scholarly journals Role of Cultural Facilities in Promoting Regional Identity Amid a Changing Community: Case Study on the Metropolitan Areas, Kinki and Tokai Regions

2013 ◽  
Vol 43 (3) ◽  
pp. 385-396
Author(s):  
Akitoshi EDAGAWA
Keyword(s):  
Metropolitan Areas ◽  
Regional Identity

scholarly journals Perception of Regional Identity – Case Study of River Basins of the Morava River (Slovakia, Czech Republic)

2019 ◽  
Vol 67 (1) ◽  
pp. 133-145
Author(s):  
Dagmar Petríková ◽  
Matej Jaššo
Keyword(s):  
Czech Republic ◽  
Competitive Advantage ◽  
Regional Identity ◽  
River Basins ◽  
Future Perspectives ◽  
European Regions ◽  
Morava River ◽  
Identity Perception

New role of the European regions within the processes of cooperation and competition highlighted their need for unique, highly profiled and strategically managed regional identity. Regional identity is one of the most important assets of any region and might serve as invaluable competitive advantage. Regional identity, its sources, background and consequences for regional development are the main focus of this contribution. Need for unique, original and plausible profile of each region, aspiring to be successful in the process of regional competition has been confirmed to be utterly urgent. Struggling for competitive advantage of the particular region is based on the strategic managerial approach toward city/regional identity. The article refers to the survey of regional identity in the river basins of the Morava river in both the Slovak and the Czech parts of the river basins covering the results of perception of various elements of regional identity: perception of landscape and river, relations to living spaces, values and image, river identity and identification with territory, recent societal development and future perspectives.

scholarly journals The regional identity of the inhabitants of regions which have experienced an interrupted continuity in their socio-historical development. A case study of Czech regions that were resettled after World War II

Geografie ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 123 (4) ◽  
pp. 437-459 ◽  
Author(s):  
Miloslav Šerý ◽  
Veronika Klementová
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
World War Ii ◽  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Identity Construction ◽  
Empirical Data ◽  
Historical Development ◽  
Regional Identity ◽  
World War

The article is focused on the phenomenon of regional identity and its relationship with processes of socio-historical development. The objective is to compare the regional identities of the inhabitants of two typologically specific regions located in Czechia. These regions’ specific characteristics are defined by dramatic interruptions in their development that occurred during the twentieth century. The existing regional identity of the inhabitants was assessed with regard to the role of the regions based on four principles used in the process of identity construction. Primary empirical data was obtained via questionnaire and subjected to further comparative analysis. In its conclusion, the article notes that the regional identities of the inhabitants of regions that experienced a discontinuity in their socio-historical development can vary considerably. In our conclusions, we augment the existing knowledge concerning the forms that the regional identities of inhabitants can take in regions with interrupted continuity in their development.

scholarly journals The Role of Industry in Satellite Towns of Polish and French Metropolitan Areas – Case Study of Myślenice and Issoire

2014 ◽  
Vol 25 ◽  
pp. 194-211
Author(s):  
Agnieszka Kwiatek-Sołtys ◽  
Krzysztof Wiedermann ◽  
Helene Mainet ◽  
Jean-Charles Edouard
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
Metropolitan Areas ◽  
Small Towns ◽  
Economic Base ◽  
Central Service

The emerging problem of changing and shrinking economic base of many small towns causes necessity of searching for new paths of development for them. Former central service functions existing in many small towns are largely washed out to larger cities as a result of the present metropolisation processes. The question arises to what extent these towns are or may be attractive for the development of production functions.The aim of the paper is to show the role of industry for the development of small towns in Małopolska in Poland and Auvergne in France on the case studies of Myślenice and Issoire.

The role of multiplicity in a cult: A case study

1987 ◽  
Author(s):  
William A. Worrall ◽  
Ann W. Stockman

Endangered Butterflies and their Non-Native Host Plants: Examining Shifting Values of Belonging in Restoration

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-9
Author(s):  
Robert M. Anderson ◽  
Amy M. Lambert
Keyword(s):  
Ecological Restoration ◽  
Native Species ◽  
Puget Sound ◽  
A Value ◽  
The Social ◽  
Remote Island ◽  
Scientific Truth ◽  
Native Host

The island marble butterfly (Euchloe ausonides insulanus), thought to be extinct throughout the 20th century until re-discovered on a single remote island in Puget Sound in 1998, has become the focus of a concerted protection effort to prevent its extinction. However, efforts to “restore” island marble habitat conflict with efforts to “restore” the prairie ecosystem where it lives, because of the butterfly’s use of a non-native “weedy” host plant. Through a case study of the island marble project, we examine the practice of ecological restoration as the enactment of particular norms that define which species are understood to belong in the place being restored. We contextualize this case study within ongoing debates over the value of “native” species, indicative of deep-seated uncertainties and anxieties about the role of human intervention to alter or manage landscapes and ecosystems, in the time commonly described as the “Anthropocene.” We interpret the question of “what plants and animals belong in a particular place?” as not a question of scientific truth, but a value-laden construct of environmental management in practice, and we argue for deeper reflexivity on the part of environmental scientists and managers about the social values that inform ecological restoration.

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