Assessment of the recreational potential of the forest territory of the Sverdlovsk region

Abstract

The purpose of this study is to present our vision of assessing the recreational potential of the territory (RPT) for its effective management. We suggest using this territory assessment method, which consists of two main stages: assessment of the recreational component of the natural environment and assessment of the necessary amount of investment to use the recreational biodiversity of the territories.The article analyzes the approaches and presents the results of a comprehensive assessment of the recreational potential of the forest lands of the Sverdlovsk region. Created a map ranking the Sverdlovsk region according to the results of research with application for developing a comprehensive assessment of RPT on the methods, developed on the basis of the theory of “games with nature”: the method of structured comparison of RPT on the Hurwitz criterion, aspiring to the maximum and to identify the factors dominating the impact from the application of the Wald criterion. Based on the conducted research on the analysis of the influence of forests on the formation of recreational characteristics, the authors obtained weighted average generalized coefficients of recreational attractiveness of forests of different types in the forest management areas of the Sverdlovsk region and identified 10 forestcadastre areas in the Sverdlovsk region. This paper also presents a developed and tested method for a comprehensive assessment of the recreational potential of forest lands in the territory of the Sverdlovsk region in order to attract investment. Preliminary investment volumes for the development of the Sverdlovsk region’s RPT (based on the cost of forest biodiversity) are presented. We consider the proposed territory ranking to be a necessary indicator for effective management of the subject’s territories.

Assessment of Recreational Potential Dendrological Collections of the Federal Scientific Centre of Agroecology of the Russian Academy of Sciences

“…When solving the problem of choosing methods, criteria and assessment indicators, many authors propose to use a comprehensive strategy for assessing the recreational potential of a territory with component and integral assessment of resources (Moiseev et al, 1990;Musin and Zaripov, 2013;Serikov, 2013;Levandovskaya and Rysin, 2019;Mezenina et al, 2020;Rysin et al, 2020). Using the results of recreational potential assessments to inform spatial planning schemes allows for the development of management measures for urban natural and man-made green areas characterized by increasing year-round use and development encroachment (D'Antonio, 2016;Sinelnikova, 2019).…”