The intermediate step – interpretations – has the character of applied research and forms the arguments and criteria for the assessment of landscape for its utilisation by humans.
Introduction.- I. Principles and theoretical and methodological basis of landscape-ecological planning.- 1. Change or preservation of landscape structure?.- 2. Ecologisation of landscape management.- 3. Institutional instruments for integrated landscape management in Slovakia.- 4. Landscape as a geosystem.- II. Landscape-ecological planning LANDEP - a tool for the ecologisation of spatial planning processes.- 5. Ecologically optimal spatial organisation, utilisation and protection of the landscape.- 6. The LANDEP methodology.- 7. Conclusion: status, problems and application of the results of LANDEP.