By Ivan Bičík, Lucie Kupková, Leoš Jeleček, Jan Kabrda, Přemysl Štych, Zbyněk Janoušek, Jana Winklerová
The target of this e-book is to research adjustments within the panorama of Czechoslovakia / the Czech Republic because the first half the nineteenth century. The textual content focuses not just on describing those substantial alterations via statistical and spatial information, but in addition on explaining the methods, societal, monetary, political and institutional forces that force them. Drawing on greater than twenty years of expertise with land use learn, the authors have mixed tools and techniques from the fields of human geography, cartography, panorama ecology, historic geography and environmental historical past. The authors comprehend land use learn as a fashion of studying nature-society interactions, their improvement, spatial points, motives and affects. Czechoslovakia / the Czech Republic serves for example, combining normal procedures happening in landscapes of built nations with the result of domestically particular riding forces, so much of them political (world wars, communism, go back to marketplace financial system etc.).
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2004, p. 857). e. natural and social driving forces intertwined) means that “…the forces that cause observed landscape changes. e. they are influential processes in the evolutionary trajectory of the landscape” (Bürgi et al. 2004, p. 858). 2 Driving Forces of Land Use Changes 51 Brandt et al. (1999 in Bürgi et al. 2004, p. 859) also suggest that natural driving forces are part of the land use/cover driving forces. These authors recognize five types of driving forces: (1) socio-economic; (2) political (socio-economic and political forces are closely interconnected); (3) technological; (4) natural; (5) cultural.
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Prevailing winds blow from North West and bring enough precipitation (500–750 mm per year in most cases) to balance the evaporation. l. l. (Hrˇensko). Height above sea level influences temperatures and precipitation and consequently also conditions for farming. Terrain and climate have had profound effects on natural land cover; until centuries ago, mixed forest prevailed. D. In that time, exploitation of nature by humans was limited to hunting, fishing, and gathering, plus there were patches of fields created by early farmers.