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and afforestation. Furthermore, large parts of these relatively “empty” regions were
designated as National Parks (Šumava and Podyjí/Thaya) by the Czech government.
Acknowledgements This work was supported by the Grant Agency of the Czech Republic,
project no. GA CR 205/09/0995: “Regional differentiation and possible risks of land use as a reflec-
tion of functional changes of landscape in Czechia 1990-2010” (project leader: I. Bicík) and by
the Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports, project no. MSM0021620831 “Geographical sys-
tems and risk processes in context of global changes and European integration” (project leader:
L. Sýkora).
Notes
1. White colour marks the subset Interior; see text for more explanation.
2. “Sudetenland” consists of BTUs with more than 50% of population of German nationality
according to the 1930 census; “peripheral spatial position” adopted from Hampl et al. (1987);
see text for more explanation.
3. Index of change (IC, e.g. Bicík, 1995 or Jelecek, 2002) describes by one number the overall
intensity of land-use change. The number, ranging from 0 to 100, shows the percentage of the
whole area on which any land-use change occurred between the two time horizons. (Source:
CORINE Land-cover database, own calculations, Najman, 2008)
4. Source: CORINE Land-cover database, own calculations, Najman (2008).
5. Source: CORINE Land-cover database, own calculations, Najman (2008).
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