Jan D Bláha
Biographic Data
| ID | 907936 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jan D Bláha |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jan D |
| FAMILY NAME | Bláha |
| SIGNATURE | BLÁHA J D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Jan Evangelista Purkyně University in Ústí nad Labem |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7273-3655 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Border between West and East of Europe in the mental maps of European university students
The paper addresses the issue of dividing Europe into two sub-regions, West and East, which are monitored and defined through the method of cognitive mapping. The first section reviews basic approaches to this division of Europe, focusing on the concept of duality, analysing its causes, manifestations and perception in the form of the West-East division. The following empirical part presents the results of an international research conducted in t…
Fluid regionalisation of semantic regions: Possibilities for visualisation
This paper explores diverse visualisation methods of regionalisation based on a semantic analysis of institutionalised region names (choronyms) and adopts a fluid (fuzzy) approach to regional boundaries. Grounded in the theory of the institutionalisation of regions, the study examines how region shapes delineate their identities, resulting in an overlapping space of regions. Thus, the nature of this approach in regional geography requires multipl…
The Influence of Textbook Visual Quality of Geographical Phenomena on Children’s Conceptions
The aim of the presented study is to evaluate the influence of the quality of visuals in printed geography textbooks on the character of children’s conceptions using the example of the geographical location concept. Visuals are a graphical representation of a certain phenomenon. A two-tier diagnostic test without and with three types of high and low quality physical-geographical visuals was used to achieve this objective. The research study among…
Macro-regional Divergent and Convergent Trends in the Global Economy
Current global trends belong to important branches of economic research. This article discusses changes among different parts of the world: do these changes increase or decrease over time? Are convergent trends more important within the global system than the divergent ones or vice versa? Changes are examined on the base of so-called world's macro-regions over the period 1970-2018, when the bipolar world has changed into a unipolar one and is cur…
The aura of tattoos: The commodification of tradition in Buscalan village, the Philippines
Exogenous Cultural Change in the Background of the Generational Change: The Case from Papua New Guinea
An analysis of cultural change and generation gaps in the local community of the Nungon ethnic group in the state of Papua New Guinea will be the subject of the study. This ethnic group came into contact with Europeans for the first time in the mid-1930s. The pace of cultural changes within the community has been gradually increasing. For example, the local animistic cult has been replaced with Christianity, school attendance has been introduced …
Visual spatial representation of social and cultural phenomena and its effect on local education: The case of Papua New Guinea
This study uses participatory research in spatial anthropology. The aim of the study is to demonstrate the possibilities in using maps in ethnology and anthropology, and to introduce the potential of the interdisciplinary cooperation of cartographers and geographers with ethnologists and anthropologists. In addition, the authors try to demonstrate the influence of maps and visual information on the life of a local community and local education us…
Household labelling for flash flood emergency management (Chrastava town, Northern Czechia)
Flash floods are natural hazards that may last only a few hours, but their sudden onset often results in severe impacts on society and the environment. Therefore, efforts to reduce flash flood-related losses have primarily focused on the compilation of emergency operation plans (EOPs). Conversely, there have been only a few attempts to provide cartographic representations of EOPs in order to show the spatial context of crisis operations. In the p…
Koloniální minulost etnické skupiny Nungon a její dopad na prostorové chování lidí
Objective of the paper is a study of effects of selected historical events on spatial behaviour of members of Nungon community (Morobe Province, Papua New Guinea). Authors argue that two particular historical events – the religious conflict and the relocation of a village to the new place – are continuously affecting daily life of the community; authors further argue that is possible to see the effect of the events in geographical space. The argu…
Small Rural Schools in the Primary Education Market: The Example of Turnov Region
The article deals with selected issues relating to the provision and accessibility of primary education in rural, non-exposed areas. These issues are examined from the viewpoint that various conditions force even public education to be guided by certain principles of the free market (e.g. competing for clients), although its actions in this respect are simultaneously rather constrained. The article sets out to analyse the primary education market…
Small Rural Schools in the Primary Education Market: The Example of Turnov Region
The article deals with selected issues relating to the provision and accessibility of primary education in rural, non-exposed areas. These issues are examined from the viewpoint that various conditions force even public education to be guided by certain principles of the free market (e.g. competing for clients), although its actions in this respect are simultaneously rather constrained. The article sets out to analyse the primary education market…
Small Rural Schools in the Primary Education Market: The Example of Turnov Region
The article deals with selected issues relating to the provision and accessibility of primary education in rural, non-exposed areas. These issues are examined from the viewpoint that various conditions force even public education to be guided by certain principles of the free market (e.g. competing for clients), although its actions in this respect are simultaneously rather constrained. The article sets out to analyse the primary education market…
Household labelling for flash flood emergency management (Chrastava town, Northern Czechia)
Flash floods are natural hazards that may last only a few hours, but their sudden onset often results in severe impacts on society and the environment. Therefore, efforts to reduce flash flood-related losses have primarily focused on the compilation of emergency operation plans (EOPs). Conversely, there have been only a few attempts to provide cartographic representations of EOPs in order to show the spatial context of crisis operations. In the p…
Koloniální minulost etnické skupiny Nungon a její dopad na prostorové chování lidí
Objective of the paper is a study of effects of selected historical events on spatial behaviour of members of Nungon community (Morobe Province, Papua New Guinea). Authors argue that two particular historical events – the religious conflict and the relocation of a village to the new place – are continuously affecting daily life of the community; authors further argue that is possible to see the effect of the events in geographical space. The argu…
Visual spatial representation of social and cultural phenomena and its effect on local education: The case of Papua New Guinea
This study uses participatory research in spatial anthropology. The aim of the study is to demonstrate the possibilities in using maps in ethnology and anthropology, and to introduce the potential of the interdisciplinary cooperation of cartographers and geographers with ethnologists and anthropologists. In addition, the authors try to demonstrate the influence of maps and visual information on the life of a local community and local education us…
Exogenous Cultural Change in the Background of the Generational Change: The Case from Papua New Guinea
An analysis of cultural change and generation gaps in the local community of the Nungon ethnic group in the state of Papua New Guinea will be the subject of the study. This ethnic group came into contact with Europeans for the first time in the mid-1930s. The pace of cultural changes within the community has been gradually increasing. For example, the local animistic cult has been replaced with Christianity, school attendance has been introduced …
The aura of tattoos: The commodification of tradition in Buscalan village, the Philippines
The Influence of Textbook Visual Quality of Geographical Phenomena on Children’s Conceptions
The aim of the presented study is to evaluate the influence of the quality of visuals in printed geography textbooks on the character of children’s conceptions using the example of the geographical location concept. Visuals are a graphical representation of a certain phenomenon. A two-tier diagnostic test without and with three types of high and low quality physical-geographical visuals was used to achieve this objective. The research study among…
Macro-regional Divergent and Convergent Trends in the Global Economy
Current global trends belong to important branches of economic research. This article discusses changes among different parts of the world: do these changes increase or decrease over time? Are convergent trends more important within the global system than the divergent ones or vice versa? Changes are examined on the base of so-called world's macro-regions over the period 1970-2018, when the bipolar world has changed into a unipolar one and is cur…
Border between West and East of Europe in the mental maps of European university students
The paper addresses the issue of dividing Europe into two sub-regions, West and East, which are monitored and defined through the method of cognitive mapping. The first section reviews basic approaches to this division of Europe, focusing on the concept of duality, analysing its causes, manifestations and perception in the form of the West-East division. The following empirical part presents the results of an international research conducted in t…
Fluid regionalisation of semantic regions: Possibilities for visualisation
This paper explores diverse visualisation methods of regionalisation based on a semantic analysis of institutionalised region names (choronyms) and adopts a fluid (fuzzy) approach to regional boundaries. Grounded in the theory of the institutionalisation of regions, the study examines how region shapes delineate their identities, resulting in an overlapping space of regions. Thus, the nature of this approach in regional geography requires multipl…
Geography (8 works) · Political science (7 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Computer Science (4 works) · Ethnology (4 works) · Economic geography (3 works) · New guinea (3 works) · Psychology (3 works) · Anthropology (2 works) · Art (2 works)