Lucie Kupková (Charles University Prague, CZ)

 

Contact details:

Institute for Environmental Studies, Faculty of Science, Benátská 2
128 01 PRAGUE 2, CZECH REPUBLI C

Tel: +420221953118

E-mail: lkupkova@natur.cuni.cz

Career:

My career has been very short so far. I graduated in 1994 at Charles University Prague, Faculty of Science as MSc. in environmental protection. In 1994 I’ve started my PhD studies, specialization Landscape ecology at Institute for Environmental Studies, Faculty of Science, Charles University Prague. The theme of my dissertation is The evaluation of land-use and landscape structure development in Czechia in the period of the last 150 years. I am going to finish my dissertation work this summer. As for my jobs, I was working from 1993 till 1995 as an ecologist at Municipality of Jilemnice town. During the time of my PhD studies in 1996 I became an employee of Institute for Environmental Studies. I gained EIA (Environmental Impact Assessment) authorization in 1995 (Czech Ecological Institute, Prague) and in 1996 I finished postgraduate Course in Clean Production (Czech Centre for Clean Production, Prague). I was a participant of special short term course in Geographical Information Systems for Rural Applications at International Institute for Aerospace Survey and Earth Sciences (ITC) Enschede the Netherlands in winter 1999.

Selected Publications:

L. Mejsnarová, ‘Long-term development of land-use structure. Case study Semily district’, Zmiany w przestrzeni geograficznej w warunkach transformacji spoleczno-ekonomicznej (na przykladzie obszarów wiejskich), Uniwersytet Warszawski, Warszawa 1995, pp. 137-143.

I. Bičík, A. Götz, V. Jančák, L. Jeleček, L. Mejsnarová, V. Štěpánek, ‘Land Use/Land Cover Changes in the Czech Republic 1945 – 1995’, Geography. Collection of Czech Geographical Society, Vol. 101 (1996), No. 2.

L. Kupková, ‘Changing Land-Use Patterns in the Semily District 1845-1995’ ,Acta Environmentalica Carolinae, No. 10 (1997), pp 15-35.

A. Götz, L. Kupková, ‘Long-term development of the arable land extent in the context of natural and economical conditions. Case study East Bohemia region’ The fond of soil in Czech Republic (conference proceedings), Praha 1997, pp. 181-187.

L. Kupková, ‘Land-Use Database in Czechia and its Applications’ Geographic Information Systems. GIS Brno ´98 Conference. Conference proceedings, pp. 41-46.

L. Jeleček,, P. Chromý, L. Kupková, L. Šefrna, V. Štěpánek, ‘Comparison of Land Use Changes in and outside Biosphere Reserves - Case Study Czechia’ ,International Conference ad Ecological Interactions in Biosphere reserves, Luhačovice 1999.

Career

I am a member of LUCC (Land-Use Land Cover) changes research team in Czech republic. There are 8 members from the Department of Social geography and Regional Development and from Institute for Environmental Studies, Faculty of Science, Charles University Prague, several students and collaborators from different universities and institutes in our country.

Since the 1970s the research team has been formulating basic ideas on data sources, methodology, and various methodical approaches to land-use analyses in the Czech Republic. Thanks to the existence of detailed land-use data collected by official survey organizations over many years, time analysis in land-use research can be well carried out.

The project’s database is based on data containing some 13,000 cadastral units covering total territory of Czechia. The average area of each cadastral unit is 609 hectares. For each unit information on the following 8 land use categories is available: arable land, permanent cultures, meadows, pastures, forest areas, water areas, built-up areas, and other areas in 1845, 1948 and 1990. This structure has been grouped into three more general categories (agricultural land, permanent grassland, and remaining areas).

For the sake of comparison in space and time (some cadastral units have changed their area and new ones have been created), some 10,000 of comparable basic territorial units (BTU) covering the whole territory of Czechia, must have been created. The average area of BTU is 790 hectares.

Special sets of ca 40 GIS tables, charts, and cartogramms have been elaborated for all 76 Czech districts, as well as for Prague and former 7 provinces. It is important to note that we can investigate the LU changes under the condition of capitalism (market) economy and so-called planned economy during Communist period and then during its transformation in market economy and capitalism after 1989. The historical experience allows us to solve current problems much more correctly.

The main layers we use for our research are polygon layers of cadasters, basic territorial units, districts and regions. This is the base for our Historic Boundaries GIS project in Czech Republic.

Personal Research:

My personal research deals with multitemporal analysis and assessment of the land-use and landscape structure development in Czech Republic.

On the theoretical level different land use data are processed (old and new cadastral maps, statistical databases, aerialphotos, satellite images) on different scale levels (cadaster, district, region, republic) using various methodology approaches (GIS, image processing, statistical evaluation). Advantages and disadvantages of each method for different scales and landscapes are evaluated to bring out a new methodological recommendation.

In the practical level I observe the consequences of influence of land-use changes on the environment in the different landscapes with the goal to propose arrangements for improvement of environment and landscape management.


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