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Reasearch GardenFaculty of Horticulture, Mendel University in Brno
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Slovakia = has 49 036 km² and approximately 5,43 million inhabitans
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The Slavonic countries stretch from the Mediterranean Sea through to the Northern Seas... The Slavs build most of their own castles...on meadows rich in water and bushes...they reside in the most fertile lands, rich in different means of subsistence. They till the soil very intensively to provide themselves with enough food... Famines caused by long-term drought don't exist in [their] lands. On the contrary, famine can break out when it rains too much... If it rains only a little, they do not have poor results, because these lands are damp...
Ibrahim Ibn Jacqub at-Turtushi, About the Western Slavs, middle of the 10th century
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Up to 44,3 % Slovak territory (2,17 million hectare) is woody nowadays and 39,5 % of the landscape (19 350 km²) is covered by arable land.
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Deforestation of land and modernization of agricultural systems are accompanied by an increase in the speed of the runoff of rainwater and water from melting snow in the given areas, as well as the rapid erosion of soil. The real loss of soil through water erosion runs on average
in the forested vegetation of the middle to upper mountain regions at about 0.01-0.03 mm/year,
in permanent grasslands at around 0.06 mm/year, in cereal fields at 1.8 mm/year, on bare ground above the tree line at 3.4 mm/year and in root crop fields up to 3.6 mm/year.
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Ripl (1994) in his ETR model described water as the energy dissipative
cooling, transport and reaction medium
cooling transport reaction
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water as the cooling medium
http://www.vodnaparadigma.sk/
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It is astounding, then, that while scientific publications and conferences emphasize the impacts of global warming on the circulation of water in nature, almost all of them are totally silent on the influence the water cycle has on climatic changes. The fascination with CO2 is so great, though, that it even dominates the relatively small number of scientific articles which are concerned with the relationship between vegetation and the climate… scientists and politicians are orienting their efforts more towards methods of adapting to the "inevitable" negative changes than towards averting them… The old (water) paradigm, which considered water as an eternally renewable resource, has failed, the truth being that water is only a renewable resource as long as the water cycle is functional. A new paradigm is therefore needed which will carefully protect the fragile equilibrium of this water cycle.
(Kravcík et al., 2007), available in: http://www.waterparadigm.org/
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Objectives of the restitution
throught the nature friendly horticultural systems to improve the level of evapotranspiration; to improve soil structure/quality; to reduce soil erosion; to Improve soil ability to retain water in a country
and finally restore short water cycles...
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Thank you for your attention