<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p> Buildings and facilities on waterways have significant landscaping, water management and ecological importance. They affect the landscape and create conditions for the emergence of new habitats. Small dams, mills, saws, small hydropower plants, dams and other water objects and structures, which more or less affect the flow of the surrounding countryside, are built and are building in the countryside. Within design and construction of these objects environmental relationships must be respected and in line with the sustainable exploitation of the territory. Many objects built in the past adversely affected the flow and the landscape while make it impossible the migration of fish and amphibians. A series of objects is currently non-functional and have a negative impact on the flow and the surrounding countryside. In such cases the streams are revitalized or inoperative objects are removed, fish ladders are often built. This study evaluates the possibility of using land adjacent to the fixed weir on the Svratka river in the Ujčov village, from the viewpoint of maintaining the existing biodiversity, aesthetic and economic potential of the territory. A study with several options of land use is the result.</p></abstract>

Buildings and facilities on waterways have significant landscaping, water management and ecological importance. They affect the landscape and create conditions for the emergence of new habitats. Small dams, mills, saws, small hydropower plants, dams and other water objects and structures, which more or less affect the flow of the surrounding countryside, are built and are building in the countryside. Within design and construction of these objects environmental relationships must be respected and in line with the sustainable exploitation of the territory. Many objects built in the past adversely affected the flow and the landscape while make it impossible the migration of fish and amphibians. A series of objects is currently non-functional and have a negative impact on the flow and the surrounding countryside. In such cases the streams are revitalized or inoperative objects are removed, fish ladders are often built. This study evaluates the possibility of using land adjacent to the fixed weir on the Svratka river in the Ujčov village, from the viewpoint of maintaining the existing biodiversity, aesthetic and economic potential of the territory. A study with several options of land use is the result.

Water constructions in countryside – case study of land use on the river Svratka in the village Ujčov (Moravia)

Ph.D., Department of Applied and Landscape Ecology, Faculty of AgriSciences, Mendel University in Brno, Zemědělská 1, 61300 Brno,

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Buildings and facilities on waterways have significant landscaping, water management and ecological importance. They affect the landscape and create conditions...

Water constructions in countryside – case study of land use on the river Svratka in the village Ujčov (Moravia)

Article Category: Short communications

Published Online: Apr 06, 2017

Page range: 194 - 210

Received: Jun 07, 2016

Accepted: Dec 22, 2016

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/euco-2017-0012

Keywords
weir, small hydropower plants, Vír dam, fish ladder, the Czech Republic

© by Petra Oppeltová

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License.

Water constructions in countryside – case study of land use on the river Svratka in the village Ujčov (Moravia)

Article Category: Short communications

Published Online: Apr 06, 2017

Page range: 194 - 210

Received: Jun 07, 2016

Accepted: Dec 22, 2016

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/euco-2017-0012

Keywordsweir, small hydropower plants, Vír dam, fish ladder, the Czech Republic

© by Petra Oppeltová

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License.

Keywords
weir, small hydropower plants, Vír dam, fish ladder, the Czech Republic