This diploma thesis Identity of the Landscape and Rural Development deals with sustainable development of countryside and preservation of landscape identity. In the beginnig is the thesis focused on cultural development of landscape. In the teoreticial part the thesis deals with problematics of landscape identity, rural development, landscape management and subsidy titles. The cadastral territory of village Sněžné was chosen for this thesis. Sněžné is located in the area of CHKO Žďárské vrchy. The analytical part researches the primary, secondary and tertiary landscape structure. The identity of landscape area, its values and issues are intended from this researche. The practical part offers suggestions on biotechnical and landscape measures and develops design of instructive trail.

The Diplom Thesis deals with the possibilities of agricultural landscape optimization in model area Polička and Pomezí to Pardubice Region. The literary overview attention is paid to the historical development of agriculture, the current state of soil in the Czech Republic and the possibility of improving the current state, especially in the form of land consolidation. In the practical part of the thesis, problematic places of the territory were defined on the basis of detailed analysis. The result of the work is a map of the design of optimization measures and recommendations for recommendations especially for users of agricultural land. The study itself should serve as a basis for possible land consolidation or other landscaping.

The thesis revives the issue of bringing foreign elements into the rural environment. The thesis warns about their unsuitability and brings old-new solutions to support local idiom. As a model area was chosen Rymice village in the region of Hana, intensively farmed landscape with fertile soil. In the historical maps and aerial photographs, there was identified land use pattern dominican (related to the manor) and track. The subject of close interest was the exploration of the importance of land use pattern and its manifestation in the village - how the individual fields and lines inscribe into the village floor plan and thus how the organization of soil/ land fund influenced the arrangement of gardens. In Rymice, based on field research, basic categories of gardens were defined in relation to land use pattern. This classification is the basis for the next part – design/ project. The design part deals with the protection of the preserved historical structure, i.e. the traditional arrangement of belt gardens with utility function, as well as the superstructure structure disturbed (quarter of catalog houses). The penultimate theme deals with a new foundation, where it is the creation of a new residential area with the principles of the traditional arrangement of gardens within the contemporary garden. The last theme is the landscape exposition of the homeland colony in Hejnice, which includes reflections on the restoration of the historical structure or the foundation of a new, non-original structure.

The topic of this diploma thesis is research of transformation of the cultural landscape in two selected cadastral areas in microregion Bystřicko. It is about cadastral area of Rovečné and Vír. In this diploma thesis was used method of literature research, comparative method, survey investigation, cartographic investigation, semi-standardized interviews and SWOT analysis. At first is created detailed characteristics of model areas and cartographic investigation. The results of the survey and semi-standardized interviews are described and then is elaborated a SWOT analysis and its comparison and then the results of comparison of model areas. At the end are solved the results. Changes in the acreage are mention of the last 174 years. In Vír are these changes chiefly on arable land, forests and water areas. At Rovečné these changes are not so significant, but again they are mainly on arable land, forest soil and permanent grasslands. My hypothesis has been confirmed.

The general subject of this thesis is a new term in the practice of spatial planning: spatial study of the landscape. In this thesis the status of the term in spatial and landscape planning discourse is presented. What is, therefore, a spatial study of landscape, which terms it uses, who assigns it and how, who processes it and on what foundation, which strategic documents are respected and which are amended, what is the future and present condition of processing such study on the state level. In the methodology and results part there are suggested possibilities of a forest landscape analysis for purposes of a spatial study of the landscape: which foundations might be analysed and how, approach to both reconnaissance and design phases, how results might look and what is their actual meaning.

Study of landscape change is a subject of interest for a wide range of professional work both in the Czech republic and abroad. This thesis therefore does not give a simple description of the changes in the landscape, but rather focuses on the further synthesis of these findings and the subsequent creation of a typology of land cover changes and their impacts on landscape structure in the region of interest, including also its heterogeneity. It is therefore a process of allocated areas that formed and still form the same processes that lead to homogenization of the landscape, as opposed to its fragmentation. Area of interest is so-called Visegrad Group of countries (Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary and Poland). There are four countries of the former Eastern bloc in Central Europe, which shared some relatively similar initial conditions for the further development of the landscape after the "release" of the regime change in 1989. The landscape began to develop in different way. Each country began a different way to approach a completely different landscape interfering in its development. Review starts with describing landscape development in the period up to 1989, when it was not too taken of the ecological functions and the importance of the landscape. This period was characterized by the...

The paper maps the community of Common Juniper (Juniperus Communis) encountered at Konrac, a site included in the Česká Kanada Nature Preserve. The site itself, or rather the common juniper growing there, does not have the benefit of special legal protection; consequently, no targeted steps have been taken to maintain the juniper community intact in the Konrac landscape - still, the site allowed to monitor the natural development of the community in conditions typical of the current methods of farming. The locality is described to encompass four main types of habitats: stony islands amid meadows; unplowed strips of land around former small fields; peripheries of open stands; and peripheries of close stands. The acquired (and subsequently processed) data point to the conclusion that the habitat at the unplowed margins of fields suits the common juniper communities quite well, even without any human intervention in the farming practices beyond what is implemented on the site now.

The object of this paper is searching for the significance of understanding landscape in the formation of human religiosity. The first part of the paper called Human and landscape attempts to present general characteristics of the relationship of humans and landscape. The second part is devoted to the development of landscape perception of some authors (J. J. Rousseau, Jiří Sádlo, Václav Cílek). The third chapter finds connections between internal experience and the environment humans live in. It is a dynamic relationship which affects the formation of religiosity. Further, human religiosity, the symbolic meaning of landscape and the specific characteristics of adolescence are defined. The conclusion presents particular suggestions for educational work with young adolescents by means of dialogue and participation in landscape.

Diploma thesis deals with detailed analysis and following application of selected economical methods for evaluation of ecosystems services and functions of nature onto concrete example of floodplain of river Lužnice. For the determination of economical potential of landscape, Contingent Valuation Method, Method of Pointing Valuation of Biotopes of the Czech Republic and Replacement Cost Method, was applicated. According to achieved results, the comparison of usability and effectivity of various methods of evaluation of landscape, was performed. Presented thesis is completed by sociological survey of stakeholders in relation to the model area.

The main aim of this thesis is assessment of land use changes from half of the 19th century to present in the western part of the České středohoří Mts. Changes in land use categories proportion, development of ecological stability of landscape, development of land use diversity and influence of physical-geographic conditions on land use changes were assessed. The second aim is assessment of abandoned land occurrence in the area. All abandoned lands were mapped and then relationship between abandoned lands occurrence and physical-geographic conditions was assessed. Key words: landscape development, land use, abandoned lands, old maps, České středohoří Mts.