出版社：Institute of Landscape Ecology of the Slovak Academy of Sciences
摘要：It is very difficult to capture a multidimensional character of landscape in the scope of one research discipline. New ways of economics thinking represented by ecological and environmental economics try to overcome this limitation. The landscape is no more interpreted as a pure space for economic activity as it is common in classical and neoclassical economics. The aesthetic, qualitative dimension of landscape becomes to be incorporated into the new economic thinking. A new dimension of the landscape is considered in the methods of environmental evaluation - hedonic, travel-costs and contingent evaluation. In spite of this great shift in economic theory, the landscape is still considered a little bit one-dimensional. The qualitative dimension of landscape, expressed in money, starts to play a role in the cost-benefit evaluation. In other words the landscape aesthetic quality became just a new specific type of product for tourist activity. Nevertheless, the enlargement of economic approach seems to be a good promise for future sustainable development.
