Recreational use and spatial organization of rural regions in terms of new sociological and economic factors

Abstract

Important issues regarding the exploration of aesthetically attractive and recreationally important objects within the boundaries of traditional rural regions are discussed. The usage of the proposed methodological approach to the evaluation of aesthetical and consumer parameters regarding the regional settlement system is demonstrated in the example of rural regions located in Valuysky Municipal District, Belgorod Oblast. Specific features of recreational activities, their unique forms, and coherence between different types of environmental management are determined. Environmental representation coefficients, recreational radiuses, the local residents’ group with the appropriate frequency of recreational activity, and the recreational load are calculated. The necessity and promise of using such studies result in making social, economic, and geoscientific decisions related to the development of the land use planning documents, including recreational complex organization are shown.