MICROSPATIAL PROCESSES AS INDICATORS OF ENVIRONMENTAL DEVELOPMENT: ESSENCE, RELEVANCE

Abstrakt

At a time when the environment is rather unstable, increasingly important are anthropogenic microsites as well as the processes within their boundaries. The above trend indicates the emergence of new relationships in the realm of landscapes, energy, substances, and information. The aim of the article is to investigate the process of anthropogenic microsites formation and to substantiate their relevance as indicators of the environmental development. Materials and methods include the constructive-landscape approach; the principles of comprehensiveness and natural-anthropogenic coexistence; the methods of retrospective, natural analogy, modelling, and geoinformation technology. We define the anthropogenic area as a territory in which anthropogenic processes are developing, resulting in changes in the structural arrangement of respective geographical components and landscape complexes. The diversity of anthropogenic microsites and processes taking place within their boundaries is seen as the result of both economic activities and the pattern structure of landscape complexes underlying the anthropogenic ones. The case study is Middle Pobuzhzhya. Based on it, investigated are the forming and structure of recreational areas nearby the Southern Buh River. With regard to the indicator values of the processes taking place at anthropogenic microsites, considered are the options for involving these distinctive landscape structures in devising projects of sound nature management. The need for further profound research of anthropogenic microsites and their respective processes, boundaries between distinct microsites, and paradynamic interrelationships with the environment are well founded.