Non-market non-timber forest products in the Czech Republic—Their socio-economic effects and trends in forest land use

2016 ◽  
Vol 50 ◽  
pp. 390-398 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ludek Sisak ◽  
Marcel Riedl ◽  
Roman Dudik
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Czech Republic ◽  
Forest Products ◽  
Economic Effects ◽  
Forest Land ◽  
The Czech Republic ◽  
Non Timber Forest Products

scholarly journals Assessing Habitat Vulnerability and Loss of Naturalness: Applying the GLOBIO3 Model in the Czech Republic

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (10) ◽  
pp. 5355
Author(s):  
Vilém Pechanec ◽  
Ondřej Cudlín ◽  
Miloš Zapletal ◽  
Jan Purkyt ◽  
Lenka Štěrbová ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Czech Republic ◽  
Habitat Quality ◽  
Species Abundance ◽  
Biodiversity Loss ◽  
Infrastructure Development ◽  
Natural Habitats ◽  
The Czech Republic ◽  
New Equation ◽  
The Impact

Global and regional biodiversity loss is caused by several drivers including urban development, land use intensification, overexploitation of natural resources, environmental pollution, and climate change. The main aim of our study was to adapt the GLOBIO3 model to the conditions of the Czech Republic (CR) to assess loss of naturalness and biodiversity vulnerability at the habitat level on a detailed scale across the entire CR. An additional aim was to assess the main drivers affecting the biodiversity of habitat types. The GLOBIO3 model was adapted to CZ-GLOBIO by adapting global to local scales and using habitat quality and naturalness data instead of species occurrence data. The total mean species abundance (MSA) index of habitat quality, calculated from the spatial overlay of the four MSA indicators by our new equation, reached the value 0.62. The total value of MSA for natural and near-natural habitats was found to be affected mainly by infrastructure development and fragmentation. Simultaneously, intensity of land use change and atmospheric nitrogen deposition contributed primarily to the low total value of MSA for distant natural habitats. The CZ-GLOBIO model can be an important tool in political decision making to reduce the impact of the main drivers on habitat biodiversity in the CR.

Pre-industrial landscape of the Jeseníky region as a natural and cultural heritage

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jaromír Kolejka ◽  
Eva Nováková
Keyword(s):  
Czech Republic ◽  
Industrial Revolution ◽  
Agricultural Land ◽  
Local Administration ◽  
Economic Pressure ◽  
Forest Land ◽  
The Czech Republic ◽  
Industrial Landscape ◽  
The Subject ◽  
State Protection

Small parcels of agricultural land are rare in the present landscape of Czech Republic and become the subject of interests of the state protection of the nature, the landscape and the environment. At the same time, such areas represent interesting subjects for the local administration as attractive tourist object. In the historical territory of Moravia (the eastern 1/3 of the Czech Republic), a regional inventory of areas with preserved ancient land use structure was carried out on all individual cadastral territories (focused not only on small parcels, but also on large aristocratic estates on agricultural and forest land originated before the main wave of industrial revolution Moravia, before 1850. The sites are still subjects to topic economic pressure on land consolidation. Their existence in the future is under threat and is decreasing every year both in number and size. The inventory results are presented on example of the Jeseníky region.

scholarly journals The Conflicts of Ultilization of Forest Area in Bukit Basa Limited Production Forest, Rejang Lebong District, Bengkulu Province

2019 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 61
Author(s):  
Gunggung Senoaji
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Agricultural Land ◽  
Sampling Technique ◽  
Forest Products ◽  
Forest Area ◽  
Main Function ◽  
Forest Land ◽  
Community Forests ◽  
Crop Land ◽  
Agricultural Business

Bukit Basa Limited Production Forest covers 125 hectares, located in Rejang Lebong District, Bengkulu Province, Indonesia.  The main function of limited production forest is to yield forest products, timber and non timber.  In Bukit Basa Limited Production Forest, there has been a change of land use from forest land to a crop land.  There has been conflict in this forest area. The objective of this study was to describe the characteristics of communities cutivating forest land and to suggest conflict resolution of this forest area. The data were collected by field observation, and interview.  The accidental sampling technique was used to select 42 respondents. Legal approaches were  used to find solutions to the tenurial conflict. The results showed that land use of Bukit Basa Limited Production Forest, in 2017 was entirely crop land. All of this forest areas have been illegaly occupied by people.  The average land area of occupied by a household was 1.24 ha. The people acquired their land by buying (4.76%), renting (21.43%), clearing the forest (42.86%), and inheriting (30.95%). The dependence of this community on the forest area was quite high. Only 38.10% of them had agricultural land outside the forest area; 61.9% depended on the land in the forest area. The contribution of farmers' incomes from agricultural business in forest land was 77.22% of their total income. The legalization of the use of limited production forests as crop lands must be enforced through policy schemes of community-based forest management, such as community forests, village forests, community plantations forest, or partnerships.

scholarly journals Hunting territories and land use overlap in sedentarised Baka Pygmy communities in southeastern Cameroon

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Julia E. Fa ◽  
Guillermo Ros Brull ◽  
Eva Ávila Martin ◽  
Robert Okale ◽  
François Fouda ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Forest Products ◽  
Land Use Policy ◽  
Home Ranges ◽  
Land Uses ◽  
Forest Land ◽  
The Past ◽  
Wild Meat ◽  
Policy And Planning ◽  
Utilization Distributions

AbstractA significant number of Baka Pygmies in Cameroon have been sedentarised in roadside villages, in contrast to their nomadic hunter-gatherer existence of the past. Although this change in lifestyle has had important consequences on health, most Baka villages still supplement their diets from forest products, especially wild meat. We used a combination of participatory methods and monitoring of individual hunters to map hunting territories in 10 Baka villages in southeastern Cameroon. From these, we determined whether wild meat extraction levels per village were related to the size of hunting territories, measured habitat use by hunters and finally defined the overlap between hunting territories and extractive industries in the region. Mapped village hunting areas averaged 205.2 ± 108.7 km2 (range 76.8–352.0 km2); all villages used a total of 2052 km2. From 295 tracks of 51 hunters, we showed that hunters travelled an average of 16.5 ± 13.5 km (range 0.9–89.8 km) from each village. Home ranges, derived from kernel utilization distributions, were correlated with village offtake levels, but hunter offtake and distance travelled were not significantly related, suggesting that enough prey was available even close to the villages. Hunters in all village areas exhibited a clear bias towards certain habitats, as indicated by positive Ivlev’s index of selectivity values. We also showed that all village hunting territories and hunter home ranges fall within mining and logging concessions. Our results are important for local understanding of forest land uses and to reconcile these with the other land uses in the region to better inform decisions concerning land use policy and planning.

scholarly journals Geoecological aspects of flood damages mitigation

Geografie ◽  
2003 ◽  
Vol 108 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-13
Author(s):  
Jaromír Kolejka
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Czech Republic ◽  
Flood Control ◽  
Flood Plain ◽  
The Czech Republic ◽  
Catchment Areas ◽  
Flood Damages ◽  
Technical Measures

The flood damages caused recently in the Czech Republic require additional measures both on rivers and in catchment areas. Cities and towns are especially interested in the protection because of their high vulnerability. Ecological (land use) and technical (reservoirs) measures are being planned in catchments to keep water in the landscape safe. The flood plain segmentation into sectors with different protective values and move of technical measures from rivers close to valuable objects and areas represent the vision of flood control downstream the rivers.

scholarly journals Ocena sytuacji towarowych gospodarstw rolnych państw UE z wykorzystaniem metod porządkowania liniowego

2018 ◽  
Vol 18(33) (1) ◽  
pp. 66-79
Author(s):  
Joanna Kisielińska
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Czech Republic ◽  
The Netherlands ◽  
European Countries ◽  
Linear Ordering ◽  
Southern Europe ◽  
Selection Methods ◽  
The Czech Republic ◽  
Communist Countries ◽  
Potential Land

The aim of the research presented in the article was assessment of the commodity situation of farms in EU countries, which was determined by potential, land use and labor. The goal was achieved using linear ordering methods. An additional, methodical aim, was comparison of different weight selection methods in the aggregation formula. It turned out that the best is the condition of farms in The Netherlands and in highly developed Western European countries. Among post-communist countries, the condition of farms in the Czech Republic and Slovakia is good. In a weak situation, there are commodity farms from Southern Europe and other post-communist countries. Poland ranked 23rd.

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