Jana Spilková
Biographic Data
| ID | 3100421 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jana Spilková |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jana |
| FAMILY NAME | Spilková |
| SIGNATURE | SPILKOVÁ J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Charles University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 61 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 14 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Prague’s community gardening in liquid times
Building on the concept of liquid leisure, this paper examines the current potential of community gardening in Prague to create collaborative place-bound communities. By looking closely at the fluctuation of members of selected gardens and the reasons for withdrawal from this activity, we try to see if changes in the member base have any consequences for the functioning of the gardens and the social groups created around them. The results are bas…
Producing space, cultivating community
The loss of land devoted to allotment gardening
Homophobic Prejudice in Czech Youth
Substance misuse and its risk perception in European teenagers
This paper aims to reveal the relations of risk behavior and its contextual factors, including the perception of risks that substance use may bring. Statistical analysis is based on the data from the European School Project on Alcohol and Other Drugs (ESPAD) [2007 ESPAD. 2007. The 2007 ESPAD Report. Stockholm: The Swedish Council for Information on Alcohol and Other Drugs. [Google Scholar]. The 2007 ESPAD Report. Stockholm: The Swedish Council fo…
Multiple health risk behaviour in Czech adolescents
Leisure time preferences and health-risk behavior of teenagers in the post-communist Central European countries
In Central and Eastern Europe (CE), alcohol consumption, smoking, and substance use have become a substantial problem mainly among young people as well as changes of their leisure time occupations. The paper uses the binary logistic regression to measure the association between a certain type of leisure occupations and health-risk behaviors to show which activities are the most prone to health-risk behaviors. The analysis shows one prominent resu…
Farmers' markets in Czechia
Culinary Tourism Packages and Regional Brands in Czechia
The paper discusses the 'Regional Brand' initiative as the regional quality certification with potential to build links with viable rural tourism products. This branding system is explained in the context of a multi-functional paradigm in the development of viable rural economies. A questionnaire survey of certified producers conducted for the first part of the research within this paper revealed mainly a strong awareness of the regional branding…
Farmers’ markets in Prague
The Formation of Identity in Teenage Mall Microculture
Geographies of children and youth are a surprisingly neglected research topic in the transforming (post-communist) countries, where many societal changes are taking place. This article introduces a research project that focused on teenagers and their leisure-time activities, concentrating especially on teenagers who spend the majority of their leisure time in shopping malls. The goal of the article is to reveal how such teenagers use the micro-sp…
Social inequalities in alcohol consumption in the Czech Republic
Inequalities in smoking in the Czech Republic
Foreign Firms and the Perception of Regions in the Czech Republic
Foreign investment is of particularly importance in countries undergoing far‐reaching economic transformation. Also the location of foreign investment throughout the country is very important for further regional development. Actual location decisions of investors are influenced by various factors, but it is rather obvious that behind these decisions there is also always a lack of information or a distorted view of potential locations and regions…
The loss of land devoted to allotment gardening
Producing space, cultivating community
Farmers’ markets in Prague
Prague’s community gardening in liquid times
Building on the concept of liquid leisure, this paper examines the current potential of community gardening in Prague to create collaborative place-bound communities. By looking closely at the fluctuation of members of selected gardens and the reasons for withdrawal from this activity, we try to see if changes in the member base have any consequences for the functioning of the gardens and the social groups created around them. The results are bas…
Culinary Tourism Packages and Regional Brands in Czechia
The paper discusses the 'Regional Brand' initiative as the regional quality certification with potential to build links with viable rural tourism products. This branding system is explained in the context of a multi-functional paradigm in the development of viable rural economies. A questionnaire survey of certified producers conducted for the first part of the research within this paper revealed mainly a strong awareness of the regional branding…
Homophobic Prejudice in Czech Youth
Farmers' markets in Czechia
Social inequalities in alcohol consumption in the Czech Republic
Inequalities in smoking in the Czech Republic
Leisure time preferences and health-risk behavior of teenagers in the post-communist Central European countries
In Central and Eastern Europe (CE), alcohol consumption, smoking, and substance use have become a substantial problem mainly among young people as well as changes of their leisure time occupations. The paper uses the binary logistic regression to measure the association between a certain type of leisure occupations and health-risk behaviors to show which activities are the most prone to health-risk behaviors. The analysis shows one prominent resu…
The Formation of Identity in Teenage Mall Microculture
Geographies of children and youth are a surprisingly neglected research topic in the transforming (post-communist) countries, where many societal changes are taking place. This article introduces a research project that focused on teenagers and their leisure-time activities, concentrating especially on teenagers who spend the majority of their leisure time in shopping malls. The goal of the article is to reveal how such teenagers use the micro-sp…
Multiple health risk behaviour in Czech adolescents
Foreign Firms and the Perception of Regions in the Czech Republic
Foreign investment is of particularly importance in countries undergoing far‐reaching economic transformation. Also the location of foreign investment throughout the country is very important for further regional development. Actual location decisions of investors are influenced by various factors, but it is rather obvious that behind these decisions there is also always a lack of information or a distorted view of potential locations and regions…
Foreign Firms and the Perception of Regions in the Czech Republic
Foreign investment is of particularly importance in countries undergoing far‐reaching economic transformation. Also the location of foreign investment throughout the country is very important for further regional development. Actual location decisions of investors are influenced by various factors, but it is rather obvious that behind these decisions there is also always a lack of information or a distorted view of potential locations and regions…
Social inequalities in alcohol consumption in the Czech Republic
Inequalities in smoking in the Czech Republic
The Formation of Identity in Teenage Mall Microculture
Geographies of children and youth are a surprisingly neglected research topic in the transforming (post-communist) countries, where many societal changes are taking place. This article introduces a research project that focused on teenagers and their leisure-time activities, concentrating especially on teenagers who spend the majority of their leisure time in shopping malls. The goal of the article is to reveal how such teenagers use the micro-sp…
Farmers’ markets in Prague
Leisure time preferences and health-risk behavior of teenagers in the post-communist Central European countries
In Central and Eastern Europe (CE), alcohol consumption, smoking, and substance use have become a substantial problem mainly among young people as well as changes of their leisure time occupations. The paper uses the binary logistic regression to measure the association between a certain type of leisure occupations and health-risk behaviors to show which activities are the most prone to health-risk behaviors. The analysis shows one prominent resu…
Farmers' markets in Czechia
Culinary Tourism Packages and Regional Brands in Czechia
The paper discusses the 'Regional Brand' initiative as the regional quality certification with potential to build links with viable rural tourism products. This branding system is explained in the context of a multi-functional paradigm in the development of viable rural economies. A questionnaire survey of certified producers conducted for the first part of the research within this paper revealed mainly a strong awareness of the regional branding…
Multiple health risk behaviour in Czech adolescents
Homophobic Prejudice in Czech Youth
Substance misuse and its risk perception in European teenagers
This paper aims to reveal the relations of risk behavior and its contextual factors, including the perception of risks that substance use may bring. Statistical analysis is based on the data from the European School Project on Alcohol and Other Drugs (ESPAD) [2007 ESPAD. 2007. The 2007 ESPAD Report. Stockholm: The Swedish Council for Information on Alcohol and Other Drugs. [Google Scholar]. The 2007 ESPAD Report. Stockholm: The Swedish Council fo…
The loss of land devoted to allotment gardening
Producing space, cultivating community
Prague’s community gardening in liquid times
Building on the concept of liquid leisure, this paper examines the current potential of community gardening in Prague to create collaborative place-bound communities. By looking closely at the fluctuation of members of selected gardens and the reasons for withdrawal from this activity, we try to see if changes in the member base have any consequences for the functioning of the gardens and the social groups created around them. The results are bas…
Geography (10 works) · Political science (8 works) · Psychology (8 works) · Sociology (8 works) · Czech (7 works) · Context (archaeology (6 works) · Business (5 works) · Economics (5 works) · Organic Food and Agriculture (5 works) · Urban Agriculture and Sustainability (5 works)