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Dr. Stanislav Martinat
Czech Academy of Science, Institute of Geonics, Department of Environmental Geography

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I´m a researcher in Human Geography, currently working at the Department of Environmental Geography, Institute of Geonics, Czech Academy of Sciences and at the Department of Geography, Palacky University. I´m a former COFUND (MCSA) Research Fellow (Cardiff University) and a Fulbright Fellow (Arizona State University). The focal points of my research are on new spatial phenomena affecting contemporary transition of rural and urban space (like brownfields or renewable energies).

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Published: 18 June 2021 in Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews
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The aim of this study is to better understand the recent changes in the feedstocks of anaerobic digestion plants, the driving forces behind these changes and consequent opportunities to strengthen closed-cycle energy production and promote the circular bioeconomy approaches. The study analyses Poland – a country with a highly diversified agrarian structures and with various levels of the development and focus of regional agricultural sectors which belong to the main sources of biosubstrates to be energetically processed in anaerobic digestion (AD) plants. Biowaste, including biowastes originating in agri-food production and in households, is indicated as one of the key sources for a more sustainable biogas generation. Our findings indicate and prove a gradual shift in the mix of substrates, including the growing role of energy processing of biowaste from households and municipalities. It was also ascertained that in the initial phase of the development of Polish biogas market in early 2010s, the AD substrates in most important position were agricultural raw materials (energy crops) and agricultural waste. On the other hand, during the course of time and due to developing legal requirements as well as financial and market conditions, the biowastes from the food industry and of municipal origin have gradually gained significance. An unintentional shift towards the energy processing of the more sustainable AD substrates in Poland is visible despite a rather low environmental awareness of AD operators.

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J. Chodkowska-Miszczuk; S. Martinát; D. van der Horst. Changes in feedstocks of rural anaerobic digestion plants: External drivers towards a circular bioeconomy. Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews 2021, 148, 111344 .

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J. Chodkowska-Miszczuk, S. Martinát, D. van der Horst. Changes in feedstocks of rural anaerobic digestion plants: External drivers towards a circular bioeconomy. Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews. 2021; 148 ():111344.

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J. Chodkowska-Miszczuk; S. Martinát; D. van der Horst. 2021. "Changes in feedstocks of rural anaerobic digestion plants: External drivers towards a circular bioeconomy." Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews 148, no. : 111344.

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Published: 13 May 2021 in Land
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Our paper deals with a micro-study of one residential building in the city center of Brno (Czech Republic) where we strived to identify and better understand the main factors behind the successful implementation of environmentally friendly solutions during the regeneration process. We followed the unique, complicated, and often conflictual story of the regeneration (conducted during the years 2010–2020) of the residential building, which was originally built in the 1930s. In total, 18 solutions were discussed—all four solutions on the state level of centralization were realized, only two of six solutions on the building level of centralization were materialized, and six of eight decentralized solutions were realized during the regeneration process. In the field of energy savings requiring high investments, a significant dominance of centralized solutions (on the state level) was identified. Centralized solutions on the building level such as heat pumps or solar panels were not realized. In the area of waste management and care for community greenery (that did not require large investments), we see as the most beneficial the promotion of decentralized solutions in the form of community-funded communal composting or the planting of new greenery. The formation of various regeneration options, which is discussed in detail, appeared as an integral instrument for dealing with conflicts among residents during the planning phase.

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Josef Navrátil; Petr Klusáček; Stanislav Martinát; Petr Dvořák. Emergence of Centralized (Collective) and Decentralized (Individual) Environmentally Friendly Solutions during the Regeneration of a Residential Building in a Post-Socialist City. Land 2021, 10, 524 .

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Josef Navrátil, Petr Klusáček, Stanislav Martinát, Petr Dvořák. Emergence of Centralized (Collective) and Decentralized (Individual) Environmentally Friendly Solutions during the Regeneration of a Residential Building in a Post-Socialist City. Land. 2021; 10 (5):524.

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Josef Navrátil; Petr Klusáček; Stanislav Martinát; Petr Dvořák. 2021. "Emergence of Centralized (Collective) and Decentralized (Individual) Environmentally Friendly Solutions during the Regeneration of a Residential Building in a Post-Socialist City." Land 10, no. 5: 524.

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Published: 30 April 2021 in Energies
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Energy transition is surely not only about the technological change, but it also has to necessarily reflect socio-cultural and environmental transformations on the local level. Hence, local communities’ energy literacy belongs to the crucial elements in designing successful energy transition and strengthening rural resilience. Energy literacy is a concept widely related to the multifaceted phenomenon of energy consumption, both in its individual and collective dimensions. Therefore, the aim of the present study is to analyse the level of energy literacy in rural conditions, considering its three key dimensions (awareness, attitude, and behaviour). Our reflective considerations about energy literacy build on the current knowledge that stress its importance for the reinforcement of rural resilience. The case study, Zławieś Wielka, in the north-central Poland, was selected where a social survey (N = 300) on the relation between energy literacy and rural resilience was conducted. By means of employing the cross-tabulations method for data analyses, our results signal that certain indications of the ecological awareness among the rural residents are being formed. Our findings clearly suggest that, on the one hand, the needs for more environmentally reasonable management with energy, including electricity and heat, come to the fore. On the other hand, various types of investments in improving the energy efficiency of residential buildings and utilising energy generation from renewable energy sources are observed. It seems that the surveyed community has a clear potential to become the vector for sustainable and just energy transition of the countryside. The essential conditions that urgently need to be implemented to ensure the viability of rural energy transition are the educational reinforcement within the community and more generous long-term institutional support from the central government, targeted on endogenous development and enhancing the local social capital.

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Justyna Chodkowska-Miszczuk; Maria Kola-Bezka; Agata Lewandowska; Stanislav Martinát. Local Communities’ Energy Literacy as a Way to Rural Resilience—An Insight from Inner Peripheries. Energies 2021, 14, 2575 .

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Justyna Chodkowska-Miszczuk, Maria Kola-Bezka, Agata Lewandowska, Stanislav Martinát. Local Communities’ Energy Literacy as a Way to Rural Resilience—An Insight from Inner Peripheries. Energies. 2021; 14 (9):2575.

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Justyna Chodkowska-Miszczuk; Maria Kola-Bezka; Agata Lewandowska; Stanislav Martinát. 2021. "Local Communities’ Energy Literacy as a Way to Rural Resilience—An Insight from Inner Peripheries." Energies 14, no. 9: 2575.

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Published: 21 March 2021 in Land
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The fall of the Iron Curtain created a vacuum upon which large-scale collectivized agriculture was largely abandoned. Post-agricultural brownfields emerge in multiple manners across national, regional and local levels. While these sites remain rarely explored, we aimed to better understand the spatial consequences of the formation, persistence and reuse of these sites. The regions of South Bohemia and South Moravia in the Czech Republic are used to show the location of post-agricultural brownfields identified in 2004 through 2018. Using Global Moran’s I test we have found that post-agricultural brownfields existing in 2004, long-term brownfields in 2018 and brownfields established between 2004 and 2018 are spatially clustered, but remediated brownfields between 2004 and 2018 are not. Next, the Anselin’s Local Moran’s I test identified where the spatial clusters exist. The clusters identified were examined for differences in their social, economic and environmental development by the means of logistic regression. The results show that the brownfields initially identified in 2004 are concentrated in regions with lower quality agricultural land while simultaneously located in the hinterlands of regional urban centers. In contrast, peripheral regions most often contained long-term brownfields. Brownfield sites identified after 2004 occurred in regions with higher agricultural quality of land and where corn usually grows.

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Tomáš Krejčí; Josef Navrátil; Stanislav Martinát; Ryan Frazier; Petr Klusáček; Kamil Pícha; Jaroslav Škrabal; Robert Osman. Spatial Unevenness of Formation, Remediation and Persistence of Post-Agricultural Brownfields. Land 2021, 10, 325 .

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Tomáš Krejčí, Josef Navrátil, Stanislav Martinát, Ryan Frazier, Petr Klusáček, Kamil Pícha, Jaroslav Škrabal, Robert Osman. Spatial Unevenness of Formation, Remediation and Persistence of Post-Agricultural Brownfields. Land. 2021; 10 (3):325.

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Tomáš Krejčí; Josef Navrátil; Stanislav Martinát; Ryan Frazier; Petr Klusáček; Kamil Pícha; Jaroslav Škrabal; Robert Osman. 2021. "Spatial Unevenness of Formation, Remediation and Persistence of Post-Agricultural Brownfields." Land 10, no. 3: 325.

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Published: 08 March 2021 in Land
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The paper aims to deepen our understanding of the relationship and the impact of creative actors on regional development and investigates the nexus between them. The novelty of the paper lies in constructing an original criteria matrix of creative actors’ indicators which might serve as a basis for further research and policy implications. The original criteria matrix consists of two groups of indicators measuring the creative people and creative capital in the region, their mutual relationships and impact on regional development. We found that creative actors are not distributed equally across the regions in Slovakia. The strong dominance of the region with the capital city (Bratislava) was detected. We also discovered a strong direct positive relationship between representatives of the creative people and a strong direct relationship between the creative people and the emergence of small and medium enterprises (SMEs).

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Kamila Borseková; Anna Vaňová; Janka Šúrová; Pavol Kráľ; Kamila Turečková; Jan Nevima; Stanislav Martinát. The Nexus between Creative Actors and Regional Development. Land 2021, 10, 276 .

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Kamila Borseková, Anna Vaňová, Janka Šúrová, Pavol Kráľ, Kamila Turečková, Jan Nevima, Stanislav Martinát. The Nexus between Creative Actors and Regional Development. Land. 2021; 10 (3):276.

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Kamila Borseková; Anna Vaňová; Janka Šúrová; Pavol Kráľ; Kamila Turečková; Jan Nevima; Stanislav Martinát. 2021. "The Nexus between Creative Actors and Regional Development." Land 10, no. 3: 276.

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Published: 19 February 2021 in Environment, Development and Sustainability
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Our aim is to determine the factors influencing a visitor’s decision to stay in a green accommodation facility. Visitors from six tourist sites throughout the Czech Republic were surveyed. Out of 944 respondents, 506 have never visited a “green” accommodation facility and only 93 respondents stayed mainly in a “green” accommodation facility. Several independent variables from four factors were studied—the socio-demographic status of respondents, pro-environmental behaviour in tourism, pro-environmental behaviour in everyday life and the pro-environmental attributes of accommodation facilities. Logistic regression and decision tree model were used to identify the most influential variables that are responsible for the choosing of “green” accommodation. Expenses during holiday, attitudes, personal norms, pro-environmental behaviour in everyday life and the attributes of a hotel reception were found as important by logistic regression, and out of them, pro-environmental behaviour in everyday life and personal norms are the most important. It is important that variables from all four factors were found as being statistically important for the choosing of a “green” accommodation facility. Inquiry at the tourist attractions resulted in diversified information from the respondents that has a predicative ability to link “green” accommodation to the visit of mass tourist destinations. An extremely low proportion of those who spend their holidays only in “green” accommodation facilities was found.

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Roman Švec; Stanislav Martinát; Kamil Pícha; Petr Klusáček; Jaroslav Knotek; Justin Calvin Schaefer; Monika Březinová; Josef Navrátil. What drives visitors to tourist sites to choose “green” accommodation facilities? Environment, Development and Sustainability 2021, 23, 15074 -15099.

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Roman Švec, Stanislav Martinát, Kamil Pícha, Petr Klusáček, Jaroslav Knotek, Justin Calvin Schaefer, Monika Březinová, Josef Navrátil. What drives visitors to tourist sites to choose “green” accommodation facilities? Environment, Development and Sustainability. 2021; 23 (10):15074-15099.

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Roman Švec; Stanislav Martinát; Kamil Pícha; Petr Klusáček; Jaroslav Knotek; Justin Calvin Schaefer; Monika Březinová; Josef Navrátil. 2021. "What drives visitors to tourist sites to choose “green” accommodation facilities?" Environment, Development and Sustainability 23, no. 10: 15074-15099.

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Published: 20 December 2020 in Land
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The near elimination of inland salt marshes in Central Europe occurred throughout the 19th and 20th centuries, and the currently remaining marshes exist in a degraded condition. This work examines the impact of groundwater level on the growth of plants from a seed bank obtained from a degraded salt marsh in proximity to still existing one through an ex-situ experiment. An experimental tank was set up with the sample seed bank experiencing differing levels of water level. There were 1233 specimens of 44 taxa grown from the seed bank, of which 5 species were abundant, and 10 species are considered as halophytes. Only Lotus tenuis from halophytes was more abundant, and only five species of halophytes were represented by more than three individuals. The water level has a significant impact on the number of species (based on linear regression analysis) as well as species distribution among different water level treatments (a non-metric multidimensional analysis (nMDS) followed by linear regression). The results show a strong negative relationship between the average water level and the number of species. The water level did not affect the species composition of halophytes, but differences in individual species abundances were found among the halophytes. The species Bupleurum tenuissimum, Crypsis schoenoides, Melilotus dentatus, and Plantago maritima grew on the drier and non-inundated soils. Tripolium pannonicum, Spergularia maritima, and Lotus tenuis grew on both wet and dry soils. Trifolium fragiferum and Bolboschoenus maritimus were found in places with water stagnant at the soil level. Pulicaria dysenterica grew in inundated soil.

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Eva Čížková; Jana Navrátilová; Stanislav Martinát; Josef Navrátil; Ryan J. Frazier. Impact of Water Level on Species Quantity and Composition Grown from the Soil Seed Bank of the Inland Salt Marsh: An Ex-Situ Experiment. Land 2020, 9, 533 .

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Eva Čížková, Jana Navrátilová, Stanislav Martinát, Josef Navrátil, Ryan J. Frazier. Impact of Water Level on Species Quantity and Composition Grown from the Soil Seed Bank of the Inland Salt Marsh: An Ex-Situ Experiment. Land. 2020; 9 (12):533.

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Eva Čížková; Jana Navrátilová; Stanislav Martinát; Josef Navrátil; Ryan J. Frazier. 2020. "Impact of Water Level on Species Quantity and Composition Grown from the Soil Seed Bank of the Inland Salt Marsh: An Ex-Situ Experiment." Land 9, no. 12: 533.

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Published: 03 November 2020 in Sustainability
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Nearly every village in Central and Eastern European countries with heavily collectivized agriculture has its collective farm premises that encompass substantial parts of the village area, were built in the sixties, and now are unable to be used in former ways. The aim of the paper is to identify indicators that are relevant for spatial disparities in the utilization of agricultural premises thirty years after the fall of the Iron Curtain. The location and its area of all pre-1989 rural farm premises within two NUTS 3 regions of the Czech Republic with its current uses were identified, and differences in present uses were tested against agri-natural and socio-economic characteristics (of the municipalities where rural farm premises are located) obtained from national databases. From a global point of view, socio-economic characteristics of municipalities were found to be exceedingly more important than agri-natural—thus, changing of uses is rather dependent on socio-economic context than on geographical preconditions of agriculture. Surprisingly, agricultural use or re-use can be primarily found in municipalities not suitable for intensive agriculture located in the fodder crops and potatoes areas of agricultural production with the highest shares of permanent grassland on agricultural land. On the other hand, areas with the best preconditions for agriculture tend to re-use former farm premises for non-agricultural production.

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Josef Navrátil; Tomáš Krejčí; Stanislav Martinát; Kamil Pícha; Petr Klusáček; Jaroslav Škrabal; Robert Osman. Abandonment or Regeneration and Re-Use? Factors Affecting the Usage of Farm Premises in Different Social Spaces of the Rural. Sustainability 2020, 12, 9124 .

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Josef Navrátil, Tomáš Krejčí, Stanislav Martinát, Kamil Pícha, Petr Klusáček, Jaroslav Škrabal, Robert Osman. Abandonment or Regeneration and Re-Use? Factors Affecting the Usage of Farm Premises in Different Social Spaces of the Rural. Sustainability. 2020; 12 (21):9124.

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Josef Navrátil; Tomáš Krejčí; Stanislav Martinát; Kamil Pícha; Petr Klusáček; Jaroslav Škrabal; Robert Osman. 2020. "Abandonment or Regeneration and Re-Use? Factors Affecting the Usage of Farm Premises in Different Social Spaces of the Rural." Sustainability 12, no. 21: 9124.

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Published: 24 October 2020 in Energy Research & Social Science
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There is widespread agreement that society must urgently go over to renewable energy and that effective participation is crucial for a sustainable transition. Recent literature highlights that the quality of participatory planning is decisive for the acceptance of renewable energy technologies. However, social science research on the issue is dominated by single case studies and the quality of the participatory processes has been rarely studied across wider regional contexts. We present the results of a comparative qualitative inventory of innovative practices from 25 projects in 12 countries in three supra-national European regions. We assessed participation quality according to three analytical dimensions: rationale, inclusiveness, and participation level. An instrumental rationale, broad inclusiveness, and a participation level of consulting or informing was a combination that was commonly perceived as an innovative participatory practice in most regional contexts. We found a tendency towards more advanced practices in Western Europe, compared to Southern, and Eastern Europe. However, practices that were considered to be innovative in the latter regions still provide important lessons within their geographical contexts.

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Dina Stober; Monika Suškevičs; Sebastian Eiter; Stefanie Müller; Stanislav Martinát; Matthias Buchecker. What is the quality of participatory renewable energy planning in Europe? A comparative analysis of innovative practices in 25 projects. Energy Research & Social Science 2020, 71, 101804 .

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Dina Stober, Monika Suškevičs, Sebastian Eiter, Stefanie Müller, Stanislav Martinát, Matthias Buchecker. What is the quality of participatory renewable energy planning in Europe? A comparative analysis of innovative practices in 25 projects. Energy Research & Social Science. 2020; 71 ():101804.

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Dina Stober; Monika Suškevičs; Sebastian Eiter; Stefanie Müller; Stanislav Martinát; Matthias Buchecker. 2020. "What is the quality of participatory renewable energy planning in Europe? A comparative analysis of innovative practices in 25 projects." Energy Research & Social Science 71, no. : 101804.

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Published: 15 October 2020 in Biomass and Bioenergy
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Many environmental benefits have been claimed for anaerobic digestion (AD) facilities, embracing waste management and multiple energy vectors (generating electricity, heat and useable gas) that could be help create more circular economies. Whether these benefits are realised depends greatly on the sites exploited for AD plants and the social and geographical conditions. To examine this we assess the distribution of AD plants in Wales and the socio-demographic characteristics of the populations that live in close proximity. The results show that farm-fed ADs are predominantly located in rural villages and sparsely-populated settings, while waste-fed AD plants could be found more evenly distributed in both rural villages, towns and cities. In addition, populations living in proximity to AD plants tend to be older, frequently in families without children, and without any central heating (or with central heating based on oil or solid fuels), in neighbourhoods experiencing deprivation in access to services. Our results are significant for our understanding who could be, both positively and negatively, affected by the AD operation and how these facilities could contribute to the social development of communities. Factors affecting the realization of prospective benefits from farm-fed ADs include public sensitivities to development in these ‘rural idyll’ locations, and the economics of using AD to re-tool energy systems in more sparsely populated rural sites.

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Stanislav Martinát; Richard Cowell; Josef Navrátil. Rich or poor? Who actually lives in proximity to AD plants in Wales? Biomass and Bioenergy 2020, 143, 105799 .

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Stanislav Martinát, Richard Cowell, Josef Navrátil. Rich or poor? Who actually lives in proximity to AD plants in Wales? Biomass and Bioenergy. 2020; 143 ():105799.

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Stanislav Martinát; Richard Cowell; Josef Navrátil. 2020. "Rich or poor? Who actually lives in proximity to AD plants in Wales?" Biomass and Bioenergy 143, no. : 105799.

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Published: 01 January 2020 in Regional Studies, Regional Science
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Biogas energy has been introduced into Central and Eastern European countries (CEECs) through various incentives after their accession to the European Union in 2004. This paper contributes to an understanding of the determinants, challenges and perspectives of agricultural biogas plants in three CEECs (Poland, Slovakia, Czech Republic). Using a combination of quantitative (surveys) and qualitative (semi-structured interviews) methods, it particularly addresses varieties in public support for biogas sectors, how the relationships between biogas plants as new energy entities and their locations in rural peripheries are constructed, and how the operation of biogas plants influences local rural development. We found that as a result of various agriculture and agricultural policies in Poland, Slovakia and the Czech Republic in the second half of the 20th century, the preconditions for the incorporation of agricultural biogas plants into agriculture and rural space generally differ significantly. While in the Czech Republic and Slovakia agricultural biogas plants were usually established within large-scale agricultural farms, in Poland these are rather located off-farm. The most profound challenge for today’s biogas plants in all the CEECs studied lies in the transition from direct public incentives to a more self-sufficient business-oriented model focused on cooperation, participation and the involvement of local stakeholders in decision-making, as well as the energy utilization of locally generated agricultural waste and biowaste from households. By accommodation of these principles, agricultural biogas plants in CEECs might become a more useful and sustainable element of the rural energy transition.

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Justyna Chodkowska-Miszczuk; Stanislav Martinat; Marián Kulla; Ladislav Novotný. Renewables projects in peripheries: determinants, challenges and perspectives of biogas plants – insights from Central European countries. Regional Studies, Regional Science 2020, 7, 362 -381.

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Justyna Chodkowska-Miszczuk, Stanislav Martinat, Marián Kulla, Ladislav Novotný. Renewables projects in peripheries: determinants, challenges and perspectives of biogas plants – insights from Central European countries. Regional Studies, Regional Science. 2020; 7 (1):362-381.

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Justyna Chodkowska-Miszczuk; Stanislav Martinat; Marián Kulla; Ladislav Novotný. 2020. "Renewables projects in peripheries: determinants, challenges and perspectives of biogas plants – insights from Central European countries." Regional Studies, Regional Science 7, no. 1: 362-381.

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Published: 22 May 2019 in Energy Research & Social Science
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Anaerobic Digestion plants (AD plants) are an important part of energy transition towards low-carbon rural economies in Central European countries. However, their benefits in making rural spaces more energy sustainable and energy self-sufficient are frequently questioned. In our paper, we strive to deepen our understanding of the level of embeddedness of two modes of operation of AD plants (AD on-farm, AD off-farm) in cases of Poland and the Czech Republic. We evaluate the pros and cons of both modes and assess their importance for the local rural development and energy transition through the lens of their embeddedness in the life of rural communities. Through questionnaire surveys in two municipalities (Buczek in Poland, Stonava in the Czech Republic, n = 232) and a set of expert interviews (19) with local and regional stakeholders, we have found that AD plants are specific rural enterprises as they usually rely on local biomass resources and are generally more grounded in the local economy and in local social structures than other enterprises. We also discovered that both types of AD plants investigated create significant (but varied) linkages with local stakeholders. The awareness of ADs among local population is high and significantly influenced by previous visits to the AD plant. By providing jobs and organizing local events for the local population operators of AD plants create space for their deeper acceptability and their embeddedness into the life of rural communities, however, site-specificity and local socio-cultural contexts must be also considered.

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Justyna Chodkowska-Miszczuk; Stanislav Martinat; Richard Cowell. Community tensions, participation, and local development: Factors affecting the spatial embeddedness of anaerobic digestion in Poland and the Czech Republic. Energy Research & Social Science 2019, 55, 134 -145.

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Justyna Chodkowska-Miszczuk, Stanislav Martinat, Richard Cowell. Community tensions, participation, and local development: Factors affecting the spatial embeddedness of anaerobic digestion in Poland and the Czech Republic. Energy Research & Social Science. 2019; 55 ():134-145.

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Justyna Chodkowska-Miszczuk; Stanislav Martinat; Richard Cowell. 2019. "Community tensions, participation, and local development: Factors affecting the spatial embeddedness of anaerobic digestion in Poland and the Czech Republic." Energy Research & Social Science 55, no. : 134-145.

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Published: 11 February 2019 in Renewable Energy
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Tourism belongs to the industries with significant energy consumption. Visitors as well as hotel managers have, however, a positive attitude towards the responsible use of energy resources. The level of research on visitors' preferences of using different types of renewable energy is low, unlike findings on factual characteristics of conventional and renewable energies. That is why our aim was to assess visitors' preferences of environmentally friendly energy sources in hotels. Preferences of six types of renewable energy - "green" tariff energy, solar panels on the rooftops, solar panels on the ground, heat pumps, AD, wind turbine, were measured at four tourist destinations in the Czech Republic. The positive attitude of tourists towards the selected types of energy sources was confirmed. The highest preferences were found for solar panels installed on the rooftops. A typology of preferences was revealed by cluster analysis and differences between clusters were tested for independent variables. Clusters of visitors with a high and low interest in any type of renewable energy were identified as well as a cluster of visitors with interest in all types apart from solar panels installed on the ground - the visitor's origin was found as the main differentiation factor.

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J. Navratil; K. Picha; M. Buchecker; S. Martinat; R. Svec; M. Brezinova; J. Knotek. Visitors’ preferences of renewable energy options in “green” hotels. Renewable Energy 2019, 138, 1065 -1077.

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J. Navratil, K. Picha, M. Buchecker, S. Martinat, R. Svec, M. Brezinova, J. Knotek. Visitors’ preferences of renewable energy options in “green” hotels. Renewable Energy. 2019; 138 ():1065-1077.

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J. Navratil; K. Picha; M. Buchecker; S. Martinat; R. Svec; M. Brezinova; J. Knotek. 2019. "Visitors’ preferences of renewable energy options in “green” hotels." Renewable Energy 138, no. : 1065-1077.

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Published: 11 December 2018 in Land Use Policy
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Military training areas (MTAs) are special spatial units. Closed and inaccessible for the general public, they have been shaped by long-term military use of various potential type and intensity. Following the suspension of operation, some MTAs fell derelict and buildings and infrastructures on it become brownfields. Local municipalities will have strong interests and will care about the re-development options – either in utilising potentials or in preventing competitions. We take a Czech example and use in-depth semi-structured interviews to investigate the how local actors perceived and influenced the re-development perspectives of the former MTA Brdy, Czech Republic. This case is interesting, because international and national politics in as much as different groups of local stakeholders played significant roles in creating opportunities and for holding or pushing a re- or new development on the military brownfield land. Next to the results of the qualitative interviews with local stakeholders, we include analysis of available statistical data and information about the case study municipalities. Our contribution gives an insightful investigation about the role that local actors played in determining new uses of the former MTA in uncertain and unstable socio-economic and political conditions typical for post-communist and developing countries.

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Petr Klusáček; Stanislav Martinát; Tomáš Krejčí; Stephan Bartke. Re-development of a former military training area—The case of Brdy told from a local actors’ perspective. Land Use Policy 2018, 82, 147 -157.

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Petr Klusáček, Stanislav Martinát, Tomáš Krejčí, Stephan Bartke. Re-development of a former military training area—The case of Brdy told from a local actors’ perspective. Land Use Policy. 2018; 82 ():147-157.

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Petr Klusáček; Stanislav Martinát; Tomáš Krejčí; Stephan Bartke. 2018. "Re-development of a former military training area—The case of Brdy told from a local actors’ perspective." Land Use Policy 82, no. : 147-157.

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Published: 15 November 2018 in Land Use Policy
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The successful transition towards renewable energy (RE) technologies is closely intertwined with various societal aspects. Wind energy (WE) is one of the most controversial RE-types, possibly due to the multiplicity of related public concerns. Although some European country-comparisons exist, research concerning acceptance factors in different political and cultural planning contexts is scarce, especially in Eastern and Southern Europe. This paper explores the variation of (1) acceptance issues across Europe, and (2) patterns of strategic and local planning in affecting WE acceptance. We conducted an expert survey among the members of the COST Action ‘Renewable Energy and Landscape Quality’ and the association Wind Energy Europe. We found that acceptance issues – as perceived by the experts – across different regions in Europe share certain similarities, such as concerns about landscape impacts. The priority-levels of acceptance issues are specific to each region and link to the planning quality in that context. Planners’ and decision-makers’ increased awareness about the diversity of acceptance issues would allow them to design more appropriate strategic and local planning processes.

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M. Suškevičs; S. Eiter; S. Martinat; D. Stober; E. Vollmer; C.L. de Boer; M. Buchecker. Regional variation in public acceptance of wind energy development in Europe: What are the roles of planning procedures and participation? Land Use Policy 2018, 81, 311 -323.

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M. Suškevičs, S. Eiter, S. Martinat, D. Stober, E. Vollmer, C.L. de Boer, M. Buchecker. Regional variation in public acceptance of wind energy development in Europe: What are the roles of planning procedures and participation? Land Use Policy. 2018; 81 ():311-323.

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M. Suškevičs; S. Eiter; S. Martinat; D. Stober; E. Vollmer; C.L. de Boer; M. Buchecker. 2018. "Regional variation in public acceptance of wind energy development in Europe: What are the roles of planning procedures and participation?" Land Use Policy 81, no. : 311-323.

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Published: 01 September 2018 in Energy Policy
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Policies and strategies to develop renewable energy and the rates of successful deployment vary from country to country. Academic literature is rife with examples of recurring problems and malpractice in the implementation of renewable energy projects. We could see each national and sectoral effort as an ‘experiment’ in the early phase of our attempted transition to a low carbon energy system. What lessons can we learn from a comparative analysis of these experiments? This paper seeks to draw generic lessons not from what has gone wrong but from national case studies that stand out in a best way. Through a European academic network, we have selected and analysed 51 ‘smart practice’ case studies of renewable energy development from 20 countries. We present the outcomes of both qualitative and quantitative analysis of these case studies (smart practice criteria) and discuss a set of generic findings concerning specific types of smart practices and problems of potential transferability of projects to other regions. With regards to policy relevance, the findings can be used for evaluating portfolios of renewable energy projects developed to date and for setting guiding principles for project design, spatial planning and consent by means of cross-national learning and fertilization.

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Bohumil Frantál; Dan Van Der Horst; Stanislav Martinát; Serge Schmitz; Na´ama Teschner; Luís Silva; Mojca Golobic; Michael Roth. Spatial targeting, synergies and scale: Exploring the criteria of smart practices for siting renewable energy projects. Energy Policy 2018, 120, 85 -93.

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Bohumil Frantál, Dan Van Der Horst, Stanislav Martinát, Serge Schmitz, Na´ama Teschner, Luís Silva, Mojca Golobic, Michael Roth. Spatial targeting, synergies and scale: Exploring the criteria of smart practices for siting renewable energy projects. Energy Policy. 2018; 120 ():85-93.

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Bohumil Frantál; Dan Van Der Horst; Stanislav Martinát; Serge Schmitz; Na´ama Teschner; Luís Silva; Mojca Golobic; Michael Roth. 2018. "Spatial targeting, synergies and scale: Exploring the criteria of smart practices for siting renewable energy projects." Energy Policy 120, no. : 85-93.

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Published: 01 July 2018 in Land Use Policy
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Josef Navratil; Kamil Picha; Stanislav Martinat; Paul C. Nathanail; Kamila Tureckova; Andrea Holesinska. Resident’s preferences for urban brownfield revitalization: Insights from two Czech cities. Land Use Policy 2018, 76, 224 -234.

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Josef Navratil, Kamil Picha, Stanislav Martinat, Paul C. Nathanail, Kamila Tureckova, Andrea Holesinska. Resident’s preferences for urban brownfield revitalization: Insights from two Czech cities. Land Use Policy. 2018; 76 ():224-234.

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Josef Navratil; Kamil Picha; Stanislav Martinat; Paul C. Nathanail; Kamila Tureckova; Andrea Holesinska. 2018. "Resident’s preferences for urban brownfield revitalization: Insights from two Czech cities." Land Use Policy 76, no. : 224-234.

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Published: 13 June 2018 in Sustainability
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The issue of brownfield regeneration is closely connected to balanced and sustainable development of regions, towns, and cities as it endeavors to reuse buildings and sites that have already lost their original use, but at the same time offers a possibility to generate new beneficial activities for the whole society that exceed just material or physical changes of the brownfield sites. The regeneration of every brownfield is usually a highly site-specific issue and individual and unique impacts of regeneration on the particular locality are obvious. Yet, several patterns in sets of non-regenerated brownfields can be identified. By finding and defining such patterns, a framework of indicators to facilitate brownfield regeneration can be created and the importance and strength of a particular indicator can be defined. By means of the analyses, we are able to recommend various relevant and most suitable approaches with regards to brownfield regeneration in individual regions. We have employed Factor Analysis (FA) for the identification of key factors of brownfield regeneration. In particular, Principal Component Analysis (PCA) was applied to conduct analyses of 1304 non-regenerated brownfields located in seven regions of the Czech Republic (NUTS 3 level). Data were obtained from publicly available brownfield databases of individual regional administrations. By means of Factor Analysis, it was ascertained that the most frequent factor that is typical for the surveyed non-regenerated brownfields is the ownership. The second most frequent factor is the size of the brownfields. As the third factor according to importance, the distance between the location of the individual brownfield and the municipality of extended powers (the so-called small district) was identified. By taking into account the results of the conducted analyses, brownfield regeneration policies of individual regions might be adapted to be more suitably targeted.

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Kamila Turečková; Jan Nevima; Jaroslav Škrabal; Stanislav Martinát. Uncovering Patterns of Location of Brownfields to Facilitate Their Regeneration: Some Remarks from the Czech Republic. Sustainability 2018, 10, 1984 .

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Kamila Turečková, Jan Nevima, Jaroslav Škrabal, Stanislav Martinát. Uncovering Patterns of Location of Brownfields to Facilitate Their Regeneration: Some Remarks from the Czech Republic. Sustainability. 2018; 10 (6):1984.

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Kamila Turečková; Jan Nevima; Jaroslav Škrabal; Stanislav Martinát. 2018. "Uncovering Patterns of Location of Brownfields to Facilitate Their Regeneration: Some Remarks from the Czech Republic." Sustainability 10, no. 6: 1984.

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Published: 01 May 2018 in Science of The Total Environment
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The regeneration of brownfields has been increasingly recognized as a key instrument in sustainable land management, since free developable land (or so called "greenfields") has become a scare and more expensive resource, especially in densely populated areas. However, the complexity of these sites requires considerable efforts to successfully complete their revitalization projects, thus requiring the development and application of appropriate tools to support decision makers in the selection of promising sites where efficiently allocate the limited financial resources. The design of effective prioritization tools is a complex process, which requires the analysis and consideration of critical points of attention (PoAs) which has been identified considering the state of the art in literature, and lessons learned from previous developments of regional brownfield (BF) prioritization processes, frameworks and tools. Accordingly, we identified 5 PoAs, namely 1) Assessing end user needs and orientation discussions, 2) Availability and quality of the data needed for the BF prioritization tool, 3) Communication and stakeholder engagement 4) Drivers of regeneration success, and 5) Financing and application costs. To deepen and collate the most recent knowledge on the topics from scientists and practitioners, we organized a focus group discussion within a special session at the AquaConSoil (ACS) conference 2017, where participants were asked to add their experience and thoughts to the discussion in order to identify the most significant and urgent points of attention in BF prioritization tool design. The result of this assessment is a comprehensive table (Table 2), which can support problem owners, investors, service providers, regulators, public and private land managers, decision makers etc. in the identification of the main aspects (sub-topics) to be considered and their relative influences and in the comprehension of the general patterns and challenges to be faced when dealing with the development of BF prioritization tools.

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Elsa Limasset; Lisa Pizzol; Corinne Merly; Annette M. Gatchett; Cecile LE Guern; Stanislav Martinát; Petr Klusáček; Stephan Bartke. Points of attention in designing tools for regional brownfield prioritization. Science of The Total Environment 2018, 622-623, 997 -1008.

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Elsa Limasset, Lisa Pizzol, Corinne Merly, Annette M. Gatchett, Cecile LE Guern, Stanislav Martinát, Petr Klusáček, Stephan Bartke. Points of attention in designing tools for regional brownfield prioritization. Science of The Total Environment. 2018; 622-623 ():997-1008.

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Elsa Limasset; Lisa Pizzol; Corinne Merly; Annette M. Gatchett; Cecile LE Guern; Stanislav Martinát; Petr Klusáček; Stephan Bartke. 2018. "Points of attention in designing tools for regional brownfield prioritization." Science of The Total Environment 622-623, no. : 997-1008.

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Published: 01 April 2018 in Cities
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Josef Navratil; Tomas Krejci; Stanislav Martinat; Martin J. Pasqualetti; Petr Klusáček; Bohumil Frantal; Klara Tochackova. Brownfields do not “only live twice”: The possibilities for heritage preservation and the enlargement of leisure time activities in Brno, the Czech Republic. Cities 2018, 74, 52 -63.

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Josef Navratil, Tomas Krejci, Stanislav Martinat, Martin J. Pasqualetti, Petr Klusáček, Bohumil Frantal, Klara Tochackova. Brownfields do not “only live twice”: The possibilities for heritage preservation and the enlargement of leisure time activities in Brno, the Czech Republic. Cities. 2018; 74 ():52-63.

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Josef Navratil; Tomas Krejci; Stanislav Martinat; Martin J. Pasqualetti; Petr Klusáček; Bohumil Frantal; Klara Tochackova. 2018. "Brownfields do not “only live twice”: The possibilities for heritage preservation and the enlargement of leisure time activities in Brno, the Czech Republic." Cities 74, no. : 52-63.