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The Importance of Implementing Transparent Geological Structure Into Land-use Planning Documentation

Marian Marschalko, Tomas Penaz, Lucie Fojtova
Transactions of the VSB - Technical University of Ostrava, Civil Engineering Series
2009, Volume 9, Issue 1, Pages 217-226
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Land-use planning is an activity that permits rational utilization of the landscape on the basis of certain natural connections. It is a system that develops in time and brings new information and experience gained from a number of fields. This better helps to reflect the needs of the landscape and at the same time to improve this sophisticated process. There is no doubt that it is the information on the geological environment that belongs among information which limits the utilization of landscape in terms of its exploitation. Talking of human activities, even more important are details on the engineering-geological environment focused on the research of such part of the environment that interacts with anthropogenic activities, engineering structures in particular. The geological structure is a very complex environment changing in space and thus the elementary need for its exploitation in land-use planning are simplified models with similar characteristics. Those needs are met by expansion of engineering-geological zones. In land-use planning there is a significant deficit in this issue not only in the Czech Republic but world-wide. An example of a possible solution is drawn in this paper applied in a researched part of the city of Ostrava with its exceptional anthropogenic changes in the geological environment in the city districts of Slezska Ostrava (Koblov, Antosovice) and outside Ostrava, in Silherovice, Vrbice and Pudlov, defined by a map sheet 15-41-25 in 1:10 000 scale.
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