CZECHIA: CHANGES IN LANDSCAPE USE IN THE TRANSFORMATION PERIOD
This article analyzes processes of land use changes realized in transformational period after 1990 in Czechia. Land use Czechia database is a source having six time horizons for almost 9000 cadasters or joined cadasters covering all territory of Czechia. Time horizons give us chance to compare trend...
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| Language: | English |
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Publishing House of the Romanian Academy
2014-12-01
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| Series: | Revue Roumaine de Géographie |
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| Online Access: | http://www.rjgeo.ro/atasuri/revue%20roumaine%2059_1/Bicik%20et%20al..pdf |
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| Summary: | This article analyzes processes of land use changes realized in transformational period after 1990 in Czechia. Land use Czechia database is a source having six time horizons for almost 9000 cadasters or joined cadasters covering all territory of Czechia. Time horizons give us chance to compare trends of land use changes among them – 1845, 1896, 1948, 1990, 2000 and 2010. This article uses mainly data form 1990 and 2010. In this period we observed relatively huge increase of grassland (meadows and pastures) influenced by abolishing of socialist support of agriculture shortly after 1990 and following decrease of agricultural intensity. We are concerned also on the regional trends in land use structure changes in Czechia. We used special methods (index of change, typology of change, main landscape change prepared earlier by Slovenian authors: Kladnik, Gabrovec, Petek). Transformational changes in land use show continuation of earlier started trends but in different intensity and shorter time. Main driving forces are differential land rent I, II. Main regional differences are visible between lowlands and regions of higher altitude, in lower level plays important role distance from main core regions and main axis of social economic development. There is important long term creation of special typological regions of specific land use structure and also its development. This process is influenced by new functions given to different parts of landscape in modernization of Society in last two centuries. |
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| ISSN: | 1220-5311 |