WATER
Water is basic part of an ecosystem and it is an important material for life on the Earth. It is also a scarce economic resource with many debates about its value, price and allocation mechanisms. Water has been declared a public good (not only in the Czech Republic) and its administration was commended to state institutions. The economic theories contain much knowledge explaining the causes, but chiefly the implications of the accompanying negative or positive effects of this form of natural resources management. Thus the field of water management is not only the domain of hydrologists or biologists but also for specialists from the fields of economics and social sciences.
In the long term the IEEP researches the institutional, economic and political relations in water management and the influence of these factors on the quality of water administration in the Czech Republic. The floods and damages caused by floods are a significant topic in this context. Large scale flooding has manifested itself in the Czech Republic since 1997. The IEEP is also concerned with analyses of institutional reforms in water management in relation to implementing the Water Framework Directive.
Hydrological research (monitoring water quality and quantity, extreme phenomena – floods and drought) constitutes the basis for climate change impact research. It is concerned above all with the impact of future changes on the sustainable development of natural systems, water resources and water ...
The aim of the project is to elaborate a socio-economic analysis of territorial protection for future localities suitable for surface water accumulation according to an up-to-date list with the goal of identifying and formulating the socio-economic impacts of the protection regime in the affected ...
The supply of raw materials and nature often determine a region’s economic development. Recently this potential (especially of immobile natural resources) has had more and more emphasis. Stress is not only placed on the usage of natural resources for direct production purposes but also on ...
The current research project on flood protection focuses on “flash floods” in small river basins. It fully uses the knowledge on the institutional setting, the economic background and key stakeholders’ mutual communication and cooperation regarding flood protection, which was gathered during ...
The project focused mainly on elaborating an economic classification of flood damages and a detailed analysis of the public expenditures spent as a direct reaction to the catastrophic floods in 1997 and 2002. During the first year of the project a methodology for an economic evaluation of flood ...
The project focused on developing a basic economic analysis of the flood protection system in the CR. This aim consisted of describing the current institutional setting and specifying the roles of central government, local governments and citizens. Furthermore the main economic characteristics of ...
The research project was focused on the description and the analysis of institutional learning and capacity development regarding natural disasters. The theoretical background was applied to the catastrophic floods which occurred in the Czech Republic in August 2002. Within the research project, ...
