GEOGRAFIE - SBORNIK CESKE GEOGRAFICKE SPOLECNOSTI ROK 2001 • CISLO 1 • ROCNIK 106 MIROSLAV MARADA VYMEZENl PERIFERNlCH OBLASTI CESKA A STUDIUM JEJICH ZNAKU POMOCI STATISTICKE ANALYZY M. Mar a d a: Delimitation of peripheral regions of Czeshia and their features studied with the help of statistical analysis. - Geografie - Sbornik CGS, 106, 1, pp. 12 - 24 (2001). The paper examines the possibilities of using statistical analysis when studying peripheral regions on the case of Czechia. At first, peripheral districts were delimited with the help of componental analysis on the basis of six indices. The only extracted component is interpreted and the distribution of districts component scores is depicted in a cartogram. Peripheral regions are shortly commented. Secondly, the calculated componental score was correlated to the districts location indices and to the physical geographical characteristics in view to describe the impact of natural conditions and geographic position on the current location of peripheral and core territories. The attention is also paid to the correlations of the componental score to the selected social economic indices and the established relations are commented. Finally, the author tries to formulate a definition of peripheral region under the conditions of the Czech Republic. KEY WORDS: core - periphery - district - componental analysis - correlation. Clanek vznikl v ramci projektu "Perspektivy vYvoje perifernich oblasti vCR" Grantove agentury Univerzity Karlovy, grant c. 126/1998&1. Autor clanku dekuje agentufe za podporu. Uvod Studiu perifernich oblasti, resp. neexponovanych Ci problemovych oblasti, se ceska geograficka literatura venuje intenzivneji teprve v P9slednich letech. Souvisi to predevsim s faktem, ze regionalni rozdily uvnitr Ceska byly cent- ralnim planovanim v socialistickem obdobi znacne nivelizovany. Teprve spo- lecensko-politicke zmeny po roce 1989 vedly k citelnemu zvysovani regional- nich disparit (zprvu patrnych predevsim v Il!ire nezamestnanosti), a tedy i k postupne marginalizaci nekterych uzemi Ceska. S timto norym stavem prichazi v 90. letech i zajem 0 studium perifernich, venkovskych (napr. R. Per- lin, 1998; vycleiiovani oblasti se stizenymi podminkami pro hospo- dareni MZ CR) a prihranicnich oblasti (v soucasnosti napr. grantovy ukol GA OR; Geonika Brno aj.). Uz na konci 80. let se problematice perifernich oblasti venovalo nekolik au- toru. Napr. J. Musil (1988) aM. Illner (1988) studovali problem predevsim ze socialnich hledisek na radovostni urovni regionu nizsi nez okresni (uZili tzv. generelovych jednotek). Shodne pak konstatuji, ze periferie casto sleduji po- lohu administrativnich hranic kraju. Periferni oblasti byly casto vycleiiovany jako doplnek k uzemim jadrovym, exponovanym (napr. Hampl, Kuhnl, Gar- davsky, 1987). Vetsina praci vymezovala periferie pouze na zaklade nekolika kriterii (napr. z hlediska zapojeni do sidelni struktury ci z hledisek migrac- nich), nikoli z pohledu komplexniho. Teoretickym pfistupum ke stu diu pola- 12