- Head of the research group: Assoc. Prof. Ing. Ľubica Hudecová, PhD., lubica.hudecova@stuba.sk
Research focus
The ownership right to land is one of the fundamental issues affecting the development of the state. Slovakia is one of the states where the landscape mosaic is subject to many influences (urbanization, anthropogenic and natural landscape-forming processes, as well as social interests), which is reflected in the shape and size of agricultural land blocks, in the arrangement of landscape elements that are cultivated, and finally in their quality. However, the ownership and nature of land use have a fundamental influence on the quality of the landscape mosaic. The absence of organized land ownership directly affects not only the visual characteristics of the landscape, but also has a direct negative impact on ecological relations in the landscape, the quality of biodiversity and overall territorial development.
Landscape protection and management is a complex and continuous process of cross-craft and inter-ministerial nature. The last two mentioned attributes create a prerequisite for complicated approval of any change in the landscape, which is related to a change in land use, planning processes, the interests of nature and landscape protection (at both national and European levels), or economic activities, etc. The implementation of all the above changes and interventions in the landscape is conditional on the settlement of ownership relations to the land, which create, through land consolidation projects, a basic prerequisite for successful planning processes, at the highest level in terms of the detail of data processing.
