LOCAL DEMOGRAPHIC TREND IN SLOVAKIA: PERCEPTION, SOCIAL IMPLICATIONS AND INTERDISCIPLINARY PROSPECTS (Lokalny demograficky vyvoj na Slovensku: percepcia, spolocenske implikacie a interdisciplinarne vyzvy)

• Authors: Bleha Branislav
• Languages of publication: SK

Abstracts

EN

Rapid demographical changes and ageing belong to the essential features of the transformation in post-communist countries. This issue was analysed by plenty of studies and publications characterised by a general as well as detail character. Thus, we know quite enough about the demographic essence of these changes, however, the social, macro-economical and social consequences and other wider aspects have been rarely analysed in Slovakia, in the Czech Republic as well as in other Central European countries. There is a scarcity of research on wide public perception of demographic trend. Moreover, we have not found any study about the perception of demographic trend by local authorities and central governments in these countries. This study tries to fill this gap. It represents a pilot research on how the Slovak local self-government authorities (mayors) perceive demographical changes. They have been asked if they understand population ageing, if they realize what factors influence it, what social consequences the demographical development brings, and if they have any population strategies and forecasts for their own municipalities. Since the spatial differentiation is very peculiar with regard to the demographic processes, the author tried to select different answers of mayors by linking them with several delimited regional types of municipalities and settlements. In addition to this geographical view, he discusses the need for a comprehensive approach in this field linking together demographical, geographical and sociological methods.

Keywords

EN

AGEING; DEMOGRAPHIC TREND; DEMOGRAPHY; LOCAL GOVERNMENT; PERCEPTION; POPULATION; SLOVAKIA

Discipline

• SOCIOLOGY: SOCIOLOGY

• Publisher: Institute of Sociology, Slovak Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Sociológia (Sociology)
• Year: 2011
• Volume: 43
• Issue: 4
• Pages: 362-390
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Bleha Branislav

• Branislav Bleha, Katedra humannej geografie a demogeografie, Prirodovedecka fakulta UK, Mlynska dolina, 842 15 Bratislava, Slovak Republic

Identifiers

CEJSH db identifier

11SKAAAA098312