Special Issue

For improving visitor infrastructure in the Liberec Region (North Bohemia), the key tourist routes should be improved and restored: the activities have been carried out by municipalities and co-financed from various European Community’s funds/financial mechanisms.

In the České Švýcarsko/Bohemian Switzerland National Park, attendance has been monitored since its designation in 2000. Since 2005, the numbers of entries into the National Park by visitors are systematically monitored through automatic accounting system.

Quiet, non-consumptive camping in connection with hiking is the most environmentally friendly type of tourism.

Dear readers,

At present, actual and expected climate change has been no doubt one of the most debated global problems, may be also because we can contemporarily observe its impacts in various forms immediately around us.

The climate is a long-term characteristic weather regime, determined by the energy balance, atmospheric circulation, active surface characters and, recently, also human beings.

The regional scenario of climate change on the territory of the Czech Republic (Kal­vová & Brázdil 1993) was the starting point for considerations on the effect of global climate change on the vegetation in the Czech Republic.

The carbon cycle is of fundamental importance for the biosphere as it is inseparably connected with the climate, water and nut­rient cycles and the biomass production on the land and in the oceans. It is useful to recall that carbon is one of the most important crossroads of the non-living and living world.

The inhabitants of Europe did not go to bed one evening in the Middle Ages in 1492 to suddenly awaken into the Renaissance the next day; nonetheless, within only a few decades, at the end of the 15^thand beginning of the 16^thcentury, there was a substantial change in attitudes towards God, society, production, trade over large distances, human migration, the development of cities and landscape perception.