Land Use Changes in the Czech Republic 1845–2010
Socio-Economic Driving Forces
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Beschreibung
The objective of this book is to analyze changes in the landscape of Czechoslovakia / the Czech Republic since the first half of the 19th century. The text focuses not only on describing these considerable changes by means of statistical and spatial data, but also on explaining the processes, societal, economic, political and institutional forces that drive them. Drawing on more than two decades of experience with land use research, the authors have combined methods and approaches from the fields of human geography, cartography, landscape ecology, historical geography and environmental history. The authors understand land use research as a way of analyzing nature-society interactions, their development, spatial aspects, causes and impacts. Czechoslovakia / the Czech Republic serves as an example, combining general processes occurring in landscapes of developed countries with the results of regionally specific driving forces, most of them political (world wars, communism, return to market economy etc.).
The objective of this book is to analyze changes in the landscape of Czechoslovakia / the Czech Republic since the first half of the 19th century. The text focuses not only on describing these considerable changes by means of statistical and spatial data, but also on explaining the processes, societal, economic, political and institutional forces that drive them. Drawing on more than two decades of experience with land use research, the authors have combined methods and approaches from the fields of human geography, cartography, landscape ecology, historical geography and environmental history. The authors understand land use research as a way of analyzing nature-society interactions, their development, spatial aspects, causes and impacts. Czechoslovakia / the Czech Republic serves as an example, combining general processes occurring in landscapes of developed countries with the results of regionally specific driving forces, most of them political (world wars, communism, return to market economy etc.).
Describes processes occurring in Czech landscape since the mid-19th century, ranging from losses of agricultural land and urbanisation, to landscape simplification and regional differentiation of land use structure Combines assessment of statistical and spatial land use data with explanation of societal, economic and political forces driving land use changes Understands land use research as a way to analyse long-term development of nature-society interaction and its causes and impacts in a spatially explicit manner Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
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Ivan Bičík
Themen in »Land Use Changes in the Czech Republic 1845–2010«
Agricultural land and urbanisation Driving Forces Land use in the Czech Republic Landscape of the Czech Republic Long term development of land use landscape/regional and urban planning