Heritage, change and consequences for recreation: Landscape development in Czechia during the last 200 years
Abstrakt
We investigated selected study areas regarding natural and cultural development and changes in the last circa 200 years with the goal to reveal their heritage and values from point of view of many geographical disciplines. Using various types of data and methods of physical, social geography and geoinformatics we have analysed thirty study areas so far, especially landscapes, which went through massive changes such as vanishing of inhabitants and settlements and extensification or afforestation, urbanization and construction new water bodies.
Here, we expertly chose areas with recreational use and investigated their land cover changes between the 19th century and nowadays to find out whether and how land cover and recreation use are related. In addition, we would like to present wide range of outputs of our project and connections between heritage and its representation of the landscape, land cover change and recreation in the study areas.
We concluded that landscape changes are hand in hand with current recreational use. There is a shift from productive to non-productive functions, however ways differed significantly, e.g. using old structures for new activities, activities based on new or transformed structures and landscape or even covering old structures by recreation.