CHILDA – Czech Historical Landslide Database

Abstract. National and regional historical landslide databases are increasingly viewed as providing empirical evidence for the geomorphic effects of ongoing environmental change and for supporting adaptive territorial planning. In this work, we present the design and current content of the Czech Historical Landslide Database (CHILDA), the first of its kind for the territory of Czechia (the Czech Republic). We outline the CHILDA system, its functionality, and technical solution. The database was established by merging and extending the fragmented regional datasets for highly landslide-prone areas in Czechia. Currently, the database includes 699 records (619 landslides, 75 rockfalls, and 5 other movement types) encompassing the period from the oldest determined records (1132) up to 1989, which represents an important cultural, political, and socioeconomic divide.

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CHILDA − Czech Historical Landslide Database

10.5194/nhess-2021-112 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Michal Bíl ◽

Pavel Raška ◽

Lukáš Dolák ◽

Jan Kubeček

Keyword(s):

Czech Republic ◽

Environmental Change ◽

Empirical Evidence ◽

Technical Solution ◽

The Czech Republic ◽

Landslide Database ◽

Territorial Planning ◽

Current Content

Abstract. National and regional historical landslide databases are increasingly viewed as providing empirical evidence for the geomorphic effects of ongoing environmental change and for supporting adaptive territorial planning. In this work, we present the design and current content of the Czech Historical Landslide Database (CHILDA), the first of its kind for the territory of Czechia (the Czech Republic). We outline the CHILDA system, its functionality and technical solution. The database was established by merging and extending the fragmented regional datasets for highly landslide prone areas in Czechia. Currently, the database includes 699 records (619 landslides, 75 rockfalls, and 5 other movement types) encompassing the period from the oldest determined records (1132) up to 1989 which represents an important cultural, political and socioeconomic divide. Along with characterizing the content of the database, we discuss its further developments and applications.

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Collective Memory and Social Movements: Football Sites of Memory in Supporters’ Activism

Sociology of Sport Journal ◽

10.1123/ssj.2020-0200 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 1-9

Author(s):

Dino Numerato ◽

Arnošt Svoboda

Keyword(s):

Social Movements ◽

Czech Republic ◽

Collective Memory ◽

Empirical Evidence ◽

Contentious Politics ◽

Ethnographic Study ◽

European Level ◽

Significant Component ◽

The Czech Republic

This paper examines the role of collective memory in the protection of “traditional” sociocultural and symbolic aspects of football vis-à-vis the processes of commodification and globalization. Empirical evidence that underpins the analysis is drawn from a multisite ethnographic study of football fan activism in the Czech Republic, Italy, and England, as well as at the European level. The authors argue that collective memory represents a significant component of the supporters’ mobilization and is related to the protection of specific football sites of memory, including club names, logos, colors, places, heroes, tragedies, and histories. The authors further explain that collective memory operates through three interconnected dimensions: embedded collective memory, transcendent collective memory, and the collective memory of contentious politics.

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Proposed Methodology for the Calculation of Overview Distances at Level Crossings and the Inclusion Thereof in National Standards

Sustainability ◽

10.3390/su12145684 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 12 (14) ◽

pp. 5684

Author(s):

Vladimír Ľupták ◽

Maria Stopkova ◽

Martin Jurkovič

Keyword(s):

Czech Republic ◽

Rational Solution ◽

Geographical Location ◽

National Standards ◽

Technical Solution ◽

Comprehensive Overview ◽

Level Crossings ◽

The Czech Republic ◽

Current State ◽

State Of Affairs

The aim of this article is to find a rational solution for increasing the safety of level crossings in the Czech Republic on the basis of a set of representative level crossings. The Czech Republic was deliberately chosen because of its geographical location, the number of level crossings on the network, and because, according to statistics from the Rail Safety Inspection Office, the country ranks as one of the highest for the number of accidents at level crossings. The rational solution being sought is one that achieves a balance between legislative, technical, and awareness-raising measures. In the practical part, great emphasis is placed on the assessment of the current state of Czech legislation. The identified discrepancies are resolved by adjusting calculations for overview distances and proposing changes to incorrect provisions. The main contribution of this paper is the comprehensive overview that it provides of level crossings and their safety. This overview includes a description of the current state of affairs, i.e., the number of level crossings, their location, classification, construction and type of equipment used, as well as an analysis of accidents and their frequency. The latter is in relation to the proposed construction and technical solution and subsequent assessment of the rationalisation possibilities and investments required to reconstruct or remove existing level crossings, thereby affecting the accident rate.

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