The aim of this study is to bring a unique overview of past, current and plausible future land
use development in Slovakia. The study assessed land change processes and their spatial …

The paper analyses the period from 1782 to 2006 divided according to the existing political
systems in three rural study sites of Slovakia. Two long, monarchy (I. LMP) and revolutionary …

Many countries in Central and Eastern Europe have been undergoing marked economic
changes following the collapse of the former" Eastern Bloc" and totalitarian regimes. In the …

The major topic of this article is the evaluation of the regional differentiation of the long-term
changes in land use in Czechia. This study searches the spatial and temporal differentiation …

In Switzerland, the decreasing significance of agriculture has led to prominent processes of
land abandonment in mountainous areas where the maintenance of open land relies on …

Changes in the cultural landscape provide essential evidence about the manner and
intensity of the interactions between humans and nature. Czechia has a specific location in …

The article compares and points out differences in driving forces of four main landscape
change processes that shaped post-socialist countries and old democratic countries of …

ABSTRACT Central and Eastern Europe is experiencing significant land degradation, at the
same time as social, economic and political transformation, and within the broader context of …

Research in long-term land-use changes in Czechia (Czechia is an official geographic
name of the Czech Republic) in the period 1845-2000 led us, aside from assessment of …

The transformations in Slovak agriculture from the 1950s to the present day, considering
both the generic (National and EU) and site-specific (local) drivers of landscape change …