Delineation of post-industrial landscapes of the Upper-Silesian corridor in the Basin of Ostrava
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| Year of publication | 2013 |
| Type | Article in Periodical |
| Magazine / Source | Environmental and Socio-economic Studies |
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| Field | Earth magnetism, geography |
| Keywords | delineation - brownfields - Upper Silesia - GIS |
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| Description | The post-industrial landscapes represent a legacy of the industrial revolution. There have been gradually formed numerous enterprises of various industry branches on the territory between Czech-Polish border in the North and Moravian-Silesian Beskydes Mts. (a part of Carpathians) in the South (the western border follows the foothills of Hercynian Bohemian Highlands). This paper demonstrates the procedure for defining the post-industrial landscapes in general, their classification and standardization using the available data sources and GIS technology. For the processing the data of the deployment of brownfields, contaminated sites, industrial constructions of architectural heritage, mining points and areas, human made landforms, industrial and landfill sites etc. were used. They document the genesis, the territorial shape and the geographic position of the post-industrial landscape in the study region. |