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Major Changes in European Landscapes

Explore major transformations in European landscapes - from agricultural intensification to urban sprawl and landscape fragmentation. Understand the connection between intensification and marginalization, and witness the emergence of new, multifunctional landscapes. Discover how natural and cultural discontinuities shape the European environment and how evolving trends impact local ecosystems and biodiversity.

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Major Changes in European Landscapes

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  1. Major Changes in European Landscapes illustration

  2. 1. agricultural intensification • coastal lowlands, river lowlands, wetlands, polders, deltas

  3. A3. polders, Netherlands

  4. 2. agriculturalmarginalization natural factors – soils, climate social factors – transport, distribution result: only hobby farming.....secondary succession, more natural ecosystems re-established Intensification and marginalization are connected

  5. Lost But Not Forgotten

  6. 3. Urban sprawl • Spread of infrastructure consumes considerable space, loss of habitats

  7. American spirit?

  8. 4. Landscape fragmentation • Fragmentation of landscape scenery, historic elements and structures, isolation of ecosystems and animals

  9. New Mexico: Highway

  10. 5. Discontinuity • Natural • Cultural – symbolic

  11. Short story of stations of the cross

  12. Lime tree and other symbols

  13. 6. New landscapes emerging • “new” functions • landscape as a PET – Nature (Příroda), Ecology, Tourism

  14. endogenous natural and human sources are not more important global replacement (lost of biodiversity, sustainability, multifunctionality, regional characteristic patterns of agro/eco/system) segregation of landscape function, only most profitable local products if any alienation from landscape spatial and temporal segregation Unification of landscapes, adaptation for technology not for nature Emerging trends in European landscapes from local to global

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