Landscape as a Geosystem

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The book analyses the landscape as a geosystem in all its complexity (from the abiotic environment, and land use to socio-economic character) as an integrated natural resource, as society’s life space, as well as an object of planning and decision making on sustainable land use. It presents the landscape properties in the form of databases that comply with the INSPIRE Directive 2007/2/EC (INSPIRE – Infrastructure for Spatial InfoRmation in Europe) requirements, which can be used for a variety of purposes and can serve as a national spatial information database for the needs of applied landscape-ecological research and real-world spatial planning processes. The book also provides overview legends with complete domain values of selected attributes of all three landscape structures (primary, secondary and tertiary) routinely used in Slovakia. Lastly, the book offers an example of the construction and mapping of geocomplexes as well as the database creation on the model territory at the regional level. Front Matter ....Pages i-xxiii The Material Base of Sustainable Development—The Landscape (László Miklós, Erika Kočická, Zita Izakovičová, Dušan Kočický, Anna Špinerová, Andrea Diviaková et al.)....Pages 1-9 Landscape as a Geosystem (László Miklós, Erika Kočická, Zita Izakovičová, Dušan Kočický, Anna Špinerová, Andrea Diviaková et al.)....Pages 11-42 Construction and Mapping of Geocomplexes (László Miklós, Erika Kočická, Zita Izakovičová, Dušan Kočický, Anna Špinerová, Andrea Diviaková et al.)....Pages 43-84 Characteristics of the Indicators of Geocomplexes (László Miklós, Erika Kočická, Zita Izakovičová, Dušan Kočický, Anna Špinerová, Andrea Diviaková et al.)....Pages 85-126 Application of the Spatial Information System of Geocomplexes in Model Territory (László Miklós, Erika Kočická, Zita Izakovičová, Dušan Kočický, Anna Špinerová, Andrea Diviaková et al.)....Pages 127-157 Back Matter ....Pages 159-161