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The paper is focused on a long-term development of the selected Slovak cultural landscape types (plains, basins, uplands, highlands, and mountains) in approx. 200 years, which shaped the main land use features as well as on the recent transformation trends. The land use development analyses showed that from a long term view perspective several distinct periods can be distinguished. Each of these periods was characteristic for certain land use changes depending both on the landscape character or the socioeconomic situation. The recent trends as land use intensification (intense agriculture, sub-urbanisation, industrial construction) or land use extensification (agricultural land overgrowing) are considered to be common for the entire Slovak territory. Special transformation trends reflect more local conditions, human needs and preferences (construction of water reservoirs, wind calamities or tourism resorts) and though they are spatially isolated and small they influence the majority of Slovak inhabitants.

Transformation of the Slovak Cultural Landscape Since the 18 Cent. and its Recent Trends

Department of Applied Ecology, Faculty of Ecology and Environmental Sciences, Technical University in Zvolen, Masaryka 24, 960 53 Zvolen

Department of Geography and Regional Development, Faculty of Natural Sciences, Constantine the Philosopher's University in Nitra, A. Hlinku 1, 949 74, Nitra

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<article-title>Transformation of the Slovak Cultural Landscape Since the 18th Cent. and its Recent Trends</article-title>

Accessibility is an important aspect in the evaluation of suitability of an area in the context of natural resource management or landscape ecology. In many geographic information software packages a distance function is included, but the creation of adequate accessibility models requires more than simple distance calculation and in practice is not that easy. A theoretical test area is used to demonstrate how different terrain variables will influence the results of the application of the distance function. With the understanding obtained that way, the approach is applied in a real case study area to illustrate its possibilities but also some difficulties and limitations that are still encountered.

Essibility Models for Natural Resource Management

International Institute for Aerospace Survey and Earth Sciences (ITC), P.O.Box 6, 7500 AA Enschede, the Netherlands

Department of Geographic Information Science and Technology, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Honduras

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<italic>Quercus polycarpa</italic> Schur is a little known oak species of the Sessile Oak aggregate (<italic>Quercus petraea</italic> s. lat.). Different habitats were studied using geobiocoenological typology system in order to investigate its ecology. In total, 65 experimental plots were set in forest stands with <italic>Q. polycarpa</italic> in the main storey in 12 protected areas situated in south-east of the Czech Republic. Ecological conditions, basic tree parameters and representation of <italic>Q. polycarpa</italic> within other oak species were evaluated on each plot. The mean values of height, height of life crown setting, stem and crown diameter were related to sub-categories of geobiocoenological system and compared by one-way ANOVA and Scheffé post-hoc test. It has been found out that <italic>Q. polycarpa</italic> grow in a high number in the 2nd altitudinal zone. It often occurs in a variety of habitats with different hydric and trophic conditions. As expected, the lowest values of measured parameters were found in the dry hydric range, this species reaches the highest values in the normal hydric and mesic ranges.

Analysis of Ecology of a Little Known White Oak  Schur, Using Geobiocoenological Typology

Faculty of Forestry and Wood Technology, Department of Forest Botany, Dendrology and Geobiocoenology, Mendel University in Brno, Zemědělská 3,616 00 Brno, Czech Republic

<article-title>Analysis of Ecology of a Little Known White Oak <italic>Quercus Polycarpa</italic> Schur, Using Geobiocoenological Typology</article-title>

The article deals with analysis and management of wood debris accumulation in the Morava River within the Special Area of Conservation Litovelske Pomoravi (Czech Republic). Wood debris creates interference of interests between nature conservation (requirements for keeping wood debris in the stream) and foresters as well as water managers (requirements for removing wood debris from the flow area of the river). Based on the presented analyses, there was a set of wood debris management measures proposed in Litovelske Pomoravi in order to respect dynamics of fluvial succession series of floodplain forest biotopes, which are included in the Natura 2000 system.

Wood Debris in Rivers - One of the Key Factors for Management of the Floodplain Forest Biotope of European Importance

ŠINDLAR EU, s.r.o., Býšť, Czech Republic

Department of Biology, Faculty of Education, Palacky University Olomouc, Czech Republic

<article-title>Wood Debris in Rivers - One of the Key Factors for Management of the Floodplain Forest Biotope of European Importance</article-title>

Have we still got time for sustainability and reasonable application of ideas of sustainable development? It has been just over twenty years since the Brundtland Commission Report but, taken as an axiological term; sustainable development resonates with older historical horizons. At the heart of a long running history we are beginning to articulate more or less sustaining relationships between man and nature. We have described the (human) needs in the environmental, economic and social dimension of sustainable development to show some amazing shift in perception of sustainable development from local to global level. We are convinced that historical lesson of sustainable development shows there is no more time for sustainability, but time for SOStainability. Our proposed S-O-S in SOStainability means Save Our Sustainability! SOStainability represents the need to end the compromise between economic development and natural life supporting systems.

Any Lesson from the History of Sustainable Development?

Faculty of Philosophy and Art, Charles University Prague, Celetná 20, Praha 1, 110 00

Faculty of Economy, South Bohemia University, Ceske Budejovice, Czech Republic

<article-title>Any Lesson from the History of Sustainable Development?</article-title>

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Editor-in-Chief: Petr Maděra, Mendel University in Brno, Czech Republic Deputy editor: Zdeněk Lipský, Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic Executive Editors: Markéta Šantrůčková, The Silva Tarouca Research Institute for Landscape and Ornamental Gardening, Průhonice, Czech Republic Ivo Machar, Palacky University in Olomouc, Czech Republic Editors: Pavel Kovář, Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic Almo Farina, University of Urbino, Italy Irina Goia, Babes-Bolyai University Cluj-Napoca, Romania Rob H.G. Jongman, Wageningen, Netherlands Marc J. Metzger, University in Edinburgh, UK Dušan Romportl, Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic Alena Salašová, Mendel University in Brno, Czech Republic Jerzy Solon, Polish Academy of Science, Poland Richard Stiles, TU Vienna, Austria Jaroslav Vojta, Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic Thomas Wrbka, University of Vienna, Austria Agnieszka Latocha, University of Wrocław, Poland Robert Gerald Henry Bunce, Estonian University of Life Sciences, Tartu, Estonia Technical Editors: Jaromíra Dreslerová, Mendel University in Brno, Czech Republic Contact Petr Maděra Department of Forest Botany, Dendrology and Geobiocoenology Faculty of Forestry and Wood Technology Mendelu University in Brno Zemědělská 3, Brno 613 00 Czech Republic E-mail: <A href="mailto:petrmad@mendelu.cz">petrmad@mendelu.cz</A> Publisher De Gruyter Poland Bogumiła Zuga 32A Str. 01-811 Warsaw, Poland T: +48 22 701 50 15

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