Landscapes and Landforms of the Czech Republic

Introduction.- Geology and tectonic development of the Czech Republic.- Climate in the past and present in the Czech Lands (Central European Context).- Long-term geomorphological history of the Czech Republic.- The geomorphological evolution and environmental hazards of the Prague area.- The Bohemian Karst: A condensed record of landscape and living nature evolution.- Brdy Highland: A landscape shaped in the periglacial zone of Quaternary glacials.- Bohemian Forest: landscape and people on the frontier.- Morphology of the youngest little volcanoes in western Bohemian Massif.- The Krusné hory Mountains - the longest mountain range of the Czech Republic.- Elbe Sandstones.- Neovolcanic terrain of the Ceské Stredohorí Mountains.- The Kokorín Area: Sandstone Landforms Controlled by Hydrothermal Ferruginization.- Jizerské hory - an Interplay of Rock Control, Faulting and Inland Glaciation in the Evolution of a Granite Terrain.- Krkonose Mountains: a case study of polygenetic relief.- Bohemian Paradise: Sandstone Landscape in the Foreland of a Major Fault.- Adrspach-Teplice Rocks and Broumov Cliffs - Large Sandstone Rock Cities in the Central Europe.- Zdárské vrchy Highland - geomorphological landscape in the top part of the Bohemian-Moravian Highland with the unique crystalline rocks forms.- The Dyje canyon-like valley: geomorphological landscape of deep valley at the eastern part of marginal slope of the Bohemian Massif.- The Moravian Karst: An interconnection between surface and subsurface natural sceneries.- Region of the Rychlebské hory Mountains - tectonically controlled landforms and unique landscape of granite inselbergs (Sudetic Mountains).- Periglacial landforms of the Hrubý Jeseník Mountains.- Litovelské Pomoraví - landscape around anastomosing river pattern.- The Nízký Jeseník - Highland with Abandoned Deep Mines.- Black land: The mining landscape of the Ostrava-Karviná region.- Poodrí - Landscape of Ponds and a Preserved MeanderingBelt of the Odra River.-

Tomás Pánek received his Doctorate in Physical Geography and Geoecology at the Comenius University in Bratislava, Slovakia in 2008. He has been employed at the University of Ostrava (Faculty of Science, Department of Physical Geography and Geoecology) since 2000. He has reviewed for and published several papers in journals such as Landslides, Geomorphology and Natural Hazards. Jan Hradecký received his Doc. in Physical Geography and Geoecology at the Comenius University in Bratislava, Slovakia in 2009. At the University of Ostrava, Faculty of Science, he has been the head of the Department of Physical Geography and Geoecology since 2011. He has reviewed papers for journals such as Geografiska Annaler, Geografie Moravian Geographical Reports and others. He published several papers in journals such as Landslides, Natural Hazards, Geomorphology and others.