DOI: 10.11118/978-80-7509-831-3-0252

Problems and threats related to the recreational use of natural protection areas in cities

Edyta Rosłon-Szeryńska, Mateusz Korbik

The development of cities and suburbanization causes absorption of natural habitats ( protectected and not by low), antropopressure. Despite the EU's biodiversity policy, municipalities are under pressure to make these areas available for tourism and leisure.
According to Cieszewska [2008], areas with significant abiotic and / or biotic values ​​are naturally valuable. These areas are characterized by high biodiversity, therefore they are subject to legal protection under the Act of April 16, 2004 on nature protection (Journal of Laws of 2020, item 55, i.e.) in local and supra-local form.
The aim of the paper is: 1) presentation of problems and threats related to the use of naturally valuable areas, 2) an indication of ways to prevent or limit their degradation. The research area concerns the province Mazovia, the oxbow lake of the Vistula river in the commune of Łomianki.
Despite the implementation of plans / programs for the protection and management of green resources, the areas of nature protection and naturally valuable areas are still exposed to strong anthropopressure.
Research shows that local areas of environment protection should be considered as a functional areas. The tasks of active protection of ecosystems should also be defined in the form of specific solutions for the management and sharing of them. Also, the valuation of ecosystem services in spatial planning will be important.

Keywords: anthropropression to nature protection areas, active nature protection, management of green areas

pages: 252-258, Published: 2022, online: 2022