Petr Pavlínek
Professor

Petr Pavlínek's research and writing deal primarily with two broad areas of geography. First, he is interested in the geographical and environmental implications of current global restructuring at different geographical scales. In this area, his research has so far focused on the geographical and environmental effects of the post-socialist transformations in Central and Eastern Europe and in Czechia and Slovakia in particular. Second, he is interested in theoretical approaches toward transformation and restructuring and their geographical and environmental effects, including political economy approaches and regulation theory. He has written recently on political economy of environment in Central and Eastern Europe, automotive industry restructuring in Central and Eastern Europe, and on regional effects of foreign direct investment in Central Europe. He is currently working on a project dealing with the automotive industry restructuring in Central and Eastern Europe with a specific focus on the Czech automotive industry. Petr is teaching a number of human geography classes at the Department of Geography and Geology including political geography, geography of economic globalization and regional courses. He also leads graduate seminars in economic geography, political economy of East European transformation and global political economy.

ppavlinek@mail.unomaha.edu