Ostrava-Karviná mining district - Landscape development - Land cover - Land use - Industrialisation - Industrial Revolution - 19th century - 20th century

The authors attempted to answer the question what objective processes were taking place in the Ostrava-Karviná mining district during the 19th and the 20th century. The research observed the impact of human activity caused by the process of industrialisation in a long-term view, specifically from the 1830s up to the beginning of the 21st century. Based upon a microanalytical approach, it was possible to establish individual geographic areas within the Ostrava-Karviná mining district which differ due to their landscape development. This analysis enabled to detect basic processes which took place in the landscape of the Ostrava-Karviná mining district through the course of the 19th and 20th century. Further, it was possible to indicate the directions, intensity and speed of landscape change in individual stages of the industrialisation process.

The authors attempted to answer the question what objective processes were taking place in the Ostrava-Karviná mining district during the 19th and the 20th century. The research observed the impact of human activity caused by the process of industrialisation in a long-term view, specifically from the 1830s up to the beginning of the 21st century. Based upon a microanalytical approach, it was possible to establish individual geographic areas within the Ostrava-Karviná mining district which differ due to their landscape development. This analysis enabled to detect basic processes which took place in the landscape of the Ostrava-Karviná mining district through the course of the 19th and 20th century. Further, it was possible to indicate the directions, intensity and speed of landscape change in individual stages of the industrialisation process.