 Effect of land use change on ecosystem services in Lake Balaton CatchmentÁdám Kertész, Loránd Attila Nagy and Boglárka Balázs Land Use Policy, 2019, vol. 80, issue C, 430-438 Abstract: Land Use and Land Cover Changes (LULCC) are interrelated with other global processes like global climate change, population growth, land degradation etc. Land use structure of a given area, region is adapted to the requirements of human society since the appearance of human beings. Land use structure is understood as the proportion of land use types orruring in a given area. The objective of the paper is to analyse land use changes in Lake Balaton catchment, Hungary and to present the role of changes of one ecosystem service, i.e. recreation and tourism by quantitative methods, based on spatial and statistical databases of land use and tourism in Lake Balaton catchment, Hungary between 1990 and 2012. The study area is a frequented touristic region of Hungary with variegated and beautiful landscape mosaics. The lake (595 km2) is exposed to various kinds of environmental impacts including agricultural activities and tourism. For the quantification of the Recreation and Ecotourism Ecosystem Service potential the Multi-Criteria Evaluation (MCE) method was applied. Keywords: Land use change; Sustainability; Ecosystem services; Land degradation; Lake Balaton (search for similar items in EconPapers) Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:eee:lauspo:v:80:y:2019:i:c:p:430-438 DOI: 10.1016/j.landusepol.2018.04.005 Access Statistics for this article Land Use Policy is currently edited by Jaap Zevenbergen More articles in Land Use Policy from Elsevier |
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