Visual pollution in natural and landscape protected areas: Case studies from Poland and Slovakia

Szczepańska Magdalena (), Wilkaniec Agnieszka and Škamlová Lucia
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Szczepańska Magdalena: Faculty of Socio-Economic Geography and Spatial Management, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań, Poland
Wilkaniec Agnieszka: Department of Landscape Architecture, Faculty of Horticulture and Landscape Architecture, Poznań University of Life Sciences, Poznań, Poland
Škamlová Lucia: Department of Economic and Social Geography, Demography and Territorial Development, Faculty of Natural Sciences, Comenius University, Bratislava, Slovakia

Quaestiones Geographicae, 2019, vol. 38, issue 4, 133-149

Abstract: The phenomenon of outdoor advertising is particularly worrying in protected areas due to the limitation and depreciation of natural and landscape assets. The paper aims to identify and compare legal provisions concerning the advertising policy in relation to naturally and visually precious areas in Poland and Slovakia. Moreover, it determines the scale of visual pollution in a protected area – trends in the location, size, form and influence on the surroundings and perception. In both analysed countries there are regulations that would not bring the desired effects regarding the advertising policy. Advertisement devices are present in settlements and at significant road points, entrances to facilities connected with tourism. A point of concern is that they are frequently placed in the most precious landscape areas.

Keywords: environmental and landscape protection; landscape architecture and planning; landscape and national park; outdoor advertising; visual pollution (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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DOI: 10.2478/quageo-2019-0041

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