The Use of the Protected Area Zlate Piesky in Accordance with The Sustainable Development of a Territorial System of Ecological Stability

Abstract

The work presents the application of the principles of the Water Framework Directive (WFD) for protected recreational areas, including water for swimming. The application of the principles is demonstrated on a specific landscape-architectural case study about the utilization of the lake Zlaté Piesky for recreation. The landscape-architectural concept shows an optimal profile and organisation of the area that will simultaneously coordinate the diversity of the land use. Emphasis is placed on a balanced relation between natural and civilization elements and it creates a recreational area of supra-regional importance. The proposed solution should ensure that the requirements for a high quality recreation would be completed. At the same time, the sustainability requirements of the territorial ecological stability system are respected. The paper also refers to the criteria for the landscape-ecological importance. The content of the work is a complex revitalization of the site focused on the creation of the ecosystem conditions targeting a different groups of organisms (e. g. aquatic birds, aquatic animals). Local biocentres act as interacting and ecologically stable areas. Biocentres strengthen the ecological functions and wider background for the symbiosis of natural communities and their optimal use by humans. It is necessary to find the most efficient and most efficient use of the water surface that must result from the real assessment of a wide spectrum of the often contradictory factors of recreation and the ecosystem of the aquatic and terrestrial area of the water surface. This is an approach with the basic principles of water use and management respecting the Water Framework Directive. Therefore, the work does not only present the urban study itself but also addresses the problematic issues with regard to the Water Framework Directive. The model area, where the research of the application of the principles of the Water Framework Directive was implemented, is a recreation area called Zlaté Piesky in Bratislava in Slovakia. The centre of a recreational interest in this area is a freshwater lake with a gravel bottom. The bottom is covered on some places with muddy sediment. The fauna contains higher macrophytes covering almost all the surface of the lake. This area has been selected as appropriate for the research because individual principles of the WFD could be applied there.