Land use and land cover changes in the peripheral regions of Czechia

The contribution deals with the analysis of land use development in the peripheral, borderline territory of South Bohemia. The analysis of the development of land structure has been carried out at two levels; at level of districts from 1960, and at level of judicial districts that existed as natural regional units in the territory of Czechia till the year 1949. The development of land use structure has been observed in the years 1845, 1948, 1990 and 2000 aiming at revealing of general and specific developmental features, causes and consequences of land use changes. The observed area demonstrates strong dichotomy in the meaning of physic-geographical differentiation as well as different developmental tendencies (determination by bordering localisation, the transfer of the Czech Germans). The analysis of land use development and the development of regional differentiation in the period of transformation was not the least objective9510