Questioning territorial cohesion: (Un)equal access to services of general interest

0466458 - ÚGN 2020 US eng J - Journal Article
Malý, Jiří
Questioning territorial cohesion: (Un)equal access to services of general interest.
Papers in Regional Science. Roč. 97, č. 2 (2018), s. 323-343. ISSN 1056-8190. E-ISSN 1435-5957
Institutional support: RVO:68145535
Keywords : territorial cohesion * services of general interest * accessibility * spatial justice * Czech Republic
OECD category: Urban studies (planning and development)
Impact factor: 2.020, year: 2018
Method of publishing: Limited access
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/pirs.12250/full

Although the debates about access to services of general interest have been at the
core of the EU territorial cohesion discourse since the late 1990s, the impact of unequal
accessibility to living conditions has yet be the subject of close inspection. The paper examines
the relationship between the accessibility of services of general interest and demographic and
socio-economic conditions in a specific Czech region. The analysis reveals inter-municipal
disparities and identifies spatially excluded areas. Despite the negative association of insufficient
access with education and depopulation characteristics, the results suggest that demographic and socio-economic development stems from a more complex set of factors.
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