Land use of landslides is still a poorly investigated problem. Landslides cannot be regarded as areas unsuitable for use since they occupy a significantly large surface. The ºososina Dolna municipality in the Outer Carpathians is characterized by a very large number of landslides (16% of the total area, about 500 landslides). Land-cover analysis of this agricultural and forest municipality showed a relatively similar structure of land-cover types on areas affected and unaffected by landslides. Six categories of land cover: forest, woodland, agricultural fields, meadows, orchards and built-up areas occupy in total 98% of landslides and 89% of the municipality. On landslides forests had an 11% higher and agricultural fields a 3% lower share in land cover compared to the whole municipality area. The shares of other types of land cover, such as built-up areas, orchards, and shrubs, were very similar, with not more than a 1% difference. This indicates that despite the occurrence of landslides, these areas can still be used for economic purposes, and on sites under extensive management (e.g. meadows and pastures) landslides may cause no land-use changes.

The increase of geomorphological research during the last decades in the Gorce Mts. caused the need for state-of-art review papers. The Gorce Mountains were formed as an isolated massif with Mt Turbacz (1310 m a.s.l.) as the highest summit. River channels are remodeled by sudden and high-level floods with the critical impact of log jams. The main processes influencing hillslope relief were landsliding, run-off, and tree uprooting. The review suggests the following issues await for studies: a long-term landscape evolution, monitoring of morphogenetic processes, and origin of landslides with their contribution to denudation rates. Also, current biomorphodynamics (uprooting process) has not been sufficiently studied.

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