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LAND USE CHANGES IN THE CZECH REPUBLIC 1845-201...

The objective of this book is to analyze changes in the landscape of Czechoslovakia   the Czech
Republic since the first half of the 19th century. The text focuses not only on describing
these considerable changes by means of statistical and spatial data  but also on explaining the
processes  societal  economic  political and institutional forces that drive them. Drawing on
more than two decades of experience with land use research  the authors have combined methods
and approaches from the fields of human geography  cartography  landscape ecology  historical
geography and environmental history. The authors understand land use research as a way of
analyzing nature-society interactions  their development  spatial aspects  causes and impacts.
Czechoslovakia   the Czech Republic serves as an example  combining general processes occurring
in landscapes of developed countries with the results of regionally specific driving forces 
most of them political (world wars  communism  return to market economy etc.).

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