HODNOTENIE SCHOPNOSTI PRÍRODNÉHO KAPITÁLU POSKYTOVAŤ KULTÚRNE EKOSYSTÉMOVÉ SLUŽBY V REGIÓNOCH SR
EVALUATION OF THE ABILITY OF NATURAL CAPITAL TO PROVIDE CULTURAL ECOSYSTEM SERVICES IN SLOVAK REGIONS

Author(s): Jarmila Makovníková, Stanislav Kološta, Filip Flaška
Subject(s): Supranational / Global Economy, Sociology of Culture, Environmental interactions, Tourism
Published by: Masarykova univerzita nakladatelství
Keywords: ecosystem services; assessment; evaluation; recreation and tourism; potential;
Summary/Abstract: Recreation and tourism, as an important category of cultural ecosystem services, is an important part of the economy and, in addition to economic importance, also contributes to improving the quality of life, overall wellbeing and education. The assessment and evaluation of recreation and tourism is important in the case of both managed and natural ecosystems. The aim of the paper is to provide an alternative view of the assessment and evaluation of the potential of cultural ecosystem services with a focus on the category of recreation and tourism in four model regions of the Slovak Republic with diverse natural and geographical characteristics. In evaluating we used the cartographic layer of ecosystems in model regions and a modified matrix of ecosystem services. The results in the chosen regions indicated that the terrain fragmentation in combination with higher altitude and a larger area of forests and protected areas may represent significant factors influencing the area's potential to provide various benefits from recreation and tourism within cultural ecosystem services. The relationship between the logical assumption that the higher monetary potential for recreation and tourism within the cultural ecosystem services is represented in the region, the more intensively it is used, e.g. in the form of a larger number of visitors or overnight stays, has not been shown.

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