DOI: 10.11118/978-80-7701-087-0-0038

ASSESSMENT OF LANDSCAPE VULNERABILITY IN THE CZECH-SLOVAK BORDER REGION USING NATIONAL APPROACHES

Vilém Pechanec¹, Peter Mederly², Pavel Cudlín³, Michal Ševčík², Karel Macků¹, Jiří Jakubínský³

¹ Palacky University, Faculty of Science, Dept. of Geoinformatics, 17.listopadu 50, 771 46 Olomouc, Czechia

² Constantine the Philosopher University in Nitra Faculty of Natural Sciences and Informatics, Dept. of Ecology and Environmental Science, Tr. A. Hlinku 1, 949 01 Nitra, Slovakia

³ Global Change Research Institute CAS, Bělidla 986/4a, 603 00 Brno, Czechia

Currently, there are important methodological procedures (applications) for landscape vulnerability assessment on both sides of the border Czech-Slovak Republic border.  In Slovakia it is the application "Horia obce" and in the Czech ESAI+. However, both approaches focus only on their territories, taking into account administrative borders and the availability of national datasets.
In our study (carried out in the framework of the Interreg project JIZKES), the two methodologies were first compared at the level of the concept of the evaluation. This was followed by an analysis of the data used and the possibility of equivalent data sets on the other side of the border. Both methods were then applied, first on the home side and then on the opposite side, at the extent of the selected adjacent counties, to produce seamless maps of the whole study area. The main differences were identified in the climate data used (value, resolution) and the detail of the habitat map. The resulting maps were published on the project's public map portal. Finally, the applicability of the methodologies was evaluated using the SWOT method to create a (new) unified landscape vulnerability methodology applicable in both countries.

Keywords: GIS, landscape analyses, vulnerability

pages: 38-41, Published: 2026, online: 2026