Analysis of land consolidation projects and their impact on land use change, landscape structure, and agricultural land resource protection: case studies of Pilsen-South and Pilsen-North (Czech Republic)

0464862 - ÚVGZ 2017 RIV JP eng J - Journal Article
Moravcová, J. - Koupilová, M. - Pavlíček, T. - Zemek, František - Kvítek, T. - Pečenka, J.
Analysis of land consolidation projects and their impact on land use change, landscape structure, and agricultural land resource protection: case studies of Pilsen-South and Pilsen-North (Czech Republic).
Landscape and Ecological Engineering. Roč. 13, č. 1 (2017), s. 1-13. ISSN 1860-1871. E-ISSN 1860-188X
R&D Projects: GA MŠMT(CZ) ED1.1.00/02.0073
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Keywords : land consolidation * land use change * landscape structure * soil protection * grassing
OECD category: Environmental sciences (social aspects to be 5.7)
Impact factor: 0.815, year: 2017

Within the countries of the former socialist bloc, the changes in the politico-economic system at the end of the 1990s created a situation where it was (and still is) necessary to restore agricultural land resource property rights, to adjust the structure of agricultural land to current needs and to improve the current state of environmental resources. This case study covers 19 cadastral areas in the western part of the Czech Republic that were affected by the land consolidation process during 2000–2006. The main task of this study was to document how land consolidation processes could affect the change of land use and landscape structure and whether the land consolidation planners take into account the protection of natural resources. The increased acreage of grasslands was the most important change which has occurred in the land use in the 19 analysed cadastral areas, before and after land consolidations. In the studied area, the changes of land use involved 6.8 % of the total land consolidation area. This area of grassland significantly increased the protection of agricultural land from water erosion. In terms of changes in the landscape structure, the construction of new field road networks is the most important result. The results confirm the importance of land consolidation processes not only for the organization and recovery of ownership and cadastral records but also for the improvement of agricultural use of landscape and protection of natural resources such as soil, water and plant and animal communities.
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