Profile: Richard Filčák, Mgr., MSc. PhD., Researcher

    Research Field

    • Forecasting, foresight and scenario development in the field of climate change and environment
    • Economic and social aspects of climate change
    • Decarbonisation strategies at national and regional level
    • Poverty in the context of access to infrastructure and natural resources
    • Environmental justice

    Forecasts, Prospects, Analyzes, Strategies

    • Research mainly on modeling and scenarios of how climate change will affect the economy and the social context in the context of environmental change. The second part of the activities with high relevance for the field of prospective studies is the decarbonisation of the economy related to the carbon neutrality plan until 2050.

    Concise Profile

    Richard Filčák is Deputy Director of CSPV and Head of the Institute of Forecasting at SAS. His research and work has been focused on climate change in its economic-social dimensions, research on poverty and the environment, environmental justice and development strategies on energy, decarbonisation and the transition to a low-carbon and circular economy. He studied at the Faculty of Science, Comenius University and at the University of Lund, Sweden. He defended his doctorate at the Central European University (CEU) in Budapest. He was visiting scholar in India, at the University of London and in Joint Research Institute (JRC) of the EU in Seville. He works in the field of development policy evaluation, focusing on the European programs of economic and social cohesion. He coordinates and participate in the APVV and Horizon 2020 projects and cooperates with the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister of the Slovak Republic for Informatics and Investment in the evaluation of ESIF programming periods and their planning. Richard is the coordinator of the Slovak National Reference Center (NRC) for the Development of Forward-Looking Information and Services (FLIS). The Center works in cooperation with the Slovak Environmental Agency and the European Environment Agency in Copenhagen. He leads projects and collaborated on development activities in Central Europe, the Balkans, Ukraine, Russia, Georgia and Turkey. He is a national expert for evaluation and socio-economic analysis in projects of the European Commission (DG-REGIO) and an affiliated in the Expert Roster member for Human Development and Poverty Monitoring of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP). As an external consultant, he has worked with the World Bank, the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP), the European Environment Agency (EEB) and various NGOs.

    Scientific Projects

      Selected Publishing Activity

        BALÁŽ, Vladimír - DOKUPILOVÁ, Dušana - FILČÁK, Richard. Participatory multi-criteria methods for adaptation to climate change. In Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies for Global Change : an international journal devoted to scientific, engineering, socio-economic and policy responses to environmental change, 2021, vol. 26, no. 4, art. no. 15. (2020: 3.583 - IF, Q2 - JCR, 0.994 - SJR, Q1 - SJR, karentované - CCC). (2021 - Current Contents). ISSN 1381-2386. Dostupné na: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11027-021-09955-4 (VEGA č. 2/0002/18 : Inštitucionálne rámce ekonomického rozvoja SR v novej etape globalizácie)

        DOKUPILOVÁ, Dušana - FILČÁK, Richard. Regional disparities as roots of energy poverty in Slovakia. In Perspectives on Energy Poverty in Post-Communist Europe. - London ; New York, N.Y. : Routledge, 2021, p. 206-221. ISBN 978-0-367-43052-8. Dostupné na: https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003000976-14

        FILČÁK, Richard - FICERI, Ondrej. Making the Ghetto at Luník IX in Slovakia: People, Landfill, and the Myth of the Urban Green Space. In Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review, 2021, roč. 57, č. 3, s. 293-313. (2020: 0.588 - IF, Q4 - JCR, 0.262 - SJR, Q3 - SJR, karentované - CCC). (2021 - Current Contents, SCOPUS, WOS). ISSN 0038-0288. Dostupné na: https://doi.org/10.13060/csr.2021.020 (APVV-17-0141 : Analýza bariér prístupu k pracovným príležitostiam pre marginalizované skupiny obyvateľstva: Vybrané regióny Slovenska v sociálno-ekonomickej, geografickej a sociálno-antropologickej perspektíve. Vega č. 2/0084/19 : Luník IX - dejiny, súčasnosť a perspektívy rómskeho sídliska)

        FILČÁK, Richard - ŠKOBLA, Daniel. Sanitation Infrastructure at the Systemic Edge: Segregated Roma Settlements and Multiple Health Risks in Slovakia. In International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 2021, vol. 18, art. no. 6079. (2020: 3.390 - IF, Q1 - JCR, 0.747 - SJR, Q2 - SJR, karentované - CCC). (2021 - Current Contents). ISSN 1660-4601. Dostupné na: https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph18116079 (APVV-17-0141 : Analýza bariér prístupu k pracovným príležitostiam pre marginalizované skupiny obyvateľstva: Vybrané regióny Slovenska v sociálno-ekonomickej, geografickej a sociálno-antropologickej perspektíve)

        FILČÁK, Richard - ROCHOVSKÁ, Alena - HORŇÁK, Marcel. Evaluation of Slovakia’s R1 expressway enhancement impacts on local socio-economic development: expert panel approach. In Geografie : sborník České geografické společnosti, 2021, roč. 126, č. 1, s. 29-53. (2020: 0.744 - IF, Q4 - JCR, 0.238 - SJR, Q3 - SJR). ISSN 1212-0014. Dostupné na: https://doi.org/10.37040/geografie2021126010029 (APVV-17-0141 : Analýza bariér prístupu k pracovným príležitostiam pre marginalizované skupiny obyvateľstva: Vybrané regióny Slovenska v sociálno-ekonomickej, geografickej a sociálno-antropologickej perspektíve)

        FILČÁK, Richard - ŠKOBLA, Daniel. Where the Pipelines End: The Roma and Access to Basic Sanitation in the Slovak Republic. In Gypsy Lore Society Annual Meeting and Conference on Romani Studies : Book of Abstracts. - Praha : Charles University, Faculty of Arts : Slovak Academy of Sciences, Institute of Ethnology and Social Anthropology, 2021, s. 84. ISBN 978-80-7671-036-8. (Gypsy Lore Society Annual Meeting and Conference on Romani Studies)

        KOTOROVÁ SLUŠNÁ, Ľubica - BALOG, Miroslav - BALÁŽ, Vladimír - NEMCOVÁ, Edita - FILČÁK, Richard - JECK, Tomáš - ANTOŠOVÁ, Martina. Rise of Biobanking in the EU: Evidence from the Framework Programmes. In WSEAS Transactions on Business and Economics, 2021, vol. 18, pp. 1304-1318. (2020: 0.158 - SJR, Q4 - SJR). ISSN 1109-9526. Dostupné na: https://doi.org/10.37394/23207.2021.18.121 (ITMS: NFP313010AFG5 : Systémová verejná výskumná infraštruktúra - biobanka pre nádorové a zriedkavé ochorenia)

        Filcak Richard