Land Use, Landscape and Society

Syllabus

Schedule available: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Oc_zPOWRhawuTjzebdaogp98Inm4YIaQBhqKhQ-uTGU/edit?usp=sharing 1) Introduction into the course, objectives and contents of the course, syllabus and timetable, students’ duties   2) Introduction into land use and land cover change research, basic concepts, definitions and  theory of land use research

Ellis, E. (2013). Land-use and land-cover change. Retrieved from http://editors.eol.org/eoearth/wiki/land-use_and_land-cover_changes

BIČÍK, Ivan, KUPKOVÁ, Lucie, JELEČEK, Leoš, KABRDA, Jan, ŠTYCH, Přemysl, JANOUŠEK, Zbyněk, WINKLEROVÁ, Jana. Land Use Changes in the Czech Republic 1845–2010, Socio-Economic Driving Forces, Springer International Publishing, 2015, 215 s., ISBN 978-3-319-17671-0. (https://drive.google.com/open?id=184JwnXgbXgu9Y3g5AL80gmA0uJIiiVui)

Presentation: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1L2LqSB_FuxwTD8qpp2hpH5dPBgsbrH8x/view?usp=sharing   3) European landscape dynamic, LUCC in the Central and Eastern Europe

MUNTEANU, C. et al. (2014): Forest and agricultural land change in the Carpathian region—A meta-analysis of long-term patterns and drivers of change. Land Use Policy 38, pp. 685–697. (https://drive.google.com/open?id=1zupj-n4OqV1FPajwOWT-v7yl7rVtdPL3)

FERANEC, Jan, SOUKUP, Tomáš, TAFF, Gregory, N., ŠTYCH, Přemysl, BIČÍK, Ivan. Overview of Changes in Land Use and Land Cover in Eastern Europe. In: Gutman, G., Radeloff ,V., (eds.). Land-Cover and Land-Use Changes in Eastern Europe after the Collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991. Springer International Publishing, 2017. s. 13-33.  ISBN 978-3-319-42636-5. (https://drive.google.com/open?id=1xP5n6T8ZOhowbec8LkTgsVIY4WbRRBsB)

Landscapes in transition, An account of 25 years of land cover change in Europe, EEA Report No 10/2017, 2017 (https://drive.google.com/open?id=1UdU5_c5gc5OoZJbxsG3zzg7i49p6dJxC

Presentation: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1WvnD7fnOihURQ1hxucpb4vi0J05y0DOP/view?usp=sharing   4) LUCC and “driving forces”, Long-term land use changes in Czechia (1845–2017) – description, explanation, main “driving forces”

BÜRGI, M., HERSPERGER, A.M., SCHNEEBERGER, N. (2004): Driving forces of landscape change - current and new directions. Landscape Ecology 19, 8, pp. 857-868. (https://drive.google.com/open?id=1wLpOTMyarOqIFoTWsEmndIl_fi4SmAy5)

LAMBIN, E.F., GEIST, H. (2007): Causes of land-use and land-cover change. In: Encyclopaedia of Earth, www.eoearth.org,http://www.eoearth.org/article/Causes_of_land-use_and_land-cover_change

BIČÍK, I., JELEČEK, L., ŠTĚPÁNEK, V. (2001): Land-Use Changes and their Social Driving Forces in Czechia in the 19th and 20th Centuries. Land Use Policy 18, 1, pp. 65–73. (https://drive.google.com/open?id=1FgG2HsllYzMvIbwmRVnsBAN1gcj_OI8c) BIČÍK, Ivan, KUPKOVÁ, Lucie, JELEČEK, Leoš, KABRDA, Jan, ŠTYCH, Přemysl, JANOUŠEK, Zbyněk, WINKLEROVÁ, Jana. Land Use Changes in the Czech Republic 1845–2010, Socio-Economic Driving Forces, Springer International Publishing, 2015, 215 s., ISBN 978-3-319-17671-0. (https://drive.google.com/open?id=184JwnXgbXgu9Y3g5AL80gmA0uJIiiVui)

Kupková, L.; Bičík, I.; Jeleček, L. At the Crossroads of European Landscape Changes: Major Processes of Landscape Change in Czechia since the Middle of the 19th Century and Their Driving Forces. Land 2021, 10, 34. https://doi.org/10.3390/land10010034  

Presentations:  https://drive.google.com/file/d/1TVQotjGCiq7QHmUREDs6TB-sfDIHq2P_/view?usp=sharing https://drive.google.com/file/d/15HfNejPBRkpSdD5_e_eBbQeTH_rGcHtv/view?usp=sharing     5) Remote sensing and Forest changes: Time Series methods and analysis using remote sensing data

Lastovicka, J.; Svec, P.; Paluba, D.; Kobliuk, N.; Svoboda, J.; Hladky, R.; Stych, P. Sentinel-2 Data in an Evaluation of the Impact of the Disturbances on Forest Vegetation. Remote Sens. 2020, 12, 1914. https://doi.org/10.3390/rs12121914

Senf, C., Pflugmacher, D., Hostert, P., Seidl, R. Using Landsat time series for characterizing forest disturbance dynamics in the coupled human and natural systems of Central Europe, ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, 2017, Volume 130, pp. 453-463, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.isprsjprs.2017.07.004.  

Presentations:  https://drive.google.com/file/d/1_wYLwQxSJlk3huvYh_jFVf5JpN7JOyCp/view?usp=sharing https://drive.google.com/file/d/1aCASzCGxnJEBM0752RGbkmls0UGwNCz3/view?usp=sharing     6) Landscape transformations in the borderlands of Czechia, historical and cultural geographical approaches to landscape research

Komska, Y. (2004): Border looking: The Cold War visuality of the Sudeten German expellees and its afterlife. German Life and Letters, 57(4): 401–426.

Glassheim, E. (2006): Ethnic cleansing, Communism, and environmental devastation in Czechoslovakia’s Borderlands, 1945–1989. The Journal of Modern History, 78(1): 65–92.

Kučera, Z., Kučerová, S. (2012): Historical geography of persistence, destruction and creation: The case of rural landscape transformations in Czechiaʼs resettled borderland. Historická geografie, 38(1): 165–184.

The articles are available for download here: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/18rn9VfgYAdDDinjOys6tKKtYbf6W5qGm?usp=sharing  

Presentations: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1hCBJJW7lTbk_qC7OZDv1t3B214BqojVw/view?usp=sharing   8) Representation of landscape on old maps; old maps as a source for the study of land use change  

Chodějovská, E. (2012): Studying the early modern landscapes in the Czech Republic. Historical Geography 31 (1), 63-98. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1LauVaS_AKIBtdc2bZ2DL8za8WvGyaMMR/view?usp=sharing

TŮMOVÁ, M. (2018): Maps of estates in Bohemia as an example of an undervalued historical geographic source – research survey and examples of utilization. Acta Universitatis Carolinae Geographica 53, 2. s. 128–141. http://www.aucgeographica.cz/index.php/aucg/article/view/23361980.2018.22/107

Presentations: https://drive.google.com/file/d/17DtPggVwWkStTx7zhOHnbxz5_s0XE4DH/view?usp=sharing        

Annotation

The course deals with historical and current changes of land use, landscape and land cover, with their causes, socio-economic driving forces and consequences, and with their research.

The lectures are focused on: (a) historical and modern theories and approaches to land use research throughout the World; (b) data sources and methods of land use research (LUCC Czechia Database, CORINE database, old maps etc.); (c) description and explanation of main land use changes and their socio-economic driving forces on various spatial levels, with a focus on Czechia; and (d) the relationship between land use changes research and several other phenomena and concepts, including socio-economic metabolism, greenways planning, and modelling and simulation approaches.