Current Systems of Protected Areas Integrated with Urban Agglomerations

V A Bezrukikh,O A Kuznetsova,L G Makarova,N A Ligaeva

doi:10.1088/1757-899x/463/4/042055

Abstract

The article considers current systems of national parks and reserves mutually integrated with urbanized territories located in close proximity to cities: the “Stolby” natural reserve near the city of Krasnoyarsk, Krasnoyarsk Territory, Russia, and the Vesuvius National Park, the municipality of Naples, Italy, and gives a characteristic of their geographical position, their relief and stages of its formation, along with the climatic conditions and history of their development. Here the authors regard the role of geomorphological objects as pivotal city-forming dominants in the formation of a human environment and compare aspects of historical and geographical development of the specially protected natural areas with the current state of the studied regions. We implemented the analytical methods based on studying the scientific, historical and cultural sources, and used the materials of field research in 2016-2017. The analysis resulted in conclusions on the influence of geological structures and reliefs on the complex development of the city-forming structures of large urban entities, but with that, legislative programs for integrated environmental development of urbanized areas in connection with the adjacent natural objects are necessary to create a comfortable self-reproducing urban environment

Highlights

The topicality of this research is stipulated by the analysis of the current systems of protected natural objects integrated by large urban agglomerations, namely, the case of “Stolby” natural reserve with the neighbouring territories, Krasnoyarsk, Russia, and the Vesuvius National Park, Naples, Italy
There is irrefutable evidence of destructive and uncontrolled land use, which has led to understanding of the need to integrate residential and natural areas
The entire territory of the natural reserve is divided into three parts with a different regime of protection, with a tourist and excursion area occupying no more than 3% of the reserve which is open for free visits provided that the rules governing the norms of behaviour and attitude in the reserve are observed by tourists

Summary

Introduction

The topicality of this research is stipulated by the analysis of the current systems of protected natural objects integrated by large urban agglomerations, namely, the case of “Stolby” natural reserve with the neighbouring territories, Krasnoyarsk, Russia, and the Vesuvius National Park, Naples, Italy. Under human influence, the natural environment near large settlements undergoes severe structural changes, which, in the recent century, leads to destruction of many natural landscape zones, loss of biodiversity, water and air pollution, depletion of ground vegetation cover and wildlife [14, 20]. The park requires global modernization with a buffer zone included in the complex of public recreational territory with comfortable transport routes of annular and radial type, development of attractive museum and historical complexes, solution of engineering problems for protection population from possible risks of acts of nature

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