Josef Novotný
Biographic Data
| ID | 172036 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Josef Novotný |
| GIVEN NAMES | Josef |
| FAMILY NAME | Novotný |
| SIGNATURE | NOVOTNÝ J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Charles University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9556-7162 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 33 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 78 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 33 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
A framework for understanding precarious economic incorporation of Ukrainian refugees in Central Eastern Europe
This article introduces the MoPEI (Mechanisms of Precarious Economic Incorporation) framework, a conceptual-analytical tool for explaining how refugees are steered into precarious labor through the relational and layered intersections of multiple mechanisms. Considering the labor market realities of Central and Eastern Europe, MoPEI identifies six such mechanisms – structural constraints, temporal and legal ambiguity, migration infrastructures, s…
Adjective‐based qualitative comparative analysis
This paper introduces a novel adjective‐based approach for conducting structured yet interpretive comparisons of case studies that explore the situated lived realities of diverse population groups. The method derives salient descriptive adjectives from qualitative data for individual cases, harmonises them across cases to build a shared comparative vocabulary, analyses their co‐occurrence patterns using network analysis, and re‐contextualises the…
Drivers of Return Plans Among Ukrainian War Refugees in Czechia
This article examines return plans of forcibly displaced persons from Ukraine in Czechia, which has one of the highest relative shares of Ukrainian refugees in population. It draws on data from two rounds of cross‐sectional surveys conducted in 2022 ( N = 1037) and 2023 ( N = 350), including a panel subsample ( N = 116). Using exploratory network analysis and structural equation modelling informed by the theory of planned behaviour, the study cap…
Integrative Framework for Understanding (Im)mobility Across Geographical Contexts
In this article, we present an i ntegrative analytical framework for understanding (im)mobility across different geographical and thematic contexts. We contend that previous literature on (im)mobility has underplayed the psychosocial mechanisms underlying perceived capabilities and aspiration formation. Our framework combines structural transition theory and the sustainable livelihoods approach to contextualise livelihood conditions and integrate…
Drivers behind (non-)return of Ghanaian international university graduates
Implementing the World’s Largest Sanitation Program – Findings from Rural Jharkhand in India
Uncomfortable geographies of research ethics
How Intersecting State Paternalism, Low Aspirations and Relative Satisfaction Preserve the Inertia of Rural Livelihoods in Odisha
Rural Odisha, located along the eastern coast of India, has experienced slow economic growth over the past decade. This article employs a perspective rooted in the political economy of rural livelihoods to explore how and why this stagnation manifests among farmers. The case study focuses on farming households in a socioecologically homogeneous area with an upgraded irrigation scheme in an interior area in the northeastern side of the state. It u…
Promotion of market-based sanitation in Ethiopia
Ethiopia increased the availability of latrines notably, but the sanitation facilities rarely meet hygienic standards. Therefore, the market-based sanitation (MBS) programme has been implemented across the country for nearly a decade to expand the market and boost the demand for hygienic sanitation products and services. While it does not seem that the MBS would bring any notable change in sanitation conditions so far, its implementation challeng…
Spatial Environment and Open Defecation
This article examines the social valuation of the external environment used for open defecation (OD). For this, we distinguish between the necessity-driven OD hypothesis that emanates from the reasoning of scarcity valuation of suitable open spaces used for OD (i.e., as the last resort option) owing to resource constraints preventing toilet adoption and the opportunity-driven OD hypothesis, which contends that it is the availability of suitable s…
Same planet but different worlds! Diverging convergence pattern of urban form typologies across 413 cities with million+ inhabitants and their sustainability trade-offs
Understanding migration aspirations using the extended theory of planned behavior
Extending comparative typologies of diaspora policies
Barriers for upgrading of latrines in rural Ethiopia
Ethiopia achieved the fastest reduction in open defaecation worldwide over the two past decades. However, it was through the use of predominantly non-durable, unhygienic latrines. It questions the presumed effects of latrine adoption on public health and heightens a risk of return to open defaecation. Resources invested into sanitation in Ethiopia may be wasted if upgrading to latrines is not facilitated. This paper aims to understand factors hin…
Geography matters for sanitation! Spatial heterogeneity of the district‐level correlates of open defecation in India
This paper quantitatively analyzes the spatial heterogeneity of district‐level correlates of open defecation in rural India. We employ standard non‐spatial regression, spatially explicit regressions and multi‐scale geographically weighted regression to compare the stability of measurable correlates of open defecation across these different methods as well as across analyzed spatial units. Attributes like ownership of household assets, drinking wa…
Let us expand this Western project by admitting diversity and enhancing rigor
The role of geographic and cognitive proximity in knowledge networks
In pursuit of sustainability – Spatio-temporal pathways of urban growth patterns in the world's largest megacities
Building in or out? Examining urban expansion patterns and land use efficiency across the global sample of 466 cities with million+ inhabitants
Urban expansion of the 43 worlds’ largest megacities
Spatio-temporal patterns of urbanization in the Kolkata Urban Agglomeration
The rise and fall of the New Alliance for Food Security and Nutrition
The New Alliance for Food Security and Nutrition (NAFSN) was launched in 2012 by the G7 countries as a major initiative to fight hunger in Africa. It promised to raise 50 million people out of poverty over the next 10 years by brokering pro-market reforms and flows of private capital to African agriculture. However, it failed to fulfil its promises and disappeared quietly from the public arena before the end of the 10-year period. This article ap…
Boj o první legislativní úpravu národních výborů v roce 1944
Postgraduate migration behaviour of international university students supported from the Czech Development Cooperation scholarships
The development impacts of international scholarships for students from the Global South are most commonly understood through the expansion of human capital in the students' home countries for which the scholars' return analysed in this paper represents a key prerequisite. Utilising the theory of planned behaviour, this paper examines factors influencing the plans to return and actual postgraduation migration behaviour of 430 grantees of the Czec…
Why do theories matter? The Czech scholarships programme for students from developing countries examined through different theoretical lenses
Building in or out? Examining urban expansion patterns and land use efficiency across the global sample of 466 cities with million+ inhabitants
In pursuit of sustainability – Spatio-temporal pathways of urban growth patterns in the world's largest megacities
Same planet but different worlds! Diverging convergence pattern of urban form typologies across 413 cities with million+ inhabitants and their sustainability trade-offs
Urban expansion of the 43 worlds’ largest megacities
Understanding migration aspirations using the extended theory of planned behavior
Drivers behind (non-)return of Ghanaian international university graduates
Postgraduate migration behaviour of international university students supported from the Czech Development Cooperation scholarships
The development impacts of international scholarships for students from the Global South are most commonly understood through the expansion of human capital in the students' home countries for which the scholars' return analysed in this paper represents a key prerequisite. Utilising the theory of planned behaviour, this paper examines factors influencing the plans to return and actual postgraduation migration behaviour of 430 grantees of the Czec…
Drivers of Return Plans Among Ukrainian War Refugees in Czechia
This article examines return plans of forcibly displaced persons from Ukraine in Czechia, which has one of the highest relative shares of Ukrainian refugees in population. It draws on data from two rounds of cross‐sectional surveys conducted in 2022 ( N = 1037) and 2023 ( N = 350), including a panel subsample ( N = 116). Using exploratory network analysis and structural equation modelling informed by the theory of planned behaviour, the study cap…
Regional Convergence, Divergence and Other Aspects of Distributional Dynamics of European Regions in the Period 1992-2006
The paper provides an exploratory analysis of regional dynamics among 264 NUTS2 EU-27 regions over the period 1992-2006. Seven different regional indicators are analyzed including wages, household expenditures, retail sales, investments, productivity, GDP, and GDP adjusted for international purchasing power differences. Several aspects of regional dynamics are studied such as convergence, polarization, role of international component, overall mob…
How Intersecting State Paternalism, Low Aspirations and Relative Satisfaction Preserve the Inertia of Rural Livelihoods in Odisha
Rural Odisha, located along the eastern coast of India, has experienced slow economic growth over the past decade. This article employs a perspective rooted in the political economy of rural livelihoods to explore how and why this stagnation manifests among farmers. The case study focuses on farming households in a socioecologically homogeneous area with an upgraded irrigation scheme in an interior area in the northeastern side of the state. It u…
Extending comparative typologies of diaspora policies
The role of geographic and cognitive proximity in knowledge networks
The rise and fall of the New Alliance for Food Security and Nutrition
The New Alliance for Food Security and Nutrition (NAFSN) was launched in 2012 by the G7 countries as a major initiative to fight hunger in Africa. It promised to raise 50 million people out of poverty over the next 10 years by brokering pro-market reforms and flows of private capital to African agriculture. However, it failed to fulfil its promises and disappeared quietly from the public arena before the end of the 10-year period. This article ap…
Adjective‐based qualitative comparative analysis
This paper introduces a novel adjective‐based approach for conducting structured yet interpretive comparisons of case studies that explore the situated lived realities of diverse population groups. The method derives salient descriptive adjectives from qualitative data for individual cases, harmonises them across cases to build a shared comparative vocabulary, analyses their co‐occurrence patterns using network analysis, and re‐contextualises the…
Integrative Framework for Understanding (Im)mobility Across Geographical Contexts
In this article, we present an i ntegrative analytical framework for understanding (im)mobility across different geographical and thematic contexts. We contend that previous literature on (im)mobility has underplayed the psychosocial mechanisms underlying perceived capabilities and aspiration formation. Our framework combines structural transition theory and the sustainable livelihoods approach to contextualise livelihood conditions and integrate…
Uncomfortable geographies of research ethics
Cognitive Mapping of Major World Regions among Czech Geography Students
Please click here to download the map associated with this article. World regions are essential categories through which our knowledge about the world is organized and spatially anchored. To a large extent, these regions are mental constructs created by considering selected features and by disregarding others. In this study we examine the world regional divisions in the minds of 107 Czech geography students at the Charles University in Prague whi…
Regional Convergence, Divergence and Other Aspects of Distributional Dynamics of European Regions in the Period 1992-2006
The paper provides an exploratory analysis of regional dynamics among 264 NUTS2 EU-27 regions over the period 1992-2006. Seven different regional indicators are analyzed including wages, household expenditures, retail sales, investments, productivity, GDP, and GDP adjusted for international purchasing power differences. Several aspects of regional dynamics are studied such as convergence, polarization, role of international component, overall mob…
A multi‐dimensional analysis of the impacts of the M ahatma G andhi N ational R ural E mployment G uarantee S cheme
This paper provides a multi‐dimensional analysis of the impacts of the Indian M ahatma G andhi N ational R ural E mployment G uarantee S cheme using a case study from rural T amil Nadu. Drawing on structured interviews in households and semi‐structured interviews with local employers and officials, we analyse the effects of the workfare scheme when it is widely and properly implemented. We distinguish between different conceptualizations of the w…
Exploring the spatial relatedness network of the global system of international migration
The global geography of international migration has a complex pattern that emerges from the distinct spatial distributions of many individual migrant groups. To visualise this structure, we use the spatial relatedness network of the global international migration system. Unlike traditional spatial networks based on real spatial interactions, spatial relatedness networks are based on possible relationships which are determined as a degree of agree…
The Role of Perceived Social Norms in Rural Sanitation
The perception of social sanitation norms (PSSNs) around unacceptability of open defecation has been a key aspect of recent sanitation interventions. However, underlying mechanisms through which "reconstructed" PSSNs affect sanitation outcomes have been a black box. This explorative cross-sectional study examines direct and indirect links between PSSNs and sanitation safety using data from structured interviews and observations in 368 households …
Meteorological Application of UAV as a New Way of Vertical Profile of Lower Atmosphere Measurement
The knowledge of basic meteorological parameters is crucial in terms of understanding the atmospheric behavior for a given period and consequently also for creating the weather forecast. There are several ways of obtaining such data. A broadening of measurement techniques through the unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) is one of the newest trends of today. Depending on the character of use of the unmanned platform, it could gather data from a signific…
The social and political construction of latrines in rural Ethiopia
Comprehending practitioners’ assessments of community-led total sanitation
Around 2.3 billion people in developing countries still lack access to improved sanitation facilities and almost one billion practice open defecation (OD). The Community-Led Total Sanitation (CLTS) has recently become a particularly popular approach used in more than 60 countries. CLTS is a behavior-change approach that aims to ignite community action and make OD socially unacceptable without providing any external financial or material support t…
Boj o první legislativní úpravu národních výborů v roce 1944
Postgraduate migration behaviour of international university students supported from the Czech Development Cooperation scholarships
The development impacts of international scholarships for students from the Global South are most commonly understood through the expansion of human capital in the students' home countries for which the scholars' return analysed in this paper represents a key prerequisite. Utilising the theory of planned behaviour, this paper examines factors influencing the plans to return and actual postgraduation migration behaviour of 430 grantees of the Czec…
Why do theories matter? The Czech scholarships programme for students from developing countries examined through different theoretical lenses
Spatio-temporal patterns of urbanization in the Kolkata Urban Agglomeration
The rise and fall of the New Alliance for Food Security and Nutrition
The New Alliance for Food Security and Nutrition (NAFSN) was launched in 2012 by the G7 countries as a major initiative to fight hunger in Africa. It promised to raise 50 million people out of poverty over the next 10 years by brokering pro-market reforms and flows of private capital to African agriculture. However, it failed to fulfil its promises and disappeared quietly from the public arena before the end of the 10-year period. This article ap…
Geography matters for sanitation! Spatial heterogeneity of the district‐level correlates of open defecation in India
This paper quantitatively analyzes the spatial heterogeneity of district‐level correlates of open defecation in rural India. We employ standard non‐spatial regression, spatially explicit regressions and multi‐scale geographically weighted regression to compare the stability of measurable correlates of open defecation across these different methods as well as across analyzed spatial units. Attributes like ownership of household assets, drinking wa…
Let us expand this Western project by admitting diversity and enhancing rigor
The role of geographic and cognitive proximity in knowledge networks
In pursuit of sustainability – Spatio-temporal pathways of urban growth patterns in the world's largest megacities
Building in or out? Examining urban expansion patterns and land use efficiency across the global sample of 466 cities with million+ inhabitants
Urban expansion of the 43 worlds’ largest megacities
Barriers for upgrading of latrines in rural Ethiopia
Ethiopia achieved the fastest reduction in open defaecation worldwide over the two past decades. However, it was through the use of predominantly non-durable, unhygienic latrines. It questions the presumed effects of latrine adoption on public health and heightens a risk of return to open defaecation. Resources invested into sanitation in Ethiopia may be wasted if upgrading to latrines is not facilitated. This paper aims to understand factors hin…
Promotion of market-based sanitation in Ethiopia
Ethiopia increased the availability of latrines notably, but the sanitation facilities rarely meet hygienic standards. Therefore, the market-based sanitation (MBS) programme has been implemented across the country for nearly a decade to expand the market and boost the demand for hygienic sanitation products and services. While it does not seem that the MBS would bring any notable change in sanitation conditions so far, its implementation challeng…
Spatial Environment and Open Defecation
This article examines the social valuation of the external environment used for open defecation (OD). For this, we distinguish between the necessity-driven OD hypothesis that emanates from the reasoning of scarcity valuation of suitable open spaces used for OD (i.e., as the last resort option) owing to resource constraints preventing toilet adoption and the opportunity-driven OD hypothesis, which contends that it is the availability of suitable s…
Same planet but different worlds! Diverging convergence pattern of urban form typologies across 413 cities with million+ inhabitants and their sustainability trade-offs
Understanding migration aspirations using the extended theory of planned behavior
Extending comparative typologies of diaspora policies
Economics (20 works) · Geography (15 works) · Economic growth (11 works) · Economic geography (10 works) · Computer Science (9 works) · Political science (9 works) · Sociology (9 works) · Child Nutrition and Water Access (8 works) · Psychology (8 works) · Sanitation (8 works)