Landscape, Land Use and Modern Society - MZ300E005

• Anglický název: Landscape, Land Use and Modern Society
• Zajišťuje: Sekce geografie (31-301)
• Fakulta: Přírodovědecká fakulta
• Platnost: od 2015 do 2015
• Semestr: letní
• E-Kredity: 10
• Způsob provedení zkoušky: letní s.:
• Rozsah, examinace: letní s.:1/1, Zk [HT]
• Počet míst: neomezen
• Minimální obsazenost: neomezen
• 4EU+: ne
• Virtuální mobilita / počet míst pro virtuální mobilitu: ne
• Stav předmětu: vyučován
• Jazyk výuky: angličtina
• Poznámka: povolen pro zápis po webu
• Garant: Mgr. Jan Kabrda, Ph.D.
• Vyučující: RNDr. Zbyněk Janoušek, Ph.D.; Mgr. Jan Kabrda, Ph.D.; doc. RNDr. Přemysl Štych, Ph.D.; PhDr. Martina Tůmová, Ph.D.

Anotace

Poslední úprava: Mgr. Jan Kabrda, Ph.D. (31.01.2017)

The course deals with historical and current changes of landscape, land use and land cover, with their causes, socio-economic driving forces and consequences, and with their research. The topic is covered in ca 10 lectures.

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 soicio-economic driving forces on various spatial levels, with a focus on the Czech Republic; 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. The course also includes a one-day excursion to a selected Central Bohemian region, where main land use trends in the current Czech landscape are shown and discussed.

At the beginning of the course the students are given ten articles as a compulsory literature to read and then to discuss during the corresponding lectures. Furthermore, each student is asked to write an essay on a selected topic, based primarily on several up-to-date scientific articles. The essays shall be presented and discussed during the two final lectures. Finally, each student has to pass an oral exam at the end of the course that will cover the compulsory literature. The final grade a student obtains reflects both the essay and the oral exam.

Literatura

Poslední úprava: Mgr. Jan Kabrda, Ph.D. (31.01.2017)

Compulsory literature:

 

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.

BÜRGI, M., HERSPERGER, A.M., SCHNEEBERGER, N. (2004): Driving forces of landscape change - current and new directions. Landscape Ecology 19, 8, pp. 857-868.

FERANEC, J., HAZEU, G., CHRISTENSEN, S., JAFFRAIN, G. (2007): Corine land cover change detection in Europe (case studies of the Netherlands and Slovakia). Land Use Policy 24, 1, pp. 234-247.

FUCHS, R. et al. (2015): The potential of old maps and encyclopaedias for reconstructing historic European land cover/use change. Applied Geography 59, pp. 43-55.

KRAUSMANN, F. et al. (2003): Land-use change and socio-economic metabolism in Austria - Part I.: driving forces of land-use change 1950-1995. Land Use Policy 20, 1, pp. 1-20.

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

MAGLIOCCA, N. R. et al. (2015): From meta-studies to modeling: Using synthesis knowledge to build broadly applicable process-based land change models. Environmental Modelling & Software 72, pp. 10-20.

MATHER, A.S. (2002): The reversal of land-use trends: the beginning of the reforestation of Europe. In: Bičík, I. et al. (eds): Land Use/Land Cover Changes in the Period of Globalization. Faculty of Science, Charles University in Prague, pp. 23-30.

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.

RIBEIRO, L., BARAO, T. (2006): Greenways for recreation and maintenance of landscape quality: five case studies in Portugal. Landscape and Urban Planning 76, 1, pp. 79-97.

Požadavky ke zkoušce

Poslední úprava: Mgr. Jan Kabrda, Ph.D. (31.01.2017)

Students’ duties:

Do not miss more than one lecture

Read the compulsory literature in advance, be active during the lectures and participate in the discussions

Write an essay (ca 10 pages long) and present it (ca 15 minutes)

Pass an oral exam covering the compulsory literature

Sylabus

Poslední úprava: Mgr. Jan Kabrda, Ph.D. (31.01.2017)

1. Introduction into the course, objectives and contents of the course, compulsory literature, syllabus and timetable, students’ duties.

2. Introduction into land use and land cover change research; basic concepts and definitions; theory of land use research.

3. Approaches to land use research throughout the World; history and current state of global land use research.

4. GIS and remote sensing methods in land use research, data collection and classifications, spatial data sources of land use research.

5. Quantitative data and methods in land use research; Database of long-term land use changes in the Czech Republic (1845-2010).

6. Representation of landscape on old maps; old maps as a source for the study of land use change.

7. Historic and current land use changes in the Czech Republic - description, explanation, main "driving forces".

8. Socio-economic metabolism and its role in land use changes research.

9. Modelling and simulation approaches in land use changes research.

10. Greenways planning as an example of application of land use research.

11. One-day excursion into a selected model area.

12. Presentations of essays, final discussion, exams.