摘要
The Concept of the National Environmental Monitoring of the Slovak Republic defines the environmental monitoring as a systematic, spatially and temporarily defined observation of precisely defined attributes of the environmental components or influences upon the environment (usually in monitoring network points). To a certain degree of reliability the Concept is able to characterise given areas under study and, to a higher level, a larger region within the Western Carpathians. The National Environmental Monitoring consists of 10 essential systems. One of them is Monitoring of Geological Hazards. It is co-ordinated by the Geological Survey of the Slovak Republic. Thematically it is focused on those geological factors and outputs, which seem to be convenient as the input data for issues of protection of the environment and for optimum utilisation of Slovakia territory geopotentials. The monitoring serves for observations and assessment of the mechanisms of negative changes within the rock environment. Recently, Monitoring of Geological Hazards consists of 13 autonomous subsystems, defined according to different types of the influencing geological process activated by natural or artificial factors.