Research/art/teacher profile of a person
Name and surname:
prof. RNDr. Ján Buček, CSc.
Document type:
Research/art/teacher profile of a person
The name of the university:
Comenius University Bratislava
The seat of the university:
Šafárikovo námestie 6, 818 06 Bratislava

I. - Basic information

I.1 - Surname
Buček
I.2 - Name
Ján
I.3 - Degrees
prof. RNDr. CSc.
I.4 - Year of birth
1963
I.5 - Name of the workplace
Comenius University, Faculty of Natural Sciences, Department of Economic and Social Geography, Demography and Territorial Development
I.6 - Address of the workplace
Mlynská dolina, Ilkovičova 6, 842 15 Bratislava 4
I.7 - Position
professor
I.8 - E-mail address
jan.bucek@uniba.sk
I.9 - Hyperlink to the entry of a person in the Register of university staff
https://www.portalvs.sk/regzam/detail/4181
I.10 - Name of the study field in which a person works at the university
Earth Sciences
I.11 - ORCID iD
0000-0002-6031-6686

II. - Higher education and further qualification growth

II.1 - First degree of higher education
II.2 - Second degree of higher education
II.a - Name of the university or institution
Faculty of Natural Sciences, Comenius University, Bratislava
II.b - Year
1986
II.c - Study field and programme
economic geography
II.3 - Third degree of higher education
II.a - Name of the university or institution
Faculty of Natural Sciences, Comenius University, Bratislava
II.b - Year
1996
II.c - Study field and programme
economic geography
II.4 - Associate professor
II.a - Name of the university or institution
Faculty of Natural Sciences, Comenius University, Bratislava
II.b - Year
2005
II.c - Study field and programme
human geography
II.5 - Professor
II.a - Name of the university or institution
Faculty of Natural Sciences, Comenius University, Bratislava
II.b - Year
2019
II.c - Study field and programme
human geography
II.6 - Doctor of Science (DrSc.)

III. - Current and previous employment

III.a - Occupation-position III.b - Institution III.c - Duration
researcher Faculty of Natural Sciences, Comenius University, Bratislava 1986-2005
associate professor Faculty of Natural Sciences, Comenius University, Bratislava 2005-2019
professor Faculty of Natural Sciences, Comenius University, Bratislava since 2019 - present

IV. - Development of pedagogical, professional, language, digital and other skills

IV.a - Activity description, course name, other IV.b - Name of the institution IV.c - Year
EC TEMPUS Training Summer School - Elements in Political Sciences (10 weeks) Masaryk University Brno 1991
PHARE training in European Competition Law Policy and State Aid (two weeks) European Public Law Centre, Athens 1996

V. - Overview of activities within the teaching career at the university

V.1 - Overview of the profile courses taught in the current academic year according to study programmes
V.1.a - Name of the profile course V.1.b - Study programme V.1.c - Degree V.1.d - Field of study
Urban economics, local finance and development Economic and political geography and demography I. Earth Sciences
Political geography and geopolitics basics Economic and political geography and demography I. Earth Sciences
Society, economy, space Teaching Training for Geography in Combination I. Teacher Training and Education Science
Political geography Economic and social geography, demography and territorial development II. Earth Sciences
Geography, public policy and urban development Economic and social geography, demography and territorial development II. Earth Sciences
V.2 - Overview of the responsibility for the delivery, development and quality assurance of the study programme or its part at the university in the current academic year
V.2.a - Name of the study programme V.2.b - Degree V.2.c - Field of study
Economic and Political geography and Demography I. Earth Sciences
Economic and Social Geography, Demography and Territorial Development II. Earth Sciences
Human Geography and Demography III. Earth Sciences
V.3 - Overview of the responsibility for the development and quality of the field of habilitation procedure and inaugural procedure in the current academic year
V.3.a - Name of the field of habilitation procedure and inaugural procedure V.3.b - Study field to which it is assigned
geography Earth Sciences
V.4 - Overview of supervised final theses
V.4.1 - Number of currently supervised theses
V.4.a - Bachelor's (first degree)
4
V.4.b - Diploma (second degree)
1
V.4.c - Dissertation (third degree)
2
V.4.2 - Number of defended theses
V.4.a - Bachelor's (first degree)
54
V.4.b - Diploma (second degree)
95
V.4.c - Dissertation (third degree)
5
V.5 - Overview of other courses taught in the current academic year according to study programmes
V.5.a - Name of the course V.5.b - Study programme V.5.c - Degree V.5.d - Field of study
Economics and public finance for geographers Economic and political geography and demography I. Earth Sciences
Economics for geographers Geography, regional development and European integration; I. Earth Sciences
Urban economics, local finance and development Geography, regional development and European integration I. Earth Sciences
Bachelor thesis seminar 1 - 2 Economic and political geography and demography I. Earth Sciences
Bachelor thesis in geography and demography 1 - 2 Economic and political geography and demography I. Earth Sciences

VI. - Overview of the research/artistic/other outputs

VI.1 - Overview of the research/artistic/other outputs and the corresponding citations
VI.1.1 - Number of the research/artistic/other outputs
VI.1.a - Overall
135
VI.1.b - Over the last six years
5
VI.1.2 - Number of the research/artistic/other outputs registered in the Web of Science or Scopus databases
VI.1.a - Overall
35
VI.1.b - Over the last six years
5
VI.1.3 - Number of citations corresponding to the research/artistic/other outputs
VI.1.a - Overall
578
VI.1.b - Over the last six years
107
VI.1.4 - Number of citations registered in the Web of Science or Scopus databases
VI.1.a - Overall
226
VI.1.b - Over the last six years
101
VI.1.5 - Number of invited lectures at the international, national level
VI.1.a - Overall
8
VI.1.b - Over the last six years
0
VI.2 - The most significant research/artistic/other outputs
1

Surazska, W., Buček, J., Malíková, Ľ., Daněk, P, 1997 Towards regional government in Central Europe : territorial restructuring of postcommunist regimes. Environment and Planning C: Government and Policy. Vol. 14, No. 4, s. 437-462.    

2

Buček, J., Smith, B. 2000. New approaches to local democracy: direct democracy, participation and the 'third sector'. Environment and Planning C: Government and Policy. Vol. 18, No. 1, s. 3-16.

3

Baldersheim, H., Bucek, J., Swianiewicz, P. 2002. Mayors learning across borders: the international networks of municipalities in East-Central Europe. Regional & Federal Studies, 12, 1, 126-137.

4

Buček, J., Bleha, B. 2013. Urban shrinkage as a challenge to local development planning in Slovakia. Moravian Geographical Reports. 21, 1, 2-15. 

5

Buček, J. 2017. Why and When Countries Implement Local Public Administration Reforms: A Long-Term View of Reform Dynamics in Slovakia, 1990-2015. In: Silva, C.N., Buček, J. eds. Local Government and Urban Governance in Europe. Cham: Springer International Publishing. s. 33-70. (ABA)    

VI.3 - The most significant research/artistic/other outputs over the last six years
1

Buček, J. 2022. Local Self-Government and Governance During Covid-19 Pandemic in Slovakia. In: Silva, C. N. ed. Local Government and the COVID-19 Pandemic - A Global Perspective. Cham: Springer. pp. 481-505.

2

Buček, J., Bleha, B., Richter, M. 2022. Coping with shrinkage in old and young mining cities of Slovakia: The cases of Banská Štiavnica and Prievidza. In: Wu, C.-T., Gunko, M., Stryjakiewicz, T., Zhou, K. eds. Postsocialist Shrinking Cities. Routledge. pp. 276-294.

3

Plešivčák, M. - Klobučník, M. - Buček, J. - Bačík, V. 2022. Malé obce či veľké mestá – kde majú bližšie k svojim občanom? Geografia legitimity moci po komunálnych voľbách.(Small Villages or Cities - Where are they Closer to their Citizens? Geography of Legitimacy after Elections of Mayors). Sociológia, Vol. 54, No. 3, pp.217-243.

4

Bleha, B., Buček, J. 2024. Depopulation differences in Slovak former mining cities. The role of geographical conditions and local interventions. Papers in Applied Geography, 10(1), 34-52. https://doi.org/10.1080/23754931.2023.2255872

5

Buček, J., Plešivčák, M., Bačík, V. 2024. One hundred years of national capital-making: The case of Bratislava, Slovakia. Quaestiones Geographicae, 43(4):49-63, doi: 10.14746/quageo-2024-0043

VI.4 - The most significant citations corresponding to the research/artistic/other outputs
1

Rodríguez-Pose, A., Sandall, R. 2008. From identity to the economy: analysing the evolution of the decentralisation discourse. ENVIRONMENT AND PLANNING C: GOVERNMENT AND POLICY, 26(1), 54-72. citovaná práca/cited study: Buček, J., Smith, B. (2000). New approaches to local democracy: Direct democracy, participation and the ‘third sector’. Environment and Planning C: Government and Policy, 18(1), 3-16.

2

Clarke, N. 2009. In what sense ‘spaces of neoliberalism’? The new localism, the new politics of scale, and town twinning. POLITICAL GEOGRAPHY, 28, 8, 496-507. citovaná práca/cited study: Baldersheim, H., Buček, J., Swianiewicz, P. (2002). Mayors learning across borders: the international networks of municipalities in East-Central Europe. Regional & Federal Studies, 12(1), 126-137.

3

Schakel, A. H. 2015. Nationalisation of regional elections in Central and Eastern Europe. EAST EUROPEAN POLITICS, 31(2), 229-247. citovaná práca/cited work: Buček, J. 2002. Regionalization in the Slovak Republic - from administrative to political regions. In: Regionalization for Development and Accession to the European Union: A Comparative Perspective. - Budapest: Local Government and Public Service Reform Initiative, 2002. - S. 141-178 

4

Oliveira, E., Hersperger, A. M. 2018. Governance arrangements, funding mechanisms and power configurations in current practices of strategic spatial plan implementation. LAND USE POLICY, 76, 623-633. citovaná práca/cited work: Buček, J. 2016. Urban development policy challenges in East-Central Europe: governance, city regions and financialisation. Quaestiones Geographicae, 35(2), 7-26.

5

Escudero-Gomez, L. A., Garcia-Gonzalez, J. A., Martinez-Navarro, J. M. (2023). What is happening in shrinking medium-sized cities? A correlational analysis and a multiple linear regression model on the case of Spain. Cities, 134, 104205. citovaná práca/cited work: Buček, J., Bleha, B. (2013): Urban Shrinkage as a Challenge to Local Development Planning in Slovakia. Moravian Geographical Reports, Vol. 21, No. 1, p. 2–15.

VI.5 - Participation in conducting (leading) the most important research projects or art projects over the last six years
1

2017-2019 YOUMIG (Interreg - Danube Transnational Programme) - Improving institutional capacities and fostering cooperation to tackle the impacts of transnational youth migration (2017-2019), external expert, info: http://www.interreg-danube.eu/approved-projects/youmig /The project aimed at boosting institutional capacities to enhance the scarce local evidence on youth migration, contributing to improved policymaking with a focus on human capital, understanding of youth migration patterns, assisting in local migration indicators development and tailored local development strategies.

2

APVV VV-17-0079 -Analysis and forecast of demographic development of the Slovak Republic in the horizon 2080: identification and modelling of impacts on socioeconomic spheres in different spatial scales (Slovak Research and Development Agency - SRDA) - investigator The project focused on analyses and predictions of demographic development and impacts on the localities, regions and the national level, the output were several simulations and variants of demographic development up to the horizon of 2100.

3

2020-2022 - VEGA 1/0278/20 - The relation of legitimacy, governance and public finance at the local level in Slovakia in geographical perspective - investigator (deputy chair of the project) Project covers less deeply analysed issues of legitimacy at the local level. It contributes to basic conceptual framework, focuses of legitimacy of key local actors (e.g. mayors), pay attention to spatial and size differences, stability, develop typology at the level of local governments.

4

2023-2025 - VEGA 1/0252/23 - Resilience of spatial systems - its factors, differentiation and consequences - The project focuses on examining various characteristics of spatial systems, especially their resilience and ability to absorb, mitigate the impact of, or adapt to the challenges of recent decades such as economic crises, climate change, the COVID pandemic, demographic changes (and their mutual interdependencies) - project leader.

5

2024-2027 - APVV-23-0062 - Depopulation and destabilization? Forecasts and simulations of demographic development in the Slovak Republic until the end of the 21st century and modeling of its selected impacts - The project focuses on the analysis of demographic processes and structures applying new methods and knowledge, preparation of new demographic forecasts and simulations of demographic development, selected human-geographical and social implications of demographic changes.

VII. - Overview of organizational experience related to higher education and research/artistic/other activities

VII.a - Activity, position VII.b - Name of the institution, board VII.c - Duration
Commission Chair International Geographical Union - Commission on Geography of Governance 2008-2016
Steering Committee member International Geographical Union - Commission on Geography of Governance 2016-2020
Honorary member International Geographical Union - Commission on Geography of Governance od 2020
executive committee member, vice-president Slovak Geographical Society 2010-2018; 2010-2014
Scientific Board of the Faculty - member Faculty of Natural Sciences, Comenius University since 2019

VIII. - Overview of international mobilities and visits oriented on education and research/artistic/other activities in the given field of study

VIII.a - Name of the institution VIII.b - Address of the institution VIII.c - Duration (indicate the duration of stay) VIII.d - Mobility scheme, employment contract, other (describe)
London School of Economics and Political Sciences London, Great Britain 01/1992-04/1992 (one trimester) academic visitor (scholarship)
University of Cambridge Cambridge, Great Britain 10/1997-09/1998 (one year) fellowship (GSFI/Pew Fellow)
University of Bergen Bergen, Nórsko/Norway 02/1995 (two weeks) short research stay
Local Government and Public Service Reform Initiative Budapest, Hungary 1/2001-12/2001 (one year) fellowship (LGI Policy Fellow)

IX. - Other relevant facts

IX.a - If relevant, other activities related to higher education or research/artistic/other activities are mentioned

Note 1 during my working career I was reviewer for example in following journals: British Journal of Political Science, Cities, Europen Planning Studies, European Urban and Regional Studies, Environment and Planning C - Government and Policy, Geografiska Annaler: Human Geography, Land Use Policy, Local Government Studies, Mitteilungen der Österreichischen Geographischen Gesellschaft, Tijdschrift voor Economische en Sociale Geografie, Urban Design International, Urban Studies.  

Note 2. RNDR. - 1987 Comenius University Bratislava. 

Date of last update
2025-03-20