Concepts and delimitation of the worldʼs macro-regions

• Authors: J. Anděl , I. Bičík , J. D. Bláha

Abstracts

EN

The authors focus on the current differentiation of the world and on its cognitive, application and educational frameworks and importance for the present. Macro-regional differentiation of the world has resulted from geographic concepts and it is a foundation for understanding the global development of society. This article evaluates the specific concepts and factors that form concepts of world macro-regions prepared by famous authors. It also presents a methodological approach for macro-regional forming of the world. After a theoretical and methodological introduction there is a discussion of the differentiation of the world entitled “Macroregional differentiation of the world - formation and application.ˮ The authors also present their conception of world differentiation and evaluation of the creation macro-regions and their positive and negative influence of the macro-regional differentiation of the world.

Keywords

EN

Regional geography; geography of the world; differentiation of the world; global macro-regions; concepts and factors of regionalization

• Publisher: Wydział Geografii i Studiów Regionalnych Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego
• Journal: Miscellanea Geographica. Regional Studies on Development
• Year: 2018
• Volume: 22
• Issue: 1

Dates

published

2018

Contributors

author

J. Anděl

• J. E. Purkyně University in Ústí nad Labem, Faculty of Science, Department of Geography, Ústí nad Labem, Czechia

author

I. Bičík

• Charles University, Faculty of Science, Department of Social Geography and Regional Development, Prague, Czechia

author

J. D. Bláha

• J. E. Purkyně University in Ústí nad Labem, Faculty of Science, Department of Geography, Ústí nad Labem, Czechia

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Identifiers

DOI

10.2478/mgrsd-2018-0001

Biblioteka Nauki

2108298