Open AccessECOLOGICAL APPROACHES OF AGRO-RECREATIONAL LAND USE
Author(s) -
Абдурахман М. Магомедов,
Касум А. Абдулаев
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
ûg rossii: èkologiâ, razvitie
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.224
H-Index - 4
eISSN - 2413-0958
pISSN - 1992-1098
DOI - 10.18470/1992-1098-2018-2-156-164
Subject(s) - recreation , geography , pasture , livestock , land use , tourism , productivity , vegetation (pathology) , population , ecological footprint , agroforestry , ecology , environmental protection , sustainable development , environmental science , forestry , biology , medicine , demography , macroeconomics , archaeology , pathology , sociology , economics
The article discusses the land-use problem of mountain and semi-desert landscapes of Dagestan caused by the need to improve the ecologization of traditional pastures as well as perspective tourism and recreational land use. Aim. A comprehensive geographic study of land use in the republic is crucial for the formation of ecologically sustainable distillation and nomad livestock and tourist-recreational land use on the natural, zonal and high-belt mountain-semi-desert landscapes that are not fully developed and are not suitable for farming. Discussion. Ecological and economic effects are revealed due to the combined use of semi-desert-mountain pastures and tourist-recreational areas represented by the population carryng capacity, the ecologization of pasture land use and a significant increase in the total livestock production. Improved combined interzonal use of lands with different natural rhythms of vegetation development contributes, first of all, to maintaining the equilibrium and integrity of the regional ecological system; secondly, to the ecological orientation of pasture-livestock and tourist-recreational land use; and thirdly, to the restoration and the functioning of the quality of natural semi-desert and mountain pasture lands. Conclusion. Ecological and landscape improvement within mountain pasture land use is proposed on the basis of the ecological and economic efficiency of the annual cycle of high-altitude sheep keeping with the regular change of pasture lands of different productivity levels by different sex and age groups of pastured livestock.