Driving forces of main landscape change proceses from past 200 years in Central Europe - Differences between old de mocratic and post-socialist countries

Ekologia Bratislava

Volumn 35, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 50-65

  Skokanová, Hana ^a   Faltan, Vladimír ^b   Havlicek, Marek ^a  

^a SILVA TAROUCA RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR LANDSCAPE AND ORNAMENTAL GARDENING   (Czech Republic)

^b Faculty of Natural Sciences   (Slovakia)

Author keywords

Central Europe; Driving forces; Landscape change processes; Old democratic countries; Post socialist countries

Indexed keywords

ABANDONED LAND; AGRICULTURAL INTENSIFICATION; AGRICULTURAL LAND; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; LANDSCAPE CHANGE; NATURE-SOCIETY RELATIONS; NINETEENTH CENTURY; TWENTIETH CENTURY; TWENTY FIRST CENTURY; URBANIZATION;

CENTRAL EUROPE;

EID: 84962333169     PISSN: 1335342X     EISSN: 1337947X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/eko-2016-0004     Document Type: Article

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