Protected Areas in Azerbaijan: Landscape-Ecological Diversity and Sustainability

Yıl 2019, Cilt: 7 Sayı: 2, 31 - 42, 27.12.2019

Mirnuh İsmayilov Emil Jabrayilov

Öz

Anahtar Kelimeler

Protected areas, national park

Destekleyen Kurum

İnstitute of Geography, Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences

Protected Areas in Azerbaijan: Landscape-Ecological Diversity and Sustainability

Öz

Establishment of protected areas is one of the most important activities
in the conservation of natural resources, biodiversity and gene pools,
including, promoting a healthy lifestyle for people in the world. The concept
of preserving landscape-ecological diversity and sustainable development
promotes the improvement of socio-economic indicators and at the same time
ensuring the protection of the environment and ecosystems. The aim of the paper
is to examine the relationship between landscape-ecological diversity in
protected areas in Azerbaijan and the factors that contribute to this
relationship with sustainable development. The article identifies
landscape-ecological differences, including the principles and development of
protected areas such as National Parks, Nature Reserves and Habitat/Species
Management Areas in Azerbaijan. For the first time, a landscape-ecological
frame model was developed to ensure environmental balance. A medium-scale
digital (1: 600,000) "ecological carcass" map of Azerbaijan has been
developed and its structural elements explored. Currently, only 10% of the
territory of Azerbaijan are protected areas. Given the anthropogenic pressure
on landscapes in Azerbaijan, it has been established that the structure of the
territorial organization of protected areas does not comply with existing
environmental balance norms. To do this, proposals to increase the area of
​​protected sites to 15% of the country's territory were justified. The current
state of use of protected areas in the development of ecotourism has been
considered and evaluated as an element of sustainability. Indicators of tourism
activity in national parks were analyzed on the basis of statistical sources.

Anahtar Kelimeler

Protected areas, national park, nature reserve, landscape, sustainability, ecological carcass, ecotourism

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