Urszula Myga-Piątek- Dr hab. Prof. UŚ
- Professor at University of Silesia in Katowice
Urszula Myga-Piątek
- Dr hab. Prof. UŚ
- Professor at University of Silesia in Katowice
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Introduction
I conduct research in the field of
- theoretical models of landscape transformation
- identification and assessment of current landscapes and landscape classification
- forecasting of landscape changes
- tourism impact on the landscape
- landscape policy and regional development
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This article discusses the significance of geophysical research in the context of historical renewal, emphasizing its contributions to risk assessment, sustainable redevelopment, and non-uniqueness in geophysical interpretation. The geophysical studies were conducted in the surroundings of the Palace of Rzuchów, timing to locate the modern infrastr...
Krajobraz jest przestrzennym odwzorowaniem procesów naturalnych zachodzących w środowisku przyrodniczym oraz dziejowej działalności człowieka. Z uwagi na strefowość, pasowość i astrefowość zjawisk przyrodniczych na Ziemi, a także różny stopień zagospodarowania przez człowieka krajobrazy występują w wielu zróżnicowanych przestrzennie zgrupowaniach l...
This paper presents the possibilities of landscape education using the Landscape Reading Station established in 2023 on the
roof of the Faculty of Natural Sciences at the University of Silesia. The aim is to indicate the possibility of analyzing changes in
the urban landscape as an educational task. The paper shows the methods presented on two sele...
Rewitalizacja zabytków wpływa znacząco na kształtowanie atrakcyjności turystycznej terenów wiejskich i podmiej-skich. Proces ten przyczynia się do ochrony dziedzictwa kulturowego wspierając równocześnie rozwój lokalny. Odtworzenie historycznych budynków i otaczających je parków wpływa pozytywnie na wizerunek gminy podno-sząc jej walory krajobrazowe...
This article presents a combination of landscape biography and stratigraphy as a method for the visualisation of historical landscape change. The main goal was to analyse the evolution of the cultural landscape of part of the Ogrodzieniec municipality – Podzamcze (Częstochowa Upland, Poland). The evolution of the landscape was reconstructed based o...
The scarcity of Scandinavian rock fragments in glaciogenic deposits and lack of well-preserved glacial accumulation forms make it difficult to determine the maximum extent of the Odranian ice sheet in the area of the Częstochowa Upland, the Woźniki-Wieluń Upland and the Silesian Upland. While the glaciogenic deposits only contain a small admixture...
Establishing national parks should result from a desire to protect natural or near natural landscapes with the lowest degree of anthropogenic transformation. This paper tries to ascertain whether national parks in Poland protect the most natural landscapes and how far they have been affected by humans. The level of anthropogenic transformation of n...
Jakość życia oraz zrównoważone kształtowanie przestrzeni i krajobrazu odgrywają coraz większą rolę w obecnej polityce przestrzennej (Myga-Piątek, 2010; Salata i Myga-Piątek, 2015), w tym duże znaczenie ma jakość terenów zieleni (Hoffimann, Barros i Ribeiro, 2017). Ważnym elementem tej sfery jest gospodarka o obiegu zamkniętym (GOZ), stanowiąca obec...
With the increase in global tourism, assessment of the negative impact of tourism on various aspects of reality, including the landscape, has become an important issue. One of the symptoms of the negative influence of tourism is the phenomenon of overtourism. This article presents an assessment of the degree of landscape transformation of Utah nati...
Despite the fact that the Fann Mountains are among the most popular tourist destinations in Tajikistan, they are still in the first stage of tourism development. This represents a great opportunity for the implementation of the principles of sustainable tourism, which will avoid the mistakes associated with the uncontrolled tourism development curr...
Cultural landscape stratigraphy is a concept based on geological epoch imaging. It refers to a method of interpretation of the specific arrangement and relations between cultural layers visible in the landscape. The number of layers and their age carry information about the persistence of a given landscape type and structure. For a specific site (r...
Landscape permanence is understood as the temporal extent of the dominance of a given type of landscape, expressed by the temporal continuity of its use. This issue, already being the subject of much research, is important in proper landscape protection and management. In this paper, spatial landscape persistence and persistence of particular lands...
The recent increase in urban areas has stimulated landscape urbanization. One of the ways to study this process is an analysis based on the structure of land cover. The aim of this paper is to assess the intensity of the urban landscape on the basis of the CORINE in the seven largest metropolitan areas in Poland and in the Ruhr Metropolis in German...
A viewshed analysis is of great importance in mountainous areas characterized by high landscape values. The aim of this research was to determine the impact of reforestation occurring on former pasturelands on changes in the viewshed, and to quantify changes in the surface of glades. We combine a horizontal and a vertical approach to landscape anal...
This article proposes a method of the assessment of distribution of tourist facilities. The main aim of presented study is to assess a spatial density of tourist elements. The evaluation of the distribution of tourist facilities in the landscape allows to indicate overloaded areas. The second purpose is the proposition of an indicator measuring the...
This article proposes a method of the assessment of distribution of tourist facilities. The main aim of presented study is to assess a spatial density of tourist elements. The evaluation of the distribution of tourist facilities in the landscape allows to indicate overloaded areas. The second purpose is the proposition of an indicator measuring the...
Host-guest interactions have been widely examined in the literature, and the residents' attitudes have been the object of many studies that focus on identifying factors influencing such behaviour. However, no previous research has examined if the attitudes of residents change with increasing altitude of habitation. The present study examined the re...
Functions of Spatial Policy Tools. The purpose of this monograph is to clarify the formula and scope of selected functions of spatial policy tools at the local level. An attempt was made to interdisciplinary approach to selected issues, to relate them to both noticeable practical solutions and theoretical conclusions. The authors hope that the chap...
Work on landscape diversification resulting from the European Landscape Convention obliges European countries to identify and assess the state of their landscapes. The aim of this article is to test a new method of landscape profiling, enabling measurement of the extent of anthropogenic transformation of a landscape and indication of zones of lands...
Considering the general typology of landscapes, winery landscapes are a subtype of agricultural landscapes. A winery landscape is an area in which the dominant land use or indigenous vegetation consists of extensive grapevine crops, that is, vineyards and/or areas covered by wild grapevines; where a specific wine culture has evolved, or grapes cons...
The programme of identification, cataloguing and evaluation of Polish landscapes, part of the implementation of the European Landscape Convention, has caused an increase in interest in physico-geographical regionalisation over recent years. The commonly accepted regionalisation of Poland developed by J. Kondracki (Kondracki & Richling 1994) is suff...
Landscape changes in the Carpathians are related to centuries of human activity , which can be regarded as the key component of global change. Changes in mountainous regions are mainly caused by agriculture, urbanization, forest cutting for production and land abandonment. This paper aimed to assess the impact of natural and historical-cultural fac...
The study analyses physiogeographical factors of the Zeravshan Range as a basis for environmental and habitat diversity. They provided the background for considering conditions for the functioning of juniper forest ecosystems and their role in maintaining biodiversity especially of of endemic species. The uniqueness of these ecosystems also relies...
The purpose of the paper is to describe the principles of modern landscape policy as a subsystem of Polish and EU spatial policy. Landscape policy consists in the publication of spatial information, organized hierarchically (from the local level, to regional, national, and European). The legal instrument for landscape protection in Poland is landsc...
Following the 2000 European Landscape Convention, a new act strengthening landscape protection instruments has been in force since 2015. It sets forth legal aspects of landscape shaping (Dziennik Ustaw 2015, poz. 774) and introduces landscape audits at the province level. A landscape audit consists in identification and characterization of selected...
Detailed analyses were conducted of human impact on juniper forest landscapes occurring within the Zarafshan Range (Pamir-Alay). Juniperus seravschanica and J. semiglobosa belong to forest-forming species in Central Asia. At present, juniper forests all over Tajikistan are seriously threatened as a result of excessive logging and cattle grazing. Th...
Artykuł porusza aktualny problem nowelizacji i weryfikacji dotychczasowego podziału fizycznogeograficznego Polski, poprzez mikroregionalizację wybranych mezoregionów województwa śląskiego. Podejmowane próby wykonywania mikroregionalizacji są zawiązane z trwającymi pracami nad przygotowaniem audytów krajobrazowych województw. Autorzy diagnozują powo...
Contemporary rural landscapes in Poland are being changed intensively and adversely. These changes lead to landscape disharmony, spatial disorder, the blurring of individual and specific features and disruption to the ecological equilibrium. This article aims to present general rules for the optimization of rural landscapes. It discusses the causes...
Openness and closure, understood as a physiognomic property of landscape, characterises the possibility of observing far out horizons and broad vistas. The degree of openness of landscape can be treated as a synthetic indicator of the evolution of the natural-cultural environment. A change in the degree of openness / closure of landscape is a lengt...
Relacje krajobrazu i turystyki są przedmiotem licznych badań, które coraz częściej zostają podejmowane przez geografów, socjologów i antropologów kultury. Z historycznego punktu widzenia krajobraz w turystce wydaje się być warunkiem nieodłącznym i koniecznym. Krajobraz jest jednocześnie syntetycznym walorem turystycznym, źródłem i tłem pojedynczych...
W systemie badań wielu dyscyplin naukowych – m.in. geografii i, antropologii kulturowej, estetyki,architektury krajobrazu, ekologii krajobrazu, socjologii – krajobraz zajmuje miejsce szczególnie ważne. Jedną z przyczyn szerokiego nim zainteresowania jest to, że jest określeniem (synonimem) bytu codziennego, otoczenia, środowiska. W pracy przedstawi...
TYPOLOGY OF POLAND’S CURRENT LANDSCAPES
This article sets out a proposal for a new typology of the landscapes identifi able in
Poland contemporarily. The ”current” situation relevant to the work is considered to
relate to a period lasting no longer than the last 10 years. The authors undertook the
work in the light of numerous academic discussions...
Celem opracowania jest testowanie metodyki sporządzania audytu krajobrazowego opisanej w Opracowaniu "Identyfikacja i ocena krajobrazów – metodyka oraz główne założenia".
This book presents recent advances in landscape analysis and landscape planning based on selected studies conducted in different parts of Europe. Included are methodological problems and case studies presented and discussed during scientific sessions organized by the Commission of Landscape Analysis and Landscape Planning of the International Geogr...
This paper presents an analysis of the visibility of landscape values
, which are important in terms of tourist attractiveness. The paper focuses on the area of the Silesian Beskid Mountains, which have highly diversified (in terms of structure, functionality and physiognomy) natural and cultural values. Due to its location near large urban agglome...
Laut Europäischer Landschaftskonvention bedeutet „Landschaft“ ein Gebiet, das von Menschen wahrgenommen wird, dessen Charakter das Resultat von Handlungen und Interaktionen der natürlichen und/oder menschlichen Faktoren ist (Artikel 1a). „Landschaftspolitik“ bedeutet die Umsetzung von allgemeinen Grundsätzen, Strategien und Richtlinien durch die zu...
Problematyka ochrony krajobrazu i kulturowego, harmonijnego jego kształtowania, przy jednoczesnym dążeniu do zrównoważonego rozwoju regionalnego, jest bardzo złożona. Zagadnienie to jest szeroko omawiane w różnych kręgach naukowych, a ostatnio także na wielu szczeblach administracji państwowej. Wynika to między innymi z umów stowarzyszeniowych Pols...
http://www.krajobraz.kulturowy.us.edu.pl/publikacje.artykuly/27/4.myga-piatek.pdf
http://www.krajobraz.kulturowy.us.edu.pl/27.wydawnictwa%2027.php
http://www.krajobraz.kulturowy.us.edu.pl/publikacje.artykuly/30/6.ump.pdf
The article presents rules for construction and modeling of landscape data with reference to the INSPIRE Directive. The authors have taken up an attempt to identify the phenomenon of changing the recording methods for spatial elements considered in the methodology of landscap...
This paper presents an analysis of the visibility of landscape values, which are important in terms of tourist attractiveness. The paper focuses on the area of the Silesian Beskid Mountains, which have highly diversified (in terms of structure, functionality and physiognomy) natural and cultural values. Due to its location near large urban agglomer...
![Fig.1. Location of the largest exploitation and post-exploitation [Q]...](publication/273303701/figure/fig1/AS:618267076997121@1524417766188/Location-of-the-largest-exploitation-and-post-exploitation-Q-regions-in-Poland_Q320.jpg)
The current article will attempt to confirm that Polish post-mining areas are characterized by high cognitive and aesthetic values and that they have great geotourism potential, which has been little used so far. Tourism is regarded to be one of the most dynamically growing sectors of the global economy and is a phenomenon that occurs in the landsc...
https://www.profinfo.pl/prawo/samorzad-terytorialny/p,samorzad-terytorialny-czasopismo-poszczegolne-numery,1689.html?_ga=1.161340733.1494426638.1416993856#1
The issues of aesthetic assessment of landscapes has now become important due to the need of rational and balanced cultural landscape management and the implementation of the provisions of the European Landscape Convention. The aim of this article is to show the methodology of the assessment and interpretation of the degree of the current openness...
http://www.krajobraz.kulturowy.us.edu.pl/24.wydawnictwa%2024.php
The road investment stage is always preceded with projects, which relate to multifaceted economic, environmental and spatial analyses. The visual values of the surroundings are usually neglected when designing and building motorways and express roads The authors believe that the increasingly large-space range of motorway construction requires that...
More and more often, post-mining and post-exploitation areas, which have been heavily transformed by man’s economic activities, are no longer a danger to the environment, but they enhance the monotonous urban-industrial landscape of a particular region and are instead its identifying value. Activities regarding the planning of landscape development...
http://www.krajobraz.kulturowy.us.edu.pl/publikacje.artykuly/23/2.myga.pdf
http://www.krajobraz.kulturowy.us.edu.pl/publikacje.artykuly/22.cmentarze/1.myga,%20plit.pdf
For western tourists Japan is a mysterious country. That mystery was further increased by relatively long-lasting political isolationism, which consequently resulted in tourism isolationism. With tragic events – a 9-magnitude earthquake and a resulting gigantic tsunami, reaching 10 meters in height (11.03.2011) in
the background, the author will an...
It is commonly accepted that that landscape management for tourist purposes, according to the idea of sustainable development, is one of the basic priorities of spatial management policy in countries of the European Union. The idea is well established in regulations provided by a number of European documents. These documents emphasize the need for...
The simplest definition of landscape describes it as the physiognomy of the geographical environment. The notion cultural landscape refers to landscape that has been transformed by Man as the result of civilizational development. Cultural landscapes are extremely dynamic and ephemeral systems. Currently, we are witnessing dramatic transformation of...
The article is dedicated to the analysis of evolution of cultural landscapes and their present-day threats. It dis-cusses the factors and stages of transformation of cultural landscapes in relation to natural cycles of changes in the geographical environment in the Holocene. The cultural landscape is dealt with in a comprehensive way as the matrix...
Tourism is becoming a global social phenomenon and its impact on the environment is an increasingly
significant source of anthropopressure. The growth of mass commercial tourism and its impact on all elements of the geosystem not only began causing loss and damage in natural ecosystems, but also resulted in modification of the sociocultural environ...
Abandoned Polish mining areas are commonly heavily transformed so that they endanger no longer the environment. A disadvantage is that the newly created areas commonly contribute to the monotonous urban-industrial landscape, rather than providing additional value. This is partly due to legislation that hampers a more diversified management of aband...
http://www.krajobraz.kulturowy.us.edu.pl/publikacje.artykuly/metody/nita.pdf
The article presents the role post-mining objects and forms play in the diversity of Polish landscape. More and more often, post-mining areas, heavily transformed by human economic activities, are no longer a danger for the environment, but enhance the monotonous urban-industrial landscape of a particular region and are its identifying value instea...
The landscape, in its physical meaning, is created by a combination of abiotic elements of the natural environment (underlying rocks, surface features, soils, the hydrographic network, specific climatic conditions) and biotic ones (vegetation cover and the animal world), as well as influences of anthropogenic processes and formations, which are an...
Streszczenie Artykuł poświecony jest analizie ewolucji krajobrazów kulturowych i ich współczesnym zagroŜeniom. Omawia czynniki i etapy przeobraŜeń krajobrazów kulturowych w nawiązaniu do naturalnych cykli przemian środowiska geograficznego w holocenie. Krajobraz kulturowy traktowany jest w sposób kompleksowy jako matryca (tło) działań człowieka ora...
