1173 | 310 | The ecosystem services and their conflicts in study area of lowland river Small Danube

Ecosystems provide a variety of utility values, benefits, and other necessary services for human life, such as climate and water circle regulation, soil preservation, and cultural value. These benefits and utility functions have recently been labeled as ecosystem services. At the same time, and despite all of these benefits, ecosystems are constantly endangered by human activity, lack adequate protection, and are regularly degraded and destroyed._x000D_
The aim of this paper is to present methods for reconciling the natural values of the research area, as well as to evaluate the ecosystem service potential – using the concept of the geosystem approach to the landscape. The mutual harmonisation of two landscape subsystems – natural and socio-economic – is a decisive aspect of this approach. This requires detailed research on landscape in all of its core dimensions (social, economic, and environmental), as well as the exploration of links and relationships between them. As a result, we proposed eco-stabilization management approaches._x000D_
The results of the assessment of ecosystem services in the research region may be used as background, arguments, and criteria for planning ecologically appropriate landscape and natural resource organization, management, and protection._x000D_
The methodological approaches were tested on a model region of Rye Island, Middle Europe’s largest drinking water reservoir. Despite intense farming and urbanization, there are still fragments of high-value natural landscapes. The clear objective of society is to find the most effective technique to protect high-quality water supplies while also utilizing bio-productivity of extremely precious soil, and to maintain a high-quality environment for the human population._x000D_

Viktoria Miklosova
Institute of Landscape Ecology of Slovak Academy of Sciences

ID Abstract: 310

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