Acta Univ. Agric. Silvic. Mendelianae Brun. 2014, 62(5), 1095-1102 | DOI: 10.11118/actaun201462051095

Environmental Potential Identification on the Example of the Nízký Jeseník Highlands

Aleš Ruda
Department of Regional Development and Public Administration, Faculty of Regional Development and International Studies, Mendel University in Brno, Zemědělská 1, 613 00 Brno, Czech Republic

Human activities have a variety of impacts on the environment and local communities as well. Many adverse impacts on landscape have appeared for example in context of tourism development which was considered as an environmentally friendly industry for a long time. That is why it is necessary to find out limits to maintain the environment as well as tourism, because as it turns out in status quo it does not work as it should do. Regions with damaged environment lose its value for the quality of living and the landscape is under the uncontrolled load which burdens the environment. On the level of municipality planning it is important to have precise information for decision making. In the scope of this a specific environmental area value (SEAV) was proposed in selected municipalities in the Nízký Jeseník Highlands as an evidence of landscape fragility, were the increasing interest of tourism has risen up. SEAV calculation is based on scoring municipalities within defined criteria reflecting partial landscape attributes. Proposed data set was evaluated according to ranking decision making method.

Keywords: spatial decision making, environmental value specification, GIS

Published: December 2, 2014  Show citation

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Ruda, A. (2014). Environmental Potential Identification on the Example of the Nízký Jeseník Highlands. Acta Universitatis Agriculturae et Silviculturae Mendelianae Brunensis, 62(5), 1095-1102. doi: 10.11118/actaun201462051095
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