Land use and landscape changes in Czechia during the period of transition 1990–2007
Open Access
- 1 January 2009
- journal article
- Published by Czech Geographical Society in Geografie
- Vol. 114 (4), 263-281
- https://doi.org/10.37040/geografie2009114040263
Abstract
The article analyzes land use changes and their influence on landscape development in Czechia during the complex period of transition after 1990 to a democratic system with a capitalist economy. To analyze the database of cadastral data on land use of about 13,000 comparable basic territorial units (CTU) and their regional differentiation the typology method (the establishment of types of changes in CTUs and their portion of all CTUs) was used above all. At the same time tables follow the periods which formed over the long-term the preceding land use situation in Czechia at the start of the transition (1845–1948 and 1948–1990). Ascertained changes and trends in land use changes are then interpreted on the basis of searching out and explaining the main political, economic and social factors (or societal driving forces) that caused them. Their interaction with natural conditions is taken into account as well.Keywords
Funding Information
- Ministerstvo Školství, Mládeže a Tělovýchovy (MSM 0021620831)
- Grantová Agentura České Republiky (205/09/0995)
- Akademie Věd České Republiky (KJB301110705)
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