Preliminary communication
https://doi.org/10.5673/sip.50.3.3
Post-socialism and Environment: Change of Cultural Landscape in the Drava Valley and Osijek in the Last 50 Years
Jelena Lončar
orcid.org/0000-0003-2580-1931
; Faculty of Science, Department of Geography, University of Zagreb, Croatia
Marin Cvitanović
; Faculty of Science, Department of Geography, University of Zagreb, Croatia
Abstract
Socio-economic and social changes affect the environment. The changing structure of
population (work and education) and changing economic conditions of production indirectly
change the environment. This can be seen in the disappearance of traditional land cultivation,
the intensification of agriculture, spreading of urban way of life into rural areas or, on the
other hand, certain areas are abandoned and left to secondary succession. Consequently,
landscape loses its identity and is left to inadequate improvement or degradation. The EU,
however, insists on the efficient introduction and implementation of measures to protect the
landscape. In the recent years a lot of interdisciplinary reasearch has focused on the analysis
of the changing cultural landscapes. In this work we examine the changes in the Drava
valley and the town of Osijek in the period between 1961 and 2011 which also includes the
following settlements: Tenja, Brijest, Briješće, Višnjevac, Josipovac, Tvrđavica, Sarvaš, Klisa,
Nemetin and Podravlje. Methods of remote research and statistical data processing were used.
The town of Osijek went through significant social and economic changes in the observed
period. They directly and indirectly affected the state of land and its usage and thus the
cultural landscape. Processes of the physical alteration of the landscape were noted as well as
socio-economic, demographic and other elements which caused those changes. The obtained
results show the significance and extent of the changes.
Keywords
the Drava valley; Osijek; cultural landscape; agrarian landscape; transition period
Hrčak ID:
96098
URI
Publication date:
8.1.2013.
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