Spatial determinants of abandonment of large-scale arable lands and managed grasslands in Slovakia during the periods of post-socialist transition and European …

R Pazúr, J Lieskovský, J Feranec, J Oťaheľ - Applied Geography, 2014 - Elsevier
Agricultural land abandonment represents one of the most significant processes affecting
today's European landscapes. This process occurs more intensively in the post-socialist …

Exploring biodiversity patterns at the landscape scale by linking landscape energy and land use/land cover heterogeneity

A Darvishi, M Yousefi, M Schirrmann, F Ewert - Science of The Total …, 2024 - Elsevier
Agricultural Biodiversity dynamics has been evaluated by social metabolism or by
landscape structure-function analysis. In this study, by using ELIA modeling, we used both …

Determining and quantifying the historical traces of spatial land arrangements in rural landscapes of Central and Eastern Europe

B Prus, M Dudzińska, S Bacior - Scientific reports, 2021 - nature.com
The article attempts to define and determine the intangible components of cultural heritage
related to the spatial structure of land in a comprehensive way using computational …

Progress and prospects in tourism research on agricultural heritage sites

T Mi, M Qingwen, T Hui, Y Zheng, H Lu, L Fei - Journal of Resources and …, 2014 - BioOne
Agricultural heritage is an important type of world heritage. The special features of this kind
of heritage are that they are “living” or “real life” systems, in both the ecosystem and in the …

Analysis of changes in land use patterns pursuant to the conversion of agricultural land to non-agricultural use in the context of the sustainable development of the …

M Busko, B Szafranska - Sustainability, 2018 - mdpi.com
This research paper presents the results of analyses that address the direction in which the
issue of land use in Malopolska has been heading in recent years. The authors formulated …

Modelling of climate conditions in forest vegetation zones as a support tool for forest management strategy in European beech dominated forests

I Machar, V Vlckova, A Bucek, V Vozenilek, L Salek… - Forests, 2017 - mdpi.com
The regional effects of climate change on forest ecosystems in the temperate climate zone of
Europe can be modelled as shifts of forest vegetation zones in the landscape, northward …

Rural identity and landscape aesthetics in exurbia: Some issues to resolve from a Central European perspective

KJ Molnárová, Z Skřivanová, O Kalivoda… - Moravian Geographical …, 2017 - sciendo.com
Although perceptions of landscape aesthetics are currently attracting great research interest,
some aspects of the topic have remained almost unexamined. This review highlights some …

Geographical conceptualization of quality of life

F Murgaš - Ekológia (bratislava), 2016 - sciendo.com
The conceptualization of quality of life in terms of geography is based on two assumptions.
The first assumption is that the quality of life consists of two dimensions: subjective and …

Role of rural identity in traditional agricultural landscape maintenance: The story of a post-communist country

P Bezák, M Dobrovodská - Agroecology and Sustainable Food …, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
The traditional agricultural landscape (TAL) in Slovakia comprises mosaics of small-scale
arable fields and permanent agricultural cultivations with balks (mounds, heaps, or terraces) …

Persistence in cultural landscapes: A pan-European analysis

J Lieskovský, M Bürgi - Regional Environmental Change, 2018 - Springer
Persistence in landscapes is determined by land cover types that remain unchanged over a
certain period of time. Mapping and analyzing landscape persistence brings a new view to …