Industrial zones and their benefits for society

Jaroslava Janků, Kristina Heřmanová, Josef Kozák, Jan Jehlička, Mansoor Maitah, Karel Němeček, Jan Vopravil, Daniel Toth, Karel Jacko and Tomáš Herza
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Jaroslava Janků: Department of Soil Science and Soil Protection, Faculty of Agrobiology, Food and Natural Resources, Czech University of Life Sciences Prague, Prague, Czech Republic
Kristina Heřmanová: Department of Soil Science and Soil Protection, Faculty of Agrobiology, Food and Natural Resources, Czech University of Life Sciences Prague, Prague, Czech Republic
Josef Kozák: Department of Soil Science and Soil Protection, Faculty of Agrobiology, Food and Natural Resources, Czech University of Life Sciences Prague, Prague, Czech Republic
Jan Jehlička: Department of Environmental Geosciences, Faculty of Environmental Sciences, Czech University of Life Sciences Prague, Prague, Czech Republic
Mansoor Maitah: Department of Economics, Faculty of Economics and Management, Czech University of Life Sciences Prague, Prague, Czech Republic
Karel Němeček: Department of Soil Science and Soil Protection, Faculty of Agrobiology, Food and Natural Resources, Czech University of Life Sciences Prague, Prague, Czech Republic
Jan Vopravil: Research Institute for Soil and Water Conservation, Prague, Czech Republic
Daniel Toth: Department of Economics, Faculty of Forestry and Wood Sciences, Czech University of Life Sciences Prague, Prague, Czech Republic
Karel Jacko: Agrio ZS, Hovorčovice, Czech Republic
Tomáš Herza: Hydrosoft, Prague, Czech Republic

Soil and Water Research, 2020, vol. 15, issue 4, 258-272

Abstract: Currently, we can see a rapid decline of agricultural land with new uses, especially for construction purposes. This negative trend is evident across Europe, the Czech Republic has the fastest loss of land in the EU. One reason for the significant loss of agricultural land is building industrial zones, which utilises of greenfield areas, and their occupying new areas of agricultural land, often the most the most fertile. The analysis deals with the occupied area (the area of a particular industrial zone), the percentage utilisation of that industrial zone, the number of employees in the industrial zone, and the land quality expressed by means of the agricultural land protection class. The results of the analysis show the low usability of industrial zones, the large occupation of the agricultural land, and the low benefits to the Czech state and Czech citizens. The results also show the poor land use policy in relation to the soil protection. This work is followed by the project Sustainable management of natural resources with an emphasis on non-production and production ability of the soil, the results of which will be included in legislation and be binding for spatial planning.

Keywords: agricultural land management; brownfield; land agriculture protection; land take; land use changes; soil sealing (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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