Ecosystem Services: The Landscape-Ecological Base and Examples

László Miklós, Anna Špinerová, Ingrid Belčáková, Monika Offertálerová and Viktória Miklósová
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László Miklós: Department of Landscape Ecological Syntheses, Institute of Landscape Ecology of Slovak Academy of Sciences, Štefánikova 3, 814 99 Bratislava, Slovakia
Anna Špinerová: UNESCO-Chair for Sustainable Development and Ecological Awareness, Technical University in Zvolen, T.G. Masaryka 24, 960 53 Zvolen, Slovakia
Ingrid Belčáková: UNESCO-Chair for Sustainable Development and Ecological Awareness, Technical University in Zvolen, T.G. Masaryka 24, 960 53 Zvolen, Slovakia
Monika Offertálerová: UNESCO-Chair for Sustainable Development and Ecological Awareness, Technical University in Zvolen, T.G. Masaryka 24, 960 53 Zvolen, Slovakia
Viktória Miklósová: Department of Landscape Ecological Syntheses, Institute of Landscape Ecology of Slovak Academy of Sciences, Štefánikova 3, 814 99 Bratislava, Slovakia

Sustainability, 2020, vol. 12, issue 23, 1-23

Abstract: The major problems of our environment have become mainstream themes in everyday life of the society, with corresponding moral, political, and financial consequences. The concept of ecosystem services (ESS) surely belongs to such mainstream popular topics regarded also by EU environmental strategies. Moreover, the right assessment and utilisation of ESS are without any doubt one of the precondition of sustainable development. In general, we can say that this concept has important influence on the spheres of economics and politics; these formulate demands towards the science, and consecutively, the science efforts to answer these demands. The paper is aimed at two goals: the first one is to zoom in on the landscape-ecological concept of ESS by the geosystem approach, for the correct understanding of the basic terms, such as as ecosystem, geosystem, landscape, utility values, and services. The second goal is to present examples of several types of ESS evaluation in different study areas using the integrated landscape-ecological (geosystem) approach. The methods used are based on the geosystem approach to the landscape; the process is based on the methods of landscape ecological planning. The results are the assessment of 4 types of ecosystem services on study areas.

Keywords: landscape; geosystem; landscape-ecological complexes; utility values (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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