
DOI: 10.11118/978-80-7509-904-4-0224
RECREATION IN CZECH LARGE PROTECTED AREAS: COUNTED AND SORTED
- Tomáš Janík
Protected areas around the world attract people. Due to beautiful nature, landscape and suitable geomorphological conditions, leisure time activities are often concentrated in these areas. It can be in opposite to aims of nature conservation. Therefore, we mapped recreational infrastructure and areas across all Large Protected Areas within Czechia for four periods (1950s, around 1990, 2004–2006, 2016–2020). We included all forms of recreational land-use on the edges of built-up areas and outside of them. During our study period of approximately seventy years (1950–2020), their area and length increased significantly. Now, representation of recreational areas within protected areas varied from 0 to 1 % of whole area. Ski slopes and golf courses are among the biggest new recreational structures; playgrounds and sports fields are almost in each protected areas. Despite the relatively small portion of area, recreation created fragmentation features within the landscape and can generate other anthropogenic activities harmful for biodiversity and nature.
Keywords: recreational areas, recreational infrastructure, national parks, protected landscape areas, Czechia
pages: 224-227, Published: 2023, online: 2023
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