The Landscape Research in the Svratka-River Basin Using Ecosystem Services According to the CICES Methodology

Abstract

This thesis represents one of the possible ways of utilizing the concept of evaluating ecosystem services. It is about connecting this concept with landscape research from the perspective of physical geography. The CICES—Common International Classification of Ecosystem Services methodology from January 2013—has been used for this purpose. It is one of the most advanced methodological systems of evaluation in this field. The modification that the collective of authors has prepared expands this methodology into new areas. The modified methodology allows the expansion of the perception of the influence of the ecosystem’s services on the human population. Unitary humanity has been substituted by individual groups of people who live in the countryside. Another modification is the option of utilizing this methodology when evaluating the impact of planned constructions on the ecosystem services in the construction’s area. It also brings a geographical way of observing the landscape into the method of evaluating ecosystem services—spatiality. Thanks to the thus created method of research it was possible to research the cultural landscape in so far unresearched context, connections and details. The individual results are shown with the help of a table chart method of research which manages to capture information in the needed context. The land cadastre from the municipality of Hluboké in the basin of the river Svratky (Czech Republic), where the author’s research has been conducted, is used as an example for the presentation of this method.