Landscape management, its functionality and esthetic value: a case study of Czech Banat area of Romania

Bc. Aneta Veselá

Master's thesis

Abstract:

The diploma thesis deals with landscape and landscape management in local communities. The main research location is the Czech based local community in Romania in the Banat region, the village of Gernik. The current state of the landscape and landscape management of the village Gernik is examined. Furthermore, approach to the landscape management is compared between the aforementioned Czech based local community and the Romanian based local community Padina Matei, which are 3,5 kilometers apart. The methodology of the thesis was a five-month field research in which interviews were collected in the Czech community and the results of which are in the qualitative part of the work, a month later, a questionnaire survey took place in both villages. The result of the thesis is finding difference in the landscape management of the villages, substantiating that Gernik shows more agricultural activity than Padina Matei. The diploma thesis is supplemented with author's photos and maps.

Abstract:

The diploma thesis deals with landscape and landscape management in local communities. The main research location is the Czech based local community in Romania in the Banat region, the village of Gernik. The current state of the landscape and landscape management of the village Gernik is examined. Furthermore, approach to the landscape management is compared between the aforementioned Czech based local community and the Romanian based local community Padina Matei, which are 3,5 kilometers apart. The methodology of the thesis was a five-month field research in which interviews were collected in the Czech community and the results of which are in the qualitative part of the work, a month later, a questionnaire survey took place in both villages. The result of the thesis is finding difference in the landscape management of the villages, substantiating that Gernik shows more agricultural activity than Padina Matei. The diploma thesis is supplemented with author's photos and maps.

Keywords

Banat, Gernik, Landscape

Keywords

Gernik, Banat, Landscape

Language used: English

Date on which the thesis was submitted / produced: 14. 5. 2023

Thesis defence

• Date of defence: 13. 6. 2023
• Supervisor: prof. Ing. Petr Blížkovský, Ph.D.
• Reader: Ivo Pavlík, CSc.

Mendel University in Brno

Faculty of Regional Development and International Studies

Master programme:
International Territorial Studies