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- 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
Part of the book series: Springer Geography (SPRINGERGEOGR)
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Table of contents (8 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
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.).
Authors and Affiliations
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Department of Social Geography and Regional Development, Charles University in Prague, Prague 2, Czech Republic
Ivan Bičík
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Department of Applied Geoinformatics and, Charles University Faculty of Science, Prague 2, Czech Republic
Lucie Kupková
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Department of Social Geography and Regio, Charles University of Prague, Prague 2, Czech Republic
Leoš Jeleček, Jan Kabrda, Přemysl Štych
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Department of Social Geography and Regio, Charles University in Prague, Prague 2, Czech Republic
Zbyněk Janoušek
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Department of Social Geography and Regio, Charles University in Prague, Praha 2, Czech Republic
Jana Winklerová
About the authors
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Land Use Changes in the Czech Republic 1845–2010
Book Subtitle: Socio-Economic Driving Forces
Authors: Ivan Bičík, Lucie Kupková, Leoš Jeleček, Jan Kabrda, Přemysl Štych, Zbyněk Janoušek, Jana Winklerová
Series Title: Springer Geography
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-17671-0
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2015
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-17670-3Published: 13 August 2015
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-35318-0Published: 22 October 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-17671-0Published: 01 August 2015
Series ISSN: 2194-315X
Series E-ISSN: 2194-3168
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VII, 215
Number of Illustrations: 7 b/w illustrations, 95 illustrations in colour
Topics: Landscape/Regional and Urban Planning, Economic Geography, Cities, Countries, Regions