By Ivan Bičík, Lucie Kupková, Leoš Jeleček, Jan Kabrda, Přemysl Štych, Zbyněk Janoušek, Jana Winklerová
The goal of this booklet is to investigate adjustments within the panorama of Czechoslovakia / the Czech Republic because the first 1/2 the nineteenth century. The textual content focuses not just on describing those huge alterations by way of statistical and spatial facts, but additionally on explaining the methods, societal, financial, political and institutional forces that force them. Drawing on greater than 20 years of expertise with land use learn, the authors have mixed tools and methods from the fields of human geography, cartography, panorama ecology, ancient geography and environmental background. The authors comprehend land use learn as a manner of reading nature-society interactions, their improvement, spatial facets, factors and affects. Czechoslovakia / the Czech Republic serves for instance, combining normal strategies taking place in landscapes of constructed international locations with the result of domestically particular riding forces, so much of them political (world wars, communism, go back to marketplace economic climate etc.).
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2010, p. ” A very detailed soil mapping (scale 1:5000) was carried out in former Czechoslovakia during 1960s and 1970s. It included soil quality, slope orientation, climatic data and enabled to create the network of so-called soil-ecological units (BPEJ in Czech) (Ju˚va et al. 1975). 3 Selected soil types in Czechia by stable territorial units (STU). Source Kabrda et al. (2006) for agriculture can be attributed to any plot, cadastral unit, or larger area. The network has been updated in 2013; at the moment, there are 2278 soil-ecological units in Czechia.
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