Publication details
Pre-industrial landscapes of Moravia - its identification, mapping and assessment
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| Year of publication | 2019 |
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| Description | The landuse of the Czech lands has undergone profound changes in the period of the industrial society. The decisive reconstruction of the rural landscape was recorded in the years of the socalled real socialism (1950-1989), when the phases of collectivization of agriculture (in 1950s), of transition to the mechanized extensive large-scale agriculture (in 1960s), of the chemization and industrialization of agriculture (in 1970s) of specialized intensive agriculture (in 1980s) took place. These phases led to significant homogenization of the landscape with vast monocultural areas of arable land. The areas that avoided these changes remained aside from the study of the landscape. Areas with an ancient landuse structure, preceded by the middle of the 19th century - the period of the onset of the main wave of the industrial Revolution, thus become a special case of the cultural heritage in the Czech lands. For Moravia - one of the historical Czech lands - a process of the identification and mapping of ancient pre-industrial landscape residues, with the appearance of the structure that was common before 1850, was developed. The procedure consists in application publicly available cartographic materials representing both the current state of the landscape (in the recent orthophotomap) and the situation in the first half of the 19th century (maps of the stable cadastre). The process of searching for the old landscape is based on the identification of an old landscape mosaic in the contemporary landscape represented by the orthophotomap and its confirmation and specification according to the maps of the stable cadastre from the 1820s. Subsequently, the outlines of the detected old landscape segment are saved in the geodatabase and the area of the detected area is calculated. Segments are classified into three size classes. The GIS technology and other public geodata were used to determine the terrain (slope, exposure, altitude, location in the relief), geological and soil conditions of each segment, its location in the administrative and natural units of the Czech Republic. The current state of the unit was specified in the field, and according to it, the pre-industrial landscape segments were classified into three quality classes. The compiled geodatabase is the starting point for a series of spatial analyses. |