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The State of the Art of Use of the Concept of Ecosystem Services within Spatial Plans in the Czech Republic

Jiří Schneider and Hana Kubíčková
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Jiří Schneider: Department of Environmentalistics and Natural Resources, Faculty of Regional Development and International Studies, Mendel University, 61300 Brno, Czech Republic
Hana Kubíčková: Department of Landscape Management, Faculty of Forestry and Wood Technology, Mendel University, 61300 Brno, Czech Republic

Sustainability, 2020, vol. 12, issue 21, 1-17

Abstract: Although the use and management of ecosystem services (ES) resources and the promotion of their provision are a standard and necessary part of spatial planning tools and documents, a direct implementation of this concept is exceptional. Researchers and entire projects have so far focused mainly on identification of ecosystem services and their resources in urban environment, or on the analysis of their occurrence in spatial planning documents. That was the goal of our research as well. Spatial planning documents, systematically and methodically re-defined using ecosystem services, are what is still lacking. Our article presents the results of the analysis of the use of ecosystem services in spatial plans of five cities, regional centers in the Czech Republic. We used a text evaluation methodology focused on the explicit and implicit expression of ecosystem services. We analyzed the overall approach to the creation of spatial plans. In addition to the spatial plans, we also analyzed their assignments (SPA). We found that the current spatial planning methodology does not work with the ecosystem services approach (ESA) systemically. It focuses mainly on ES resources and implicitly envisages their provision. SPAs are a more flexible and effective tool for enforcing ESA in spatial planning than the lengthy legislative process. However, this presupposes greater knowledge of SPA among the public and decision makers.

Keywords: ecosystem services; spatial planning; urban planning; regional planning; decision support system; sustainable landscape management (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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