FP6 priority
1.1.7   Citizens and Governance in a Knowledge-based society
1.7.1
Title of the proposal

Spatial and Temporal Aspects of Quality of Life as the Pre-Conditions for the Development of a Knowledge-based Society

Institute
Slovak Academy of Sciences, Institute of Geography
Stefanikova 49, 814 73 Bratislava, Slovak Republic
www.geography.sk
Contact
Name:
Vladimir IRA
Phone:
+421 2 52492751
E-mail:
ira@savba.sk


Research subject for a potential FP6 project

PRINCIPAL CHANGES OF SOCIO-ECONOMIC CONDITIONS DECISIVELY INFLUENCE SPATIAL ORGANISATION OF THE WHOLE SOCIETY AND QUALITY OF LIFE. EVALUATION OF SPATIAL-TEMPORAL DIMENSION OF HUMAN DEVELOPMENT REQUIRES-ANALYSIS OF IT‘S MAIN DETERMINANTS – DEMOGRAPHIC, SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC RESOURCES.
GEOGRAPHICAL PERSPECTIVE OFFRES AN ANALYSIS OF NATIONAL LEVEL AND INTERREGIONAL DISPARITIES (DIFFERENCIES) OF THE FOLLOWING PROBLEMS:
- SPATIAL AND TEMPORAL CHANGES IN SELECTED ASPECTS OF THE QUALITY OF LIFE;
- SIGNIFICANT CHANGES THAT APPEAR IN DEMOGRAPHIC BEHAVIOUR AND STRUCTURE OF POPULATION IN RELATION TO EDUCATIONAL QUALITY OF HUMAN RESOURCES;
- RATIONAL ORGANIZATION OF THE DEMAND-SUPPLY LINKAGES IN MANUFACTURING SECTOR;
- TERRITORIAL ASPECTS OF PENETRATION OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGIES FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF KNOWLEDGE-BASED SOCIETY, SPATIAL ASSESIBILITY OF PUBLIC SERVICES;
- FORMING OF THE EUROREGIONS WITH INTENSIVE COOPERATION IN BORDER AREASOFSLOVAKIA MAINLY WITH AUSTRIA, CZECH REPUBLIC, POLAND AND HUNGARY (PROCESS OF THE FORMING);
- SERIOUS SOCIAL CONSEQUENCES OF ECONOMIC TRANSFORMATION RESULTING IN SOCIAL PATOLOGY SUCH AS CRIME, POVERTY AND DRUG ABUSE.
The main objective of the proposed project is to analyse selected spatial activities of man in the changing socio-economic conditions and their comparison with various European countries and regions.


Recent international cooperation of the research team

Austrian Institute of East and Southeast European Studies, Wien, Austria; Institut fur den Donauraum und Mitteleuropa, Wien, Austria; Institute of Geography, PAN, Warszawa, Poland;Institute of Geography, Ljubljana, Slovenia; Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Institute of Geonics, Brno, Czech Republic; Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Geographical Research Institute, Budapest, Hungary; Institute of cultural and economic geography, University of Goteborg, Sweden


Proposer´s relevant publications related to the research subject

IRA, V. (1994). LA PERCEPTION DE LA QUALITE DE VIE ET DE L\' ENVIRONNEMENT DANS UNE REGION EN CRISE. IN REY, V., ED. TRANSITION, FRAGMENTATION, RECOMPOSITION, LA TCHECO-SLOVAQUIE EN 1992. COLLECTION SOCIETES, ESPACES, TEMPS, ENS EDITIONS, FONTENAY-ST CLOUD,.153-160.
IRA, V., KOLLAR, D. (1994). Behavioural-Geographical Aspects of Environmental Quality. Geojournal , 32, 221-224.
KOLLAR, D. et al. (1998). Die Slowakei der 90-er Jahre: Ausgewahlte Sozial- und Wirstchafts-geographischen Aspekte. Geographische Jahrbuch Burgenland, Vereinigung Burgenlandischer Geographen, Neutal, 11-48.
IRA, V. (1999). ZIVOTNE PROSTREDIE, KVALITA ZIVOTA A TRVALO UDRZATELNY ROZVOJ VO VNIMANI A PREDSTAVACH OBYVATELOV (V REGIONOCH D.POMORAVIE, TATRY A V.KARPATY). ACTA FACULTATIS STUDIO-RUM HUMANITATES ET NATURAE UNIVERSITATIS PRESOVIENSIS. FOLIA GEOGRAPHICA 3, 32, 338-347.