<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p> Globally, the human population is growing, which causes increasing demands on landscapes. Human activity significantly influences the ecological balance, especially in the negative. Ecological stability is the basis for assessments of all environmental conditions and for assessments according to new land uses. The area of interest is evaluated according to both positive and negative factors. There are many methodologies for calculating ecological stability, e.g., Muchová et al. (2009); Řeháčková - Pauditšová (2007); Kupková (2002); Streďanský et al. (1995) and Löw et al. (1984). </p><p>The aim of this paper is to compare the works of the mentioned authors concerning the ecological stability of the district of Levice (Slovakia), specifically in the municipal cadastre region of Bielovce. The land uses of this territory have changed during some periods. We compared the state of the land uses in the years 1950, 2012 and 2014. During this period, the proportion of arable land increased, and the proportion of forest decreased. In the area of interest, the ecological stability increased, but not as significantly as we expected. The processed data were prepared in GIS.</p></abstract>

Globally, the human population is growing, which causes increasing demands on landscapes. Human activity significantly influences the ecological balance, especially in the negative. Ecological stability is the basis for assessments of all environmental conditions and for assessments according to new land uses. The area of interest is evaluated according to both positive and negative factors. There are many methodologies for calculating ecological stability, e.g., Muchová et al. (2009); Řeháčková - Pauditšová (2007); Kupková (2002); Streďanský et al. (1995) and Löw et al. (1984). The aim of this paper is to compare the works of the mentioned authors concerning the ecological stability of the district of Levice (Slovakia), specifically in the municipal cadastre region of Bielovce. The land uses of this territory have changed during some periods. We compared the state of the land uses in the years 1950, 2012 and 2014. During this period, the proportion of arable land increased, and the proportion of forest decreased. In the area of interest, the ecological stability increased, but not as significantly as we expected. The processed data were prepared in GIS.

Assessment of the Ecological Stability of the Village of Bielovce as a Result of to Changes in Land Use

Department of Land and Water Management, Faculty of Civil Engineering, Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava, Radlinského 11, 810 05 Bratislava, Slovakia

Slovak Journal of Civil Engineering

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Globally, the human population is growing, which causes increasing demands on landscapes. Human activity significantly influences the ecological balance,...

Assessment of the Ecological Stability of the Village of Bielovce as a Result of to Changes in Land Use

Published Online: Jul 08, 2016

Page range: 1 - 6

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/sjce-2016-0006

Keywords
ecological stability, methodological procedures, coefficient of ecological stability

© Faculty of Civil Engineering, Slovak University of Technology

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Assessment of the Ecological Stability of the Village of Bielovce as a Result of to Changes in Land Use

Published Online: Jul 08, 2016

Page range: 1 - 6

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/sjce-2016-0006

Keywordsecological stability, methodological procedures, coefficient of ecological stability

© Faculty of Civil Engineering, Slovak University of Technology

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License.

Keywords
ecological stability, methodological procedures, coefficient of ecological stability