Publication details
Půda v právních vztazích: aktuální otázky
| Title in English | Soil in Legal Relations: Current Issues |
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| Year of publication | 2020 |
| Type | Monograph |
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| Description | The publication focuses on current issues in soil protection. It is divided into four comprehensive interrelated sections. The first part of the publication focuses on the question of the importance of constitutional, respectively international and European legislation, on soil protection. The constitutional level of soil protection seems to be easy to understand because the soil is considered the national natural wealth of every country. In contrast, the question then arises as to why it would be appropriate to regulate at least some aspects of soil protection at an international or European level, and what does brake such regulation. First part of this publication is also devoted to the issue of collecting, registering and updating the information which are or should be available to the state and owners and users of such land about the soil, for effective and informed decision-making. The issues of efficient and sustainable use of the territory of the state concerning the diversity of private and public interests, whose connection within the land is unquestionable, is the subject of the following part of the publication. The authors gradually raise many following questions about how the sustainable use of the state’s territory is ensured, topics about ensuring the building the territory up as planned and considered about the final, although the insufficiently apparent, amount of „living“ soil. Then the question how to balance the protection of property rights to land and last but not least, how to ensure that interventions in the soil environment are to be minimized, in case the intervention is necessary. Part three and four of the publication focus on the well-known fact that the soil degrades, except for building the land up, it loses its productive and non-productive qualities. Efforts to maximize production and profit, regardless of other soil ecosystem linkages, are becoming a significant obstacle to combating climate change. Unsustainable land use leads to land depletion, loss of fertility, reduced production and increased further degradation to achieve the required quantity of production, which has other negative consequences. Therefore, the third part of the publication comprehendssoil as a component of the environment and its functions in the general context of climate change and in the political and legal framework that influences the way it is managed. Subsequently, in the fourth part, the authors deal with the agricultural management itself, whose current form is unsustainable from the long-term point of view. |