SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT OF ECOLOGICALLY SENSITIVE RURAL AREAS: CASE STUDIES OF THE MORAVIAN KARST (CZECH REPUBLIC) AND THE DEVETASHKO PLATO (BULGARIA)
Problems of Geography, 2016, Vol.3-4, DOI: https://doi.org/10.35101/PRG-2016.3-4.4
Jana Zapletalová, Dilyana Stefanova, Antonín Vaishar, Petar Stefanov, Petr Dvořák, Emilia Tcherkezova
Abstract:
The paper is aimed at an analysis and comparison of two karst areas. Among common problems of both territories are: sewage of untreated waste water from settlements and industrial plants to the underground space, infiltration of fertilizers and pesticides to underground spaces during torrential rains, washing away the topsoil into the underground space. The main difference consist in geographical positions. Whereas Moravian Karts is situated in the vicinity of the regional center Brno and is partly a subject of suburbanization, Devetashko Plato marked depopulation tendencies. From it follows that Moravian Karst is under pressure of urbanization and tourism which compete with landscape protection. On the other side, Devetashko Plato area is not socially sustainable. These conditions create different approaches for the future management. In any case, the imaginations about the quantitative development should be abandoned. In both the cases the territories have to ensure sustainability in all three pillars: environmental, social and economic.
Keywords:
social development, rural sensitive areas, Devetashko Plato, Bulgaria, Moravian karst, Czech republic
Acknowledgements:
The paper was elaborated within the project of the bilateral cooperation between Czech and Bulgarian academies of sciences named “Comparative evaluation of land use practices in vulnerable case study areas in Bulgaria and Czechia”. In the Czech side, the investigation has been also supported within the support of the long-term conceptual development of research organizations No. RVO: 68145535.
Author information:
Author: Jana Zapletalová
E-mail: zapletalova@geonika.cz
Affiliation: Department of Environmental Geography Brno, Institute of Geonics, Ostrava, Czech Academy of Sciences
Author: Dilyana Stefanova
E-mail: dili_stefanova@abv.bg
Affiliation: National Institute of Geophysics, Geodesy and Geography – BAS, str. Acad. G. Bonchev, bl. 3, Sofia 1113, Bulgaria
Author: Antonín Vaishar
E-mail: vaishar@geonika.cz
Affiliation: Department of Environmental Geography Brno, Institute of Geonics, Ostrava, Czech Academy of Sciences
Author: Petar Stefanov
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Affiliation: National Institute of Geophysics, Geodesy and Geography – BAS, str. Acad. G. Bonchev, bl. 3, Sofia 1113, Bulgaria
Author: Petr Dvořák
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Affiliation: Department of Environmental Geography Brno, Institute of Geonics, Ostrava, Czech Academy of Sciences
Author: Emilia Tcherkezova
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Affiliation: National Institute of Geophysics, Geodesy and Geography – BAS, str. Acad. G. Bonchev, bl. 3, Sofia 1113, Bulgaria
How to cite:
Zapletalová, J., Stefanova, D., Vaishar, A., Stefanov, P., Dvořák, P., & Tcherkezova, E. (2016). SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT OF ECOLOGICALLY SENSITIVE RURAL AREAS: CASE STUDIES OF THE MORAVIAN KARST (CZECH REPUBLIC) AND THE DEVETASHKO PLATO (BULGARIA). Problems of Geography, 2016, Vol.3-4, p. 65-84. https://doi.org/10.35101/PRG-2016.3-4.4