Ecosystem services in spatial planning – study case of the Wielkopolska National Park, Poland
2012
Raszka, B. | Kasprzak, K.
The notion of ecosystem services as presented by P.R. Ehrlich and A.H. Ehrlich (1981) concerns not only services but also goods which are acquired thanks to the functioning of ecosystems. For ecological economy, the different concepts constitute a foundation for methodological assumptions pertaining, in fact, to determining the subject of research. From the legal perspective, a service is a conduct performed by a debtor whose goal is to fulfil a legal duty to the satisfaction of the creditor. Accepting this definition in the evaluation of the environmental-human relationship, the environmental-human service is based on the following: on giving something (Lat. dare), doing something (facere), not doing (non facere) and bearing something (pati). The identification and evaluation of services are significant reasons supporting nature arguments when making economic decisions, especially in making decisions concerning localization. The goal of this work is to determine, in categories of dare, facere, non facere and pati, the relationships between the natural environment, including ecosystems, and human behaviour in the Wielkopolska National Park in Poland and within its buffer zone boundaries. The Wielkopolska National Park buffer zone areas are currently among the most urbanised areas of Wielkopolska. In many places, this buffer zone is no longer a barrier limiting negative influences of human economy on the national park. Economic rules and administrative boundaries have nothing in common with the ecosystem and landscape boundaries, so it is possible to introduce and perform services for ecosystems of the national park (dare) using a protection plan.
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