The Integrated Approach to Landscape Management —Experience from Slovakia

Izakovičová, Zita; Miklós, László; Miklósová, Viktória; Petrovič, František

doi:10.3390/su11174554

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“…Representative geoecosystems in the areas of lowlands and basins were anthropogenically transformed-especially river floodplains, terraces, proluvial cones, plains, loess boards and hills, polygenic hills or fragmented pediments mostly with original oak or oak-cerium forests. Wetlands, stream-side vegetation, orchards, gardens, vineyards as well as public greenery in settlements are often used for construction [48]. Investor pressures on protected areas are also frequent.…”

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“…To evaluate the impact of urbanisation on the landscape and its components, we used geographical synthesis and evaluation [45], where landscape ecological issues arising from conflicts of interest between the development of urbanisation and the protection of nature and natural resources were evaluated [46][47][48]. The syntheses were performed in the GIS environment.…”

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The Impacts of Urbanisation on Landscape and Environment: The Case of Slovakia

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The development of urbanisation is linked to qualitative and quantitative changes in the landscape and its components aimed at strengthening economic, administrative and cultural-social functions, which are associated with ever-increasing pressures on ecosystems and their individual components. These pressures are subject to various factors—socio-economic, political, environ-mental, etc. In this paper, we present an evaluation of the environmental impacts of the development of urbanisation in Slovakia. Independent Slovakia belongs to the young European states. The communist period lasted from 1948 to 1989. The character of landscape, the quality of the environment and also the degree of anthropisation of territory were dependent on a centrally managed economy. Urbanisation changes began to manifest themselves rapidly after 2000, when the economy was transformed and Slovakia was preparing to join the European Union (Slovakia joined the European Union in 2004). The transformation from central planning into a market economy was the basis of the changes, which was conditioned following strong pressure of investors on the landscape, the construction of technological parks, shopping and logistics centres and transport infrastructure and the construction of residential complexes. According to the European Environment Agency’s study on urban sprawl between the mid-1950s and the end of the 1990s, industry, commercial and transport services have grown at a significant rate and the residential areas at a moderate rate in Slovakia. On the other hand, Slovakia has areas where urbanisation has the opposite trend. Rural settlements are abandoned as well as large areas of agricultural land. The character of land use has fundamentally changed over the past 20 years. These changes not only have a spatial dimension but are associated with the emergence of various environmental problems. The paper deals with the impacts of anthropisation and industrialisation of Slovakia after 2000. The anthropisation process in Slovakia was determined through data processed in GIS and also through the statistical data representing land use. Based on the ecological significance of land use elements, the degree of anthropisation in Slovakiawas calculated.

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The Impacts of Urbanisation on Landscape and Environment: The Case of Slovakia

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“…If we want to eliminate and also prevent the occurrence of new environmental and ecological problems in the Danube region, we must respect the following theses (Miklós et al, 2011;Izakovičová et al, 2019;Primmer, Furman, 2012;Bezák, 2006;Dick, 2011;Sielker, 2016):…”

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Integrated Approach to the Management of the Landscape for the Implementation of the Danube Strategy

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The EU Strategy for the Danube Region represents a new form of territorial cooperation. Its ambition is to establish a mechanism of joint responsibility of the countries in the Danube Region for the economic and social development respecting the preservation of natural and cultural heritage. The Strategy is built on four basic pillars: connectivity, building of prosperity, strengthening of the Danube Region and protection of the environment. The Strategy declares the necessity of interdisciplinarity and integrated approach to building a sustainable development of the Region. The scientific base of such an integrated management concerning the landscape and environment is in general the geosystem approach to the landscape, the managerial basement is the harmonisation of the development of the society with the natural, socio-economic and cultural-historical potential of landscape. The integration of both these bases needs a proper system of mutually complementary scientific methods and their implementation to the institutional tools convenient for the Danube Region. The goal of the article is to outline the possibilities for joining/implementation of scientific methods through legally supported tools to integrated landscape management and regional development.

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“…This is the reason why already built water barriers were overwhelmed. In addition to strategic planning documents [56][57][58], integrated landscape management is essential [59][60][61][62][63][64].…”

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Flood Risk Assessment for the Long-Term Strategic Planning Considering the Placement of Industrial Parks in Slovakia

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The intention of the article is to demonstrate how data from historical maps might be applied in the process of flood risk assessment in peri-urban zones located in floodplains and be complementary datasets to the national flood maps. The research took place in two industrial parks near the rivers Žitava and Nitra in the town of Vráble (the oldest industrial park in Slovakia) and the city of Nitra (one of the largest industrial parks in Slovakia, which is still under construction concerning the Jaguar Land Rover facility). The historical maps from the latter half of the 18th and 19th centuries and from the 1950s of the 20th century, as well as the field data on floods gained with the GNSSS receiver in 2010 and the Q100 flood line of the national flood maps (2017), were superposed in geographic information systems. The flood map consists of water flow simulation by a mathematical hydrodynamic model which is valid only for the current watercourse. The comparison of historical datasets with current data indicated various transformations and shifts of the riverbanks over the last 250 years. The results proved that the industrial parks were built up on traditionally and extensively used meadows and pastures through which branched rivers flowed in the past. Recent industrial constructions intensified the use of both territories and led to the modifications of riverbeds and shortening of the watercourse length. Consequently, the river flow energy increased, and floods occurred during torrential events in 2010. If historical maps were respected in the creation of the flood maps, the planned construction of industrial parks in floodplains could be limited or forbidden in the spatial planning documentation. This study confirmed that the flood modelling using the Q100 flood lines does not provide sufficient arguments for investment development groups, and flood maps might be supplied with the data derived from historical maps. The proposed methodology represents a simple, low cost, and effective way of identifying possible flood-prone areas and preventing economic losses and other damages.

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The Integrated Approach to Landscape Management —Experience from Slovakia

Cited by 22 publications

References 34 publications

The Impacts of Urbanisation on Landscape and Environment: The Case of Slovakia

The Impacts of Urbanisation on Landscape and Environment: The Case of Slovakia

Integrated Approach to the Management of the Landscape for the Implementation of the Danube Strategy

Flood Risk Assessment for the Long-Term Strategic Planning Considering the Placement of Industrial Parks in Slovakia

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