Publication details
The spatial analysis of the pre-industrial landscapes in Moravia (Czech Republic)
| Title in English | The spatial analysis of the pre-industrial landscapes in Moravia (Czech Republic)Předindustriální |
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| Year of publication | 2019 |
| Type | Conference abstract |
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| Description | The collectivization of agriculture and the nationalization of forests in the period of real socialism led to the merging of land of small owners into large homogeneous areas, which completely overlaid the centuries-old varied mosaic of fields, meadows and forests. The land privatization after economic and political changes in the former Czechoslovakia after 1990 strengthened the trend of land consolidation. Small parcels of agricultural cultures are rare in the present landscape and become the subject of interests of the state protection of nature, landscape and the environment. At the same time, such areas are interesting for the local administration as an attractive tourist object that can attract visitors to the sites. In the historical territory of Moravia (eastern 1/3 of the territory of the Czech Republic), an inventory of areas with preserved ancient structure of land use (not only small parcels, but also aristocratic estates on agricultural and forest land) from the period before the main wave of industrial revolution in Moravia 1850 was realized. Each site was assessed from 10 points of view. All localities were inserted into the GIS geodatabase and their multivariate analysis was performed to estimate the regularities of their spatial occurrence patterns. The geodatabase itself is also a testimony to their current state and level of threat. The sites are still subject to economic pressure on land consolidation and large-scale land use. Their existence in the future is under threat and their number is decreasing every year. |