Working groups and themes
Landscape assessment This topic represents our primary field of interest, while focusing on methods of integrative landscape assessment, landscape synthesis (social + natural, and potential + risk evaluation), use of GIS and virtual reality technologies in landscape assessment and planning (land cover and land use changes, landscape fragmentation analysis, visual quality assessment, etc.). As a basis for integrative assessment, we use the results of our detailed analyses of natural and social environment.
Environmental geomorphology The working group aims at geomorphologic aspects of natural environment and of cultural landscape assessments. We deal with risk processes (low-onset floods and flash floods, mass movements), anthropogenic transformation of a landscape (mining) and landform-ecostystem relations. In a study of these issues, we apply primarily geomorphological, historical-geographical and biogeomorphologic methods.
Cultural landscapes and identities This theme primarily pursues the socio-cultural values of our environment. We employ concepts of landscape memory, regional identity and community resilience to study current transformtaion of both urban and rural space. We also try to find the ways of implementation of these concepts to landscape and regional planning (involving decision makers, stakeholders, NGOs, etc.).
Research projects
Methodical procedure of social and ecological links assessment with economic transformation: theory and application. Project is financially supported by Ministry of labour and social affairs of the Czech Republic (Project number 1J008/04-DP1; head of the team - Jiri Andel; period 2004-2009).
Formation of social structures on the background of changing cultural landscape in the period of economic transformation. Project is financially supported by Grant Agency of the Czech Republic (Project number 403/06/0243; head of the team - Jiri Andel; period 2006-2008).
Post-mining morphodynamics and landscape ecological effects of quarries in the Ceske stredohori Middle Mts. Project is financially supported by Grant Agency of the JEP University (head of the team - Pavel Raska; period 2010-2011).
Disturbation regimes in Quaternary morphogenesis of the Elbe River valley in central part of the Ceske Stredohori Middle Mts. Project is financially supported by Grant Agency of the JEP University (head of the team - Pavel Raska; period 2011-2012).
Reference basis of documentary data for research and practical solution of natural hazards. Project is financially supported by Grant Agency of the JEP University (head of the team - Pavel Raska; period 2012-2013; cooperation with Department of History UJEP - Vilem Zabransky).
Documentary data sources for research of social perception and adaptation strategies to selected historic natural hazards in the Czech Republic. Project is financially supported by Grant Agency of the Czech Republic (head of the team - Pavel Raska; period 2013-2015).
Landscape - people - disastres: landscape transformation and adaptation to difficult natural environment in a historical geographical perspective. Project is financially supported by Grant Agency of the JEP University (head of the team - Pavel Raska; period 2013-2014; team members: Jiri Riezner, Tomas Matejcek, Martin Dolejs; cooperation with Department of History UJEP - Vilem Zabransky).
Non-agricultural and non-tourism economic industries in rural peripheries of the Visegrad countries. Project is financially supported by International Viszegrad Fund (head of the team - Vladan Hruska; period 2014).
Institutional co-operation in regions as a tool for overcoming the territorial inequalities in access to elementary education. Project is financially supported by Grant Agency of the Czech Republic (head of the team - Sylvie R. Kucerova; period 2012-2014).
Individual and organizational decision-making in environmental risk reduction: determinants, motivations and efficiency. Project is financially supported by Grant Agency of the Czech Republic (head of the team - Pavel Raska; period 2016-2018).
GeoScape Journal
In 2006, we have established a peer-reviewed journal GeoScape as a platform for geographers, landscape scientists, planners and regional economists to publish their research. Since its beginnings the interdisciplinarity of papers has been strongly encouraged and cross-border and multicultural topics have been accentuated. Further, the papers ideally discuss the relevance of the methodical procedures and the results for public sector, planning and regional development.
Since 2014, the journal is published on DeGruyter platform
Indexing: among others, the journal is indexed in Web of Science Core Collection and ERIH+
Past issues preceding 2014 are available below:
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Recent papers from LSRU
RASKA, P., ZABRANSKY, V., DUBISAR, J., KADLEC, T., HRBACOVA, A., KADLEC, A. (2014): Documentary proxies and interdisciplinary research on historic geomorphologic hazards: a discussion of the current state from a central European perspective. Natural Hazards 70(1): 705-732. DOI: 10.1007/s11069-013-0839-z
RASKA, P. (2013): Political regulations and social perception of natural risks: "risk society", the Czech experience and the European context. AUC Geographica 48(2): 61-74.
RASKA, P., KLIMES, J., DUBISAR, J. (in press): Using local archive sources to reconstruct historical landslide occurrence in selected urban regions of the Czech Republic: examples from regions with different historical development. Land Degradation and Development, DOI: 10.1002/ldr.2192
BALEJ, M. (in press) Landscape metrics as indicators of the structural landscape changes - two case studies from the Czech Republic after 1948. Journal of Land Use Science. DOI:10.1080/1747423X.2011.597443 download »
RASKA, P. (2012) Biogeomorphologic Approaches to a Study of Hillslope Processes Using Non-Destructive Methods. In: Piacentini, T., Miccadei, E. (eds.) Studies on Environmental and Applied Geomorphology. Intech, Rijeka, 21-44. download »
RASKA, M., RASKA, P., POSPISIL, K., KIRCHNER, K. (2011) Using geodetic techniques for geomorphologic analyses of scree slopes in low-altitude forested regions and its implication for conservation management. Geographia Technica, 6(2): 87-100. download »
RASKA, P., KIRCHNER, K., RASKA, M. (2011) Winter microclimatic regime of low-altitude scree slopes and its relation to topography: case study from the Ceske Stredohori Mts. (N Czech Republic). Geografia Fisica e Dinamica Quaternaria, 34(2): 235-246. download »
BALEJ, M., ANDEL, J. (2011) Typology of the districts in Czechia based on land cover structure. Geografie, 116(2): 172-190. download »
RASKA, P., BALEJ, M., RASKA, M. (2011) Differential evolution of rockwall and talus cones in an abandoned basalt quarries and its implications for restoration management: case study from the Radobyl Hill, N Czech Republic. International Journal of Mining, Reclamation and Environment, 25(4): 297-312. download »
RASKA, P., KIRCHNER, K. (2011) Assessing the landscape changes in the region affected by military activity and uranium mining (Prameny, W Czech Republic): a multiscale approach. Moravian Geographical Reports, 19(4): 235-246. download »
BALEJ, M., ANDEL, J. (2010) Political changes and consequences of their actions for land cover in the Czech Republic after 1989. Geograficky casopis, 62(3): 201-220. download »
RASKA, P. (2010) Types and character of geomorphic processes on a central-European low-altitude scree slope (NW Czechia) and their environmental interpretation. Moravian Geographical Reports, 18(4): 11-19. download »
RASKA, P. (2010) Quaternary morphogenesis of the Elbe valley in central part of the Ceske stredohori Mts.: new data from GIS analyses and relative dating of stony accumulations and slope depressions. Zpravy o geologickych vyzkumech/Geoscience Research Reports, 59: 113-117. download »
RASKA, P., ORSULAK, T. (2009) Biogeomorphic effects of trees on rock-mantled slopes: searching for dynamic equilibrium. Geograficky casopis, 61(1): 19-28. download »
BALEJ, M., ANDEL, J., ORSULAK, T., RASKA, P. (2008) Development of environmental stress in Northwestern part of Czech Republic - new approaches and methods. Geografie - sbornik CGS, 113(3): 320-336. download »
BALEJ, M., ANDEL, J. (2008) Land use changes and environmental stress accounting (case study from northwestern part of the Czech-German borderland). Journal of Geography and Regional Planning, 1(5): 97-109. download »
RASKA, P. (2007) Comments on the recent dynamics of scree slopes in the Czech Middle Mts. Geomorphologica Slovaca et Bohemica, 7(1): 43-49. download »
BALEJ, M. (2006) To landscape ecological research of selected features in cultural landscape. Acta Geographica Universitatis Comenianae, 49: 9-17.
ANDEL, J. (2006) On the Socio-geographic Examination of Selected Aspects of the Cultivated Landscape. Acta Geographica Universitatis Comenianae, 49: 5 - 8.
