The management of water eco-systems on a general level is a part of a larger issue of the environmental management in a particular region. In the case of river wetlands, it is especially about the connection of the economic management of the area with the environmental management whose objective...

Regeneration of brownfields in developed countries is perceived as a complex process of changes of the entire society and landscape. It does not include only various social, economic and ecological aspects, but also the entire look and management of the area. Methods or tools for regeneration of...

This article presents a general comparative analysis of two kinds of approach - linear "disciplinary" and non-linear "trans-disciplinary" - used in the assessment of marginal areas. These approaches reflect different kinds of thinking about marginal areas more than describe specific modelling...

The realistic approach to the rural development requires primarily a consensual definition of a rural area. The selection of tools to be applied and measures to be taken to influence rural areas as well as the setting up the institutional framework would be difficult without defining the object...

Almost every landscape fulfils various important functions for human society. Nevertheless, planning does not always allocate individual functions the significance that they ought to receive in comparison with others. A typical example is undervaluing landscape services that cannot be expressed...