Zmiany użytkowania ziemi w Polsce w ostatnich dwóch stuleciach

In the presented work author analyzed land use changes in Poland in the period 1815–2008, trying to find historical justification of land transformations and to answer to what extent current land use structure was formed by past processes. Periods of land use structure formation in Poland within last two centuries were related to “classic” historical divisions. Four basic stages were distinguished: first stage covered partition of Poland 1815- 1914, second – interwar period 1918–1939, third–period 1945–1989 and fourth recent times from 1989.