Aspects for Evaluation of the Effect of Natural and Artificial Bodies of Water to Protected Areas’ Landscape
Aspects for Evaluation of the Effect of Natural and Artificial Bodies of Water to Protected Areas’ Landscape

Summary/Abstract: The landscape - how a person usually understands it - is the visible surface of the Earth environmental image. This is a reflection of natural processes and a reflection of cultural change, which constantly changes across time and space. It is the foundation of national identity and is a part of life quality. Understanding, protecting, managing and forming landscape’s identity and concept as an evolving phenomenon at the same time meeting the economic, social, cultural, ecological and aesthetic needs of the public is one of the top priority goals of the state (Bučas, 2001). Landscape as a term is associated with art, history, geography, ecology, politics disciplines and planning and design. The landscape can only be created by natural processes - the natural landscape or landscape, which felt human intervention, is called cultural landscape. Cultural landscape has a plethora of man-made objects - buildings, roads, bridges, quarries and other engineering infrastructure.The novelty of the work: this work extends the knowledge on the Lithuanian state parks’ landscape.The paper first describes bodies of water as a natural and urban element that affects protected areas’ landscape.

• Details
• Contents