The Centre for Water, Soil and Landscape was established in the summer of 2018 at the Czech University of Life Sciences Prague and consists of individual, closely cooperating expert teams that map the full range issues relating to climate change and adaptation thereto. The focus of the centre’s sub-teams begins by predicting climate change and its impact on society, and it also includes the effects of climate change on soil, water sources, individual landscape components (e.g., forest communities, agroecosystems), or on the landscape as a whole, and ends with a proposal for specific comprehensive adaptation or mitigation measures. The basic professional teams of the centre are recruited from CZU, but they also work with a number of other institutions from the Czech Republic (e.g., VÚMOP, VÚV) and from abroad (e.g., Israel, USA, The Netherlands, Germany).
The centre was created in order to combat drought and floods more effectively in the terms of research, education, design and implementation of landscapes adapted to the conditions of climate change. The centre connects relevant CZU workplaces across faculties and is materially connected to important research or design workplaces of a non-academic nature. With regard to expertise, the centre is conceived as multidisciplinary, and the represented disciplines include: climatology, hydrology, pedology, hydropedology, hydromelioration (drainage and irrigation), water management, water treatment, biotechnical landscaping, agriculture, forestry, agroforestry, territorial planning, economic disciplines, IT (information technology), GIS (geographic information systems) and RS (remote sensing), and others.