APPROACHES TO THE ASSESSMENT OF RECREATIONAL POTENTIAL OF THE LANDSCAPE COMPLEX IN BELARUS CITIES
For the purposes of ecologically substantiated recreational nature management a structure of landscape-recreational complex in some cities of Belarus has been revealed (Vitebsk, Grodno, Minsk, Mogilev), and the share of natural and cultural landscapes in its structure has been shown. The approaches to the assessment of recreational potential have been proposed, which have calculations of recreational capacity of landscape complex territories, definition of their public services and amenities provision and accessibility for recreation use. The algorithm of recreation potential calculation has been proposed, with regard to data on permissible recreation loads on various landscapes. With the use of the proposed approaches an assessment of recreation potential of natural complex of Vitebsk, Grodno, Minsk, Mogilev has been carried out. It has been revealed that at higher share of natural little-transformed landscapes in the structure of a landscape complex their role in the provision of recreational demands of citizens is lower, than at cultural landscapes, what is due to lower resistance to recreational loads. Main trends of the optimization of recreation potential of cities landscapes have been formulated to form a stable landscape-recreational complex able of effective carrying out, along with recreational, environment-forming, environment-protective and nature protective functions in the conditions of high anthropogenic loads; arrangement in the net of objects a commensurable to recreational demand with regard to the specificity of recreation activity, a city development perspective and availability for use; development of infrastructure of recreation territories with minimization of effect on unstable landscape, their maximal diversity preservation.