CHANGES IN THE AGRICULTURAL LANDSCAPE OF SLOVAKIA AND THEIR IMPACTS
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https://doi.org/10.18623/rvd.v23.5171Keywords:
Slovakia, Integrated Landscape Management, Agricultural Landscape, Environmental and Socio-Economic Problems, Sustainable Development, Regulatives, Landscape as GeosystemAbstract
The paper is aimed at the presentation of the evaluation of the changes slovak agricultural landscape in the process of transformation. It focuses on the assessment of the main driving forces of changes as well as on the assessment of the environmental impacts of these changes. It presents integrated approach to the evaluation of agricultural landscape. The integrated approach is based on the understanding landscape as geosystem. The basic goal of the evaluation was specification of the present problems of the agricultural landscape associated with the transformation process and proposal for their elimination.
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