lead to a distinct spatial differentiation. The aim of the project is search for causes and mapping (identification) of impact of changes on the assessment and use of the territorial capital of selected localities and regions on preservation or change of their development paradigms and trajectories. |
| Specifics of time-space human behaviour under the impact of socio-economic changes | |
| Duration: | 1. 1. 2015 - 31. 12. 2017 |
| Evidence number: | 1/008215 |
| Program: | VEGA |
| Project leader: | Prof. RNDr. Ira Vladimír, CSc. |
| SAS cosolvers: | Prof. RNDr. Ira Vladimír, CSc., Mgr. Šuška Pavel, PhD., Mgr. Šveda Martin, PhD. |
| Other cosolvers: | Bilková Kristína, Mgr. |
| Annotation: | The aim of the project is the analysis and assessment of time-space behaviour of population under the impact of socio-economic changes. Two social phenomena will be the focus of this project. The first is transformation of retail under the effects of globalisation and internationalisation and the implicated change of population’s shopping behaviour. The second phenomenon is the change of population’s everyday life with numerous specificities of time-space behavioural patterns depending of nature of environment (urban, suburban and rural). The project is based on the methodical and conceptual framework of time-geography using new procedures in collecting and analysis of individual time-space records. First of all it is advanced processing data in the GIS (network analysis 3D modelling, etc.) Using the dual record of population’s activities by means of time-space budgets (diaries) and precise GPS location it is possible to obtain a unique database about everyday life with high time-space precision. |
| Castles in Slovakia. Interdisciplinary cross-sectional view on the castle phenomenon. | |
| Duration: | 3. 10. 2013 - 2. 10. 2017 |
| Evidence number: | |
| Program: | Centrá excelentnosti SAV |
| Project leader: | Doc. RNDr. Lacika Ján, CSc. |
| Production, verification and application of population and settlement spatial models based on European land monitoring services | |
| Duration: | 1. 1. 2013 - 31. 12. 2016 |
| Evidence number: | 1/0275/13 |
| Program: | VEGA |
| Project leader: | Prof. RNDr. Oťaheľ Ján, CSc. |
| SAS cosolvers: | Mgr. Pazúr Róbert, PhD., Mgr. Rosina Konštantín, PhD. |
| Annotation: | The progress in geoinformatics and remote sensing techniques boosted the production and usage of spatial datasets not only related to land but increasingly also to society. European Soil Sealing Layer (SSL) and European Population Density Grid (PDG) are among the most frequently used of these datasets. While SSL is detailed portray of built-up areas, PDG is a disaggregated population raster based on CORINE Land Cover(CLC). The objective of the project is to validate SSL in Slovakia and to employ the validated SSL along with CLC in production of spatial models of population and settlement in Slovakia that are more accurate than PDG.Preliminary versions of the models will be applied to the solutions of particular problems (e.g. urban and rural settlement delineation, areal interpolation methods assessment) in order to be verified and further improved. |
| Changes of cultural landscape: analysis of extension of urban fabric and farmland abandonment processes applying land cover databases | |
| Duration: | 1. 1. 2013 - 31. 12. 2015 |
| Evidence number: | 2/0006/13 |
| Program: | VEGA |
| Project leader: | Prof. RNDr. Oťaheľ Ján, CSc. |
| SAS cosolvers: | Doc. RNDr. Feranec Ján, DrSc., RNDr. Husár Karol, CSc., RNDr. Kopecká Monika, PhD., Ing. Nováček Jozef, Mgr. Pazúr Róbert, PhD., Mgr. Rosina Konštantín, PhD. |
| Annotation: | Interests of society driven by the economic development and human sources represent the major forces behind changes of cultural landscape. The character and scope of changes though, depend on natural conditions. Physical condition of landscape and land use (LU) in particular time is recorded by remote sensing data. These data represent correct information sources for the analysis of the rate and spatial differentiation of two now dominant trends in the development of landscape: extension of urban fabric and abandonment of farmland followed by wasting. These processes are assessed based on the data concerning CORINE land cover (CLC) changes from 1990, 2000 and 2006 (CLC1990, CLC2000 and CLC2006), and other specified data derived from aerial images of built-up areas at the national and regional levels of Slovakia. |
| Endogenous potential and exogenous factors of local and regional development in Slovakia | |
| Duration: | 1. 1. 2012 - 31. 12. 2014 |
| Evidence number: | 2/0086/12 |
| Program: | VEGA |
| Project leader: | RNDr. Székely Vladimír, CSc. |
| SAS cosolvers: | Mgr. Michniak Daniel, PhD. |
| Annotation: | In the last decades, intra- and interregional disparities in Slovakia have deepened. The dominant centralist conceptions of local and regional development that relied mainly on action of exogenous factors did not succeed in reducing or stabilizing the spatial disparities. One of identified causes was the insufficient analysis followed by inclusion of different local and regional specific features into the development strategies. The aim of the Project is to point to the significance of a decentralized approach to the development of localities and regions, with its typical traits that is identification, evaluation and mobilization of endogenous potential of the particular territory. We suppose the search for a balanced status between the rational use of two complementary spatial developmental approaches (bottom-up and top-down ones) is not only another option for the socio-economicgrowth of localities and regions but also a potential path to the reduction of spatial disparities and imbalanced quality of life. |
| Flood risk of municipalities in Slovakia | |
| Duration: | 1. 1. 2012 - 31. 12. 2014 |
| Evidence number: | 2/0091/12 |
| Program: | VEGA |
| Project leader: | RNDr. Solín Ľubomír, CSc. |
| SAS cosolvers: | Ing. Skubinčan Peter, PhD., Mgr. Sládeková Madajová Michala, PhD. |
| Annotation: | Knowing flood risk level is the obligatory premise for efficient decision-making involved with flood control policy, strategy and allocation of finances into flood control measures. The aim of the project is to assess the flood risk of municipalities in Slovakia. The basis of the assessment is the analysis of attributes proper to floods and the vulnerability of economic, social and environmental system of muni-cipalities. The main attribute of floods taken into account in the project is the frequency of flood events. Economic vulnerability is represented by parameters concerning housing and fixed asset for economic sectors; social vulnerability is expressed by parameters associated with attributes of population, social status and ethnicity. Environmental vulnerability is expressed by parameters associated with pollution sources. The level of flood risk of the munici-palities in Slovakia is established by the combination of flood event frequency and vulnerability applying the method of multicriteria analysis. |
| Natural and human-induced geomorphological and sedimentary changes in river system | |
| Duration: | 1. 1. 2012 - 31. 12. 2014 |
| Evidence number: | 2/0106/12 |
| Program: | VEGA |
| Project leader: | RNDr. Lehotský Milan, CSc. |
| SAS cosolvers: | Mgr. Cebecauerová Martina, PhD., Doc. RNDr. Jakál Jozef, DrSc., Ing. Kidová Anna, PhD., Mgr. Novotný Ján, PhD., Mgr. Rusnák Miloš, PhD., Mgr. Sládek Ján, PhD., RNDr. Urbánek Ján, CSc. |
| Annotation: | The project is aimed at research of natural and human-induced geomorphological and sedimentological changes in river systems in two large rivers (the Danube River, the Nile River), in selected gravel bed and wandering-braided river systems and two subterranean rivers. The long-term as well as short-term changes, human impacts on their morphological-sedimentary and land cover properties of riparian zone are investigated by using the multi-temporal analysis of remote sensed data as well as data obtained by field research campaings. The particular attention is paid to the research of geomorphic-sedimentary response to flood events. The project provides information on nature of rivers changes allowing assessment of rivers transformation intensity, and identification of their critical elements from the viewpoint of potential affect of human impact and consequences of floods. The project contributes to the conceptual modelling and forecasting of river behaviour as well as to their environmental management. |
| Regional and spatial disparities in Slovakia; development in the last decade, the present status and consequences | |
| Duration: | 1. 1. 2012 - 31. 12. 2014 |
| Evidence number: | 2/0112/12 |
| Program: | VEGA |
| Project leader: | RNDr. Michálek Anton, CSc. |
| SAS cosolvers: | Prof. RNDr. Ira Vladimír, CSc., Mgr. Kočišová Kornélia, RNDr. Podolák Peter, CSc., Mgr. Sládeková Madajová Michala, PhD., Mgr. Šuška Pavel, PhD., Mgr. Šveda Martin, PhD., Mgr. Veselovská Zuzana |
| Annotation: | The aim of the Project is to research into the present level, developments and changes of regional disparities RD) and spatial disparities (SD), result of important processes that took place in Slovakia in the last decade. The Project will focus on capturing the changes and tendencies of disparities between regions and model territories that took place after Slovakia joined the EU. The subject is the assessment of the regional policy of cohesion of the European Union and its effects on the present status and development of both the RD and SD – convergence or divergence of regional and disparities in model territories. Disparity analysis and assessments will be carried out on different hierarchic spatial levels. The logical output on the level of region will be the analysis and synthesis of selected relevant aspects of RD and SD, classification of regions into types and identification of existing marginal regions. SD will be observed in model territories. |
| Selected geographical aspects of the environment in Slovak regions and the country as a whole in international context | |
| Duration: | 1. 1. 2012 - 31. 12. 2014 |
| Evidence number: | 2/0111/12 |
| Program: | VEGA |
| Project leader: | Prof. RNDr. Ira Vladimír, CSc. |
| SAS cosolvers: | Mgr. Andráško Ivan, PhD., Mgr. Cebecauerová Martina, PhD., RNDr. Hanušin Ján, CSc., Prof. RNDr. Huba Mikuláš, CSc., Mgr. Chrenka Branislav, Doc. RNDr. Lacika Ján, CSc., RNDr. Szőllős Ján, CSc., Mgr. Šebo Dušan, PhD. |
| Annotation: | The aim of the project is the analysis of geographically relevant phenomena and processes connected with environmental changes in terms of sustainable development, nature protection, landscape management and increased quality of life on several hierarchic levels: international, national, regional and local. The sequences of steps is as follows: analysis of the state-of-art of the issue both in the national and international literature, preparation of the theoretical and methodological basis, updating of knowledge concerning the status and development of the environment through application of quantitative and qualitative methods, identification of economic activities and regions suitable for research. Subsequently developmental trends in the sphere of the environment and the nature, causes of changes that took place in the past decade will be identified based on topical data. The status and developments of the environment of the SR will be confronted with the international context using the international database and with regards to the international conventions. |
| Time-spatial analysis of land use: dynamics of changes, fragmentation and stability assessments by application of the CORINE land cover data layers | |
| Duration: | 1. 1. 2010 - 31. 12. 2012 |
| Evidence number: | 2/0018/10 |
| Program: | VEGA |
| Project leader: | Prof. RNDr. Oťaheľ Ján, CSc. |
| SAS cosolvers: | Doc. RNDr. Feranec Ján, DrSc., RNDr. Husár Karol, CSc., RNDr. Kopecká Monika, PhD., Ing. Nováček Jozef, Mgr. Pazúr Róbert, PhD., Mgr. Rábeková Andrea, Mgr. Rosina Konštantín, PhD. |
| Annotation: | Social interests affect dynamics of changes in the landscape where the decisive driving forces are the political and economic decisions. These have very intensively changed the landscape of Slovakia in the past fifty years.Central governments controlled the trends in urbanization and socialist agriculture, as well as the nature of the landscape structure in the 1950s. The return to the market economy in the 1990s and accession of Slovakia to the European Union at the beginning of the millennium also brought about changes in the settlement andagricultural landscape structure. The concrete tool for landscape change assessment consists of aerial and satellite images, but also the CORINE land cover data layers for 1990, 2000 a 2006 (CLC90, CLC2000 a CLC2006). Landscape dynamics, fragmentation and stability assessment makes use of a comparison with the natural landscape potential, with demographic and economic indicators and also legally approved socio-economic function, which regulate the regional development. |
| Centre for the Settlement Infrastructure Development of the Knowledge Based Society (SPECTRA+) | |
| Duration: | 1. 4. 2009 - 31. 12. 2011 |
| Evidence number: | ITMS 26240120002 |
| Program: | Štrukturálne fondy EÚ Bratislavský kraj |
| Project leader: | Prof. RNDr. Ira Vladimír, CSc. |
| SAS cosolvers: | Prof. RNDr. Huba Mikuláš, CSc., Prof. RNDr. Ira Vladimír, CSc., doc. Mgr. Kluvánková-Oravská Tatiana, PhD., Ing. Nemcová Edita, PhD., Prof. RNDr. Oťaheľ Ján, CSc., RNDr. Podolák Peter, CSc. |
| Other cosolvers: | Prof. |
| Complex dynamic of river geomorphic system | |
| Duration: | 1. 1. 2009 - 31. 12. 2011 |
| Evidence number: | 2/0151/09 |
| Program: | VEGA |
| Project leader: | RNDr. Lehotský Milan, CSc. |
| SAS cosolvers: | Doc. RNDr. Jakál Jozef, DrSc., Ing. Kidová Anna, PhD., Doc. RNDr. Lacika Ján, CSc., Mgr. Novotný Ján, PhD., RNDr. Pastuchová Zuzana, PhD., RNDr. Urbánek Ján, CSc. |
| Annotation: | The project is aimed at research of river geomorphic system dynamic methodologically based on the paradigm of system complexity. The hierarchical structure in selected river systems is analysed and its individual levels are identified. Their genesis and spatial aspects as well as aspects of human impacts on their morphological properties are investigated. Dynamics is analysed by examining of connectivity/disconnectivity of landforms and sediments fluxes at individual hierarchical levels. Knowledge about individual hierarchical levels properties, human impacts history as well as about landforms evolution and connectivity facilitate to detect non-linear trajectory of geo- and habitat diversity of fluvial geosystem and to predict its evolution at the river reach hierarchical level. The project contributes to understanding of morphology of Slovak rivers, to the progress of complex dynamic of river morphology and morphological basis of river habitats investigations as well as to the environmental management of river systems in the framework of worldwide trend. |
| Regional variability of flood risk in small basins of the SR | |
| Duration: | 1. 1. 2009 - 31. 12. 2011 |
| Evidence number: | 2/0138/09 |
| Program: | VEGA |
| Project leader: | RNDr. Solín Ľubomír, CSc. |
| SAS cosolvers: | RNDr. Hanušin Ján, CSc., Ing. Skubinčan Peter, PhD. |
| Annotation: | The project leans on the multidimensional approach to flood risk, which constitutes the combination of the probable occurrence of specified values corresponding to the maximum year discharges and the vulnerability of land cover, infrastructures and population to flooding. Assessment of flood risk at the national level is involved with the analysis of a possible application of certain simplifying as-sumptions with regard to the mapping of the flooded zones. Vulnerability assessment is based on regional variability of the flood hazard existing in small basins and easily accessible data about the nature of land cover and the nature of built-up areas, about regional variability of social and economic statuses of population in communes located in small basins. Identified regional classes of flood risk express the spatial differentiation of expected economic and social damage caused by the flood. |
| Regional winners and regional losers - identification of successful and less successful localities and regions in Slovakia | |
| Duration: | 1. 1. 2009 - 31. 12. 2011 |
| Evidence number: | 2/0096/09 |
| Program: | VEGA |
| Project leader: | RNDr. Székely Vladimír, CSc. |
| SAS cosolvers: | Mgr. Michniak Daniel, PhD. |
| Annotation: | What makes some regions of Slovakia economically successful? Why are some localities and regions more successful than other? Should the economic performance be the only criterion of success? What is the cause of successfulness of pragmatically defined spatial unit which can but does not have to be the result of functional relationships in space? Do investors, migrants and tourists take into account to the evident spatial differentiation of Slovakia? Does their spatial choice behaviour differ depending on the nature of production (in the case of firm behaviour) or socio-demographic characteristics (in the case of individual behaviour)? The aim of the Project is to search answers to these questions by expressing spatial disparities identified both on the basis of selected socio-economic indicators and the differentiated medial picture of particular localities and regions as presented by the printed media and Internet. |
| Eseje - Students Essays Competition Sustainable Way of Living | |
| Duration: | 1. 1. 2008 - 31. 12. 2011 |
| Evidence number: | LPP-0128-07 |
| Program: | APVV |
| Project leader: | Prof. RNDr. Huba Mikuláš, CSc. |
| SAS cosolvers: | Prof. RNDr. Ira Vladimír, CSc., Doc. RNDr. Lacika Ján, CSc. |
| Sustainability and quality of life in regions with emphasis on impacts of suburbanization and marginalization processes | |
| Duration: | 1. 1. 2009 - 31. 12. 2011 |
| Evidence number: | 2/0191/09 |
| Program: | VEGA |
| Project leader: | Prof. RNDr. Ira Vladimír, CSc. |
| SAS cosolvers: | Mgr. Andráško Ivan, PhD., RNDr. Hanušin Ján, CSc., Prof. RNDr. Huba Mikuláš, CSc., RNDr. Kollár Daniel, CSc., RNDr. Michálek Anton, CSc., RNDr. Podolák Peter, CSc., RNDr. Szőllős Ján, CSc., Mgr. Šuška Pavel, PhD. |
| Annotation: | The intention of the Project is to deepen the theoretical and methodological knowledge about sustainability and quality of life (QoL) on the one hand and to apply it to the research of selected regions in Slovakia on the other. The methodology relying on several time-spatial scales, objective and subjective dimensions of life quality, its several domains and a wide spectre of indicators will ensure the comprehensive geographical evaluation of sustainability and QoL in regions of Slovakia above all in relation to changes provoked by suburbanization and marginalizition processes. Sustainability and QoL will be analysed at various levels of territorial units and their perception and evaluation by population and decision-makers will be studied. The intention is to specify the content and structure of concepts sustainability and QoL, to comprehend of the the relationship between QoL and sustainable development, and to explain the specific spatial distribution of selected quality of life aspects. |
| Urbánno-rurálna - Current state and perspective of the settlement structure development of Slovakia | |
| Duration: | 1. 2. 2008 - 31. 12. 2010 |
| Evidence number: | APVV-0772-07 |
| Program: | APVV |
| Project leader: | Prof. RNDr. Ira Vladimír, CSc. |
| SAS cosolvers: | Mgr. Andráško Ivan, PhD., Prof. RNDr. Huba Mikuláš, CSc., RNDr. Podolák Peter, CSc. |
| Annotation: | The aim of the project is to assess the quality of settlement network in Slovakia and through created typology analyse the role of individual types in the settlement structure of the country. Postindistrialisation and postmodernization processes (emerging also in Slovakia) beg the question : what will be the role (function) of individual settlement types in the future development in relation to regional and supraregional development icluding international contexts. Existing character of settlemnt network in which rural settlemnt takes significant position, begs the question of posibilities and forms of mutual complementarities in society turning to the trajectory of posindustrialism and postmodernism. |
| Structure of the rural landscape: analysis of the development, changes and spatial organization by application of the CORINE land cover databases and the geographical information systems | |
| Duration: | 1. 1. 2007 - 31. 12. 2009 |
| Evidence number: | 2/7021/27 |
| Program: | VEGA |
| Project leader: | Prof. RNDr. Oťaheľ Ján, CSc. |
| SAS cosolvers: | Mgr. Beták Juraj, PhD., Doc. RNDr. Feranec Ján, DrSc., RNDr. Husár Karol, CSc., RNDr. Kopecká Monika, PhD., Mgr. Rábeková Andrea |
| Annotation: | The rural space accounts for the dominant part of the territory of Slovakia. Analysis of the rural landscape structure oriented to cognition of the natural potential and its social use is necessary for determination of the state of the landscape and for rational proposals concerning its further development. The landscape diagnosis is based on identification of natural (geoecological) and the present (human cultural) substructure, which includes land cover and the relevant socio-economic functions. Data layers of the natural landscape, CORINE land cover for the years 1990 and 2000 (CLC90 and CLC2000) and its socio-economic functions make it possible to assess the long-term development, changes, diversity, stability of land use, and spatial organization of the rural landscape in the GIS environment following the environmental principles. Assessment of the environmental quality and proposal of rural landscape organization on example of selected regions in Slovakia will be presented by means of cartographic outputs, tables, graphs and texts applicable for the purposes of landscape planning and management |
| Development of a European grassland monitoring & analysis service to assess climate change impact | |
| Duration: | 6. 4. 2009 - 26. 10. 2009 |
| Evidence number: | |
| Program: | Podpora MVTS z prostriedkov SAV |
| Project leader: | Doc. RNDr. Feranec Ján, DrSc. |
| SAS cosolvers: | Doc. RNDr. Feranec Ján, DrSc. |
| Economic performance and competitiveness of localities and regions | |
| Duration: | 1. 1. 2006 - 31. 12. 2008 |
| Evidence number: | 2/6038/27 |
| Program: | VEGA |
| Project leader: | RNDr. Székely Vladimír, CSc. |
| SAS cosolvers: | Mgr. Michniak Daniel, PhD. |
| Annotation: | The aim of the Project is to characterise the spatial differentiation of Slovakia by means economic performance indicators, which express the interaction between the determinants of local and regional competitiveness. The theoretical part focused on spatial competitiveness will be followed by empirical research. Economic performance of region will be investigated by means of unemployment rate; regional competitiveness will be studied through activities of real and potential labour market actors (employers and employees). Differences in creation of attractive/discouraging picture of region or localities by media that are taken into account by potential investors, migrants and tourists are identified. Methods of geographical analysis are applied to assessment of impacts of different attractiveness of regions (localities) on varied forms of spatial mobility of population (migration, commuting to work, etc.). |
| Identification and mapping of flood risk | |
| Duration: | 1. 1. 2006 - 31. 12. 2008 |
| Evidence number: | 2/6038/27 |
| Program: | VEGA |
| Project leader: | RNDr. Solín Ľubomír, CSc. |
| SAS cosolvers: | RNDr. Hanušin Ján, CSc. |
| Annotation: | The most recent trend in flood control measures is the integrated approach based on mutual combination of structu-ral and non-structural measures, which should lead to the cognition that the absolute protection is not possible and certain flood risk has to be accepted. This approach is preferred to that applied in the past which exclusively relied on application of engineering methods. The project proposes the following steps of research involved with flood risk: a) regional typification of flood risk for small basins in the SR corresponding to the 1990 land cover, b) identi-fication of changes in flood risk in small basins in the SR in the consequence of land cover changes which took place in 1990-2000, c) mapping of the inundated area in chosen basins which corresponded to the T-year dischar-ges and identification of differences in the extent of inundated area using the digital relief model with different resolution levels, d) presentation of example of the integrated approach to flood defence measures based on appli-cation of flood abating measures and non-structural flood management in a selected basin |
| A potential for the use of renewable energies in the territory of Slovakia | |
| Duration: | 1. 1. 2006 - 31. 12. 2008 |
| Evidence number: | 1/3049/27 |
| Program: | VEGA |
| Project leader: | Mgr. Cebecauer Tomáš, PhD. |
| SAS cosolvers: | Mgr. Cebecauerová Martina, PhD. |
| Annotation: | In association with a limited inventory of fossile fuel and growing need for a reduction of emissions and greenhouse gases, the use of renewable energies became one of inevitable solution for energy problems of the world. The aim of this project is thoroughly analyze possibilities for the use of renewable energies in the territory of Slovakia with focus on regional analysis and spatial aspects. In the project, the theoretical-methodological aspects of renewable energies potential will be conducted using spatial modeling in geographic information systems. A spatial database containing relevant natural and socio-economic conditions of the regions for renewable energies will be prepared. The possibilities for the use of the renewable energies in particular regions of Slovakia will be evaluated using a proposed efficiency model. The spatial database of the potential for the use of renewable energies will enable us to classify the territory of Slovakia according to the suitability for a particular type of renewable energy. The project will contribute to the complex evaluation of renewable energies abilities to fulfill sustainably the energy needs of Slovakia. |
| Regions and their changes from the perspective of quality and sustainability of life | |
| Duration: | 1. 1. 2006 - 31. 12. 2008 |
| Evidence number: | 2/6042/27 |
| Program: | VEGA |
| Project leader: | Prof. RNDr. Ira Vladimír, CSc. |
| SAS cosolvers: | Mgr. Andráško Ivan, PhD., RNDr. Hanušin Ján, CSc., Prof. RNDr. Huba Mikuláš, CSc., RNDr. Kollár Daniel, CSc., RNDr. Michálek Anton, CSc., RNDr. Podolák Peter, CSc., RNDr. Szőllős Ján, CSc. |
| Annotation: | The focus of the research will be a geographical study of the quality and sustainability of life on the regions and their changes.The aim defined by authors of the proposed research project is to deepen the theoretical and methodological knowledge of geographical research in the field of quality and sustainability of life. Working with a hierarchical spatial framework the spectrum of geographically relevant objective and subjective indicators will be employed in order to specify the content and the structure of term ´quality of life´, to investigate spatial distribution of various life quality aspects, and to study relationships between quality of life and sustainable development. The multi-scale multi-indicator methodological procedure employed in the research will provide a comprehensive geographical assessment of the changes in quality and sustainability of life in the regions of Slovakia. Such an investigation can be of practical use for planners and decision makers faced with task of defining priorities for developmental policies and programmes |
| Types and evolution models of valley and channel - foodplan geosystems | |
| Duration: | 1. 1. 2006 - 31. 12. 2008 |
| Evidence number: | 2/6040/27 |
| Program: | VEGA |
| Project leader: | RNDr. Lehotský Milan, CSc. |
| SAS cosolvers: | Mgr. Beták Juraj, PhD., RNDr. Grešková Anna, CSc., Doc. RNDr. Lacika Ján, CSc., Mgr. Novotný Ján, PhD. |
| Annotation: | The Project is focused on cognition of evolution, classification and evaluation of fluvial systems. The methodologically consists of the analysis and interpretation of morphostructural and morphosculptural properties of basins and their environs, analysis of longitudinal and transversal profiles of valleys, floodplains and channels and of the elaboration of the river basins, valleys and channels evolution models. The conception of classification of fluvial geosystems is based on application of hierarchic classification of river morphology. In evaluation of fluvial geosystems the Project concentrates on elaboration of basic evaluating schemes applicable to estimation of rivers health conditions, response to natural threats and their management. The Project contributes to the rational rivers management in Slovakia within the meaning of the EU Water Framework Directive. |
| Regional geomorfologic division of Slovakia 1:50000 | |
| Duration: | 1. 1. 2006 - 1. 12. 2008 |
| Evidence number: | |
| Program: | VEGA |
| Project leader: | RNDr. Urbánek Ján, CSc. |
| SAS cosolvers: | RNDr. Husár Karol, CSc., Doc. RNDr. Jakál Jozef, DrSc., Doc. RNDr. Lacika Ján, CSc. |
| Annotation: | Both digital and analogue maps of regional geomorphological division of Slovakia at scale 1:50 000 will be produced under the Project. The relief of Slovakia will be represented as a mosaic of hierarchically structured geomorphological wholes. The digital map will constitute one of the layers of the fundamental database of the Geographic Information System. |
| CLC 2006 - CORINE land cover 2006 | |
| Duration: | 30. 3. 2007 - 24. 11. 2008 |
| Evidence number: | |
| Program: | Iné projekty |
| Project leader: | Doc. RNDr. Feranec Ján, DrSc. |
| SAS cosolvers: | Ing. Nováček Jozef, Prof. RNDr. Oťaheľ Ján, CSc. |
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| Duration: | 30. 9. 2007 - 30. 9. 2008 |
| Evidence number: | |
| Program: | Iné projekty |
| Project leader: | RNDr. Podolák Peter, CSc. |
| SAS cosolvers: | RNDr. Hanušin Ján, CSc., Prof. RNDr. Huba Mikuláš, CSc., Prof. RNDr. Ira Vladimír, CSc., Mgr. Pazúr Róbert, PhD., Mgr. Šebo Dušan, PhD. |