Assessing the vulnerability to land degradation of (not only) rural landscapes using the ESAI index

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Alternative codes found

RIV/61989592:15310/22:73610913

Result on the web

<a href="https://www.sciendo.com/article/10.2478/jlecol-2021-0020" target="_blank" >https://www.sciendo.com/article/10.2478/jlecol-2021-0020</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/jlecol-2021-0020" target="_blank" >10.2478/jlecol-2021-0020</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Assessing the vulnerability to land degradation of (not only) rural landscapes using the ESAI index

Original language description

Determining the vulnerability of land to degradation is a crucial factor enabling policynmakers to take targeted actions. The main aim of this work was to determine vulnerability tonland degradation using the Environmentally Sensitive Area Index (ESAI) in the territory ofn206 municipalities with extended power (MEPs), regions (NUTS 3) and in the CzechnRepublic (CR). The other two aims were found out i) whether land degradation is affected bynland use characterized by landscape types according to Löw et al. (2006) and ii) whether landndegradation occurred in larger territorial units (regions) or scattered across the CR (innindividual isolated MEPs). The Environmentally Sensitive Area (ESA) method assesses thenvulnerability of an area to land degradation using a composite index containing indicatorsndivided into four thematic groups: human activity pressure and management intensity,nvegetation cover and vegetation quality, climate, and soil in the assessed area. The ESAInindex is expressed on a semi-quantitative scale ranging from the lowest levels of degradationn(land not affected and land potentially affected by degradation) to the highest level ofndegradation (land at high risk). Most MEPs with a share of more than 70 % of their area werenin the category ,,moderately critical areas,, at risk of land degradation were located in thenCentral Bohemia region (15 MEPs) and in the South Moravia region (14 MEPs). For thenwhole territory of the Czech Republic, 51 % of the territory was found to be criticallynvulnerable to land degradation, and 38 % of the republic area was vulnerable to landndegradation. Vulnerability to land degradation was strongly influenced by the landscapentype. Almost all MEPs with a predominantly agricultural landscapes were criticallynvulnerable to land degradation, as were about half of the MEPs in the forest-agricultural andnurban landscapes and only a few MEPs in the forest landscapes. Given the selectednindicators, the MEP seems to be the appropriate smallest administrative unit to assessnvulnerability to land degradation in the Czech Republic. The map of individual ESAI valuesncan be viewed free of charge online at http://www.imalbes.cz/vysledek.php. We are currentlynpreparing a proposal for appropriate measures to prevent and reduce land degradationnthroughout the territory of the Czech Republic, and our proposals are coordinated withnrepresentatives of the MEPs and regions.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_SC - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the SCOPUS database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

10618 - Ecology

Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2021

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Journal of Landscape Ecology

ISSN

1803-2427

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

2021

Issue of the periodical within the volume

14

Country of publishing house

CZ - CZECH REPUBLIC

Number of pages

18

Pages from-to

128-145

UT code for WoS article

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EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85123985401