The mining landscape of the Ostrava-Karviná coalfield: Processes of landscape change from the 1830s to the beginning of the 21st century

The paper is focused on identifying and evaluation of the processes in the cadastral areas forming a large part of the Ostrava-Karviná coalfield in the Czech Republic. Seven basic processes, that reflect the trends in the landscape changes in the area of interest, are traced at three levels: across the entire study area, on the level of three smaller parts of the coalfield, and in more detail on the level of individual cadastral areas. The most...