We study the politics of water infrastructure through the Large Technical Systems (LTS) literatur... more We study the politics of water infrastructure through the Large Technical Systems (LTS) literature, which examines human agency in the dynamics of complex sociotechnical systems. We take into account the transnational turn in LTS-studies in the past decade. Transnational analysis is about the mutual shaping of the international, national, and local. Accordingly, we look at how key system builders –historical agents envisioning and working on the entire sociotechnical system –identified and negotiated international, national, regional, and local politics through the design process. We do this for the intriguing case of the Danube-Oder-Elbe Canal, the so-called 'missing link' between the North, Baltic, and Black Seas, with a design history spanning wildly diverging paradigms of political rule – from imperialism to fascism, communism, and 'EU-ropeanism'.
ABSTRACT JANÁČ, J., JELEČEK, L., CHROMÝ, P. (2010): LUCC in East Central and Southeast Europe pos... more ABSTRACT JANÁČ, J., JELEČEK, L., CHROMÝ, P. (2010): LUCC in East Central and Southeast Europe post-communist countries from 1960s to the end of the 20th century and its historic-geographical roots. AUC Geographica, 45, 2, s. 19–30. ISSN 0300-5402 – This article assesses and compares Land Use changes in eastern regions of Europe: East Central Europe (ECE) and South East Europe (SEE). This part of the continent has to a certain extent common historical experience: multinational empires, ethic nationalism, peripheral position to markets and the communist experiment within 1940s-1980s. All these developments, complemented by specific environmental characteristics, different from each other, have affected the evolution of Land Use structure over the last fifty years. Considerable differences in LU structure of SEE and ECE had existed undoubtedly already in pre-war period. Here we try to on the basis of FAO LU database reveal how geographical and historical contexts shaped Land Use structural changes in both regions and led to important distinctions.
We study the politics of water infrastructure through the Large Technical Systems (LTS) literatur... more We study the politics of water infrastructure through the Large Technical Systems (LTS) literature, which examines human agency in the dynamics of complex sociotechnical systems. We take into account the transnational turn in LTS-studies in the past decade. Transnational analysis is about the mutual shaping of the international, national, and local. Accordingly, we look at how key system builders –historical agents envisioning and working on the entire sociotechnical system –identified and negotiated international, national, regional, and local politics through the design process. We do this for the intriguing case of the Danube-Oder-Elbe Canal, the so-called 'missing link' between the North, Baltic, and Black Seas, with a design history spanning wildly diverging paradigms of political rule – from imperialism to fascism, communism, and 'EU-ropeanism'.
ABSTRACT JANÁČ, J., JELEČEK, L., CHROMÝ, P. (2010): LUCC in East Central and Southeast Europe pos... more ABSTRACT JANÁČ, J., JELEČEK, L., CHROMÝ, P. (2010): LUCC in East Central and Southeast Europe post-communist countries from 1960s to the end of the 20th century and its historic-geographical roots. AUC Geographica, 45, 2, s. 19–30. ISSN 0300-5402 – This article assesses and compares Land Use changes in eastern regions of Europe: East Central Europe (ECE) and South East Europe (SEE). This part of the continent has to a certain extent common historical experience: multinational empires, ethic nationalism, peripheral position to markets and the communist experiment within 1940s-1980s. All these developments, complemented by specific environmental characteristics, different from each other, have affected the evolution of Land Use structure over the last fifty years. Considerable differences in LU structure of SEE and ECE had existed undoubtedly already in pre-war period. Here we try to on the basis of FAO LU database reveal how geographical and historical contexts shaped Land Use structural changes in both regions and led to important distinctions.
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