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• Cadastral survey of unique landscape features via the examples of Vászoly, Hungary

  20-35

  Szilvia Tóth

  Judit Endrődi

  Gergely Horvát

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  168

  In the Hungarian legal system the Act on Nature Conservation contains a peculiar category, the notion of the unique landscape feature. The unique landscape feature is a natural or man-made object which represents value for local people. The purpose of this study is on the one hand to familiarize this specific category, on the other hand to introduce the method of cadastral survey via the example of a small Hungarian settlement, Vászoly. Vászoly and its surroundings are situated on the south-eastern part of the Balaton Uplands, a part of the Bakony Region. In spite of the survey, the distribution of the features among the categories reflects the national tendency, that is, most of the cadastred landscape features in Vászoly are cultural-historical ones, because these types of features are located mostly within the inner areas of the settlements, which makes them easier to survey. However, these features are not always really valuable. It can be stated that most of the features are related to the settlement (mostly features of sacral traditions) and agricultural production (first of all features of viniculture). Surveying the sets of the unique landscape features, the changing landscape patterns, the certain landscape characters and the peculiarities of the landscape explain their origin and former function.

• The concept of the landscape and its acceptance in the practice

  93-104

  László Miklós

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  119

  The landscape is historically perceived basically in two ways: as a tangible material reality and also as an intangible, mental and artistic experience. The basic practical policies related to the landscape ecology under the umbrella conception of the integrated land resources management are based on materialistic geocomplex/geosystem conception. In last decades a massive wave of the “friends of landscape” appeared, who shifted their attendance to the cultural-historical-value and perception based approach to the landscape. This wave is supported by the compromiss soft definition of the landscape and the wording of the European Landscape Convention. Nevertheless, the penetration of the landscape to the practical policies requires the materialistic approach and definition of the landscape.

• Directions and prospects of transformation in cultural landscapes of Poland - considerations and attempts of evaluation

  44-57

  Urszula Myga-Piatek

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  85

  The article points to several very up-to-date issues that occur in relation with the vanishing of traditional forms of land use and introduction of new, other than indigenous, management styles in Poland. Current processes of deterioration of the structure of the cultural landscapes have been discussed with regard to natural values and the historical process of land management by man. The article is a peculiar case study for quite common negative transformation of the polish countryside caused by relatively free use of the space, legal negligence, low awareness and poor identification of residents with the landscape – the countryside which loses its peculiar and typical features as the result of “mass consumption”. The text also presents positive examples of care taken for the regional landscape and lists initiatives aimed at improving the image of polish area.

• The scenic value of abandoned mining areas in Poland

  132-142

  Urszula Myga-Piątek

  Jerzy Nita

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  132

  Abandoned Polish mining areas are commonly heavily transformed so that they endanger no longer the environment. A disadvantage is that the newly created areas commonly contribute to the monotonous urban-industrial landscape, rather than providing additional value. This is partly due to legislation that hampers a more diversified management of abandoned mining areas as potentially valuable landforms. One of the legal barriers that restricts the possibilities of making these areas more attractive, regards the utilization of remaining exploitation holes (i.e. land depressions of at least 2 m deep, formed as a result of open-pit mining of energy, chemical, building or metallurgical resources) and waste heaps as important cultural and scenic elements. Such a new use of these old mininginduced phenomena is important if it is intended not only to involve the regional population in the process of exploring and exploiting the earth’s resources, but also to confront them with some negative consequences of these activities, including shaping the landscape in which these objects are situated. The current attitude towards a new architecture for abandoned mining areas should be reconsidered; particularly the present-day approach based on narrow specializations – for instance of experts in mineral exploitation, spatial planning or environmental protection – should be replaced by interdisciplinary action regarding shaping the landscape of abandoned mining areas.