The paper deals with the context of the land cover and some causes of its changes. The most important phenomena of its current development seem to be relations between the human population and landscape environment. In particular, impacts of the territorial division, the (sub)structure of the settlement, demographic conditions, economic activities, land law and territorial-administration relations. The landscape structure is a component part of further (subsequent) circumstances of studying the landscape properties. One of them is the ladscape character as a form of the landscape perception by man. It represents not only physiognomic properties of the landscapes material substance, but it deals also with the geography of the landscape ecology, cultural-historical and cultural-value relations of the landscape. In connection with time, changes and development processes (genesis) it enriches not only our knowledge but mainly our relation to the landscape.