Towards Sustainable Pasture Agrolandscapes: A Landscape-Ecological-Indicative Approach to Environmental Audits and Impact Assessments
Plokhikh R. Shokparova D. Fodor G. Berghauer S. Tóth A. Suymukhanov U. Zhakupova A. Varga I. Zhu K. Dávid L.D.
April 2023MDPI
Sustainability (Switzerland)
2023#15Issue 8
Reliable environmental audits and impact assessments are essential to achieve effective pasture utilization and ensure the production of high-quality livestock products. This study aims to develop an environmental audit and impact assessment method for pasture agrolandscapes to promote sustainable livestock practices, using Central Kazakhstan as a case study. To provide a strong foundation for this research, the study utilized representations of pasture agrolandscapes, landscape-ecological and landscape-indicative approaches, and interactions between environmental audits and impact assessments in Kazakhstan. The authors acknowledge that their understanding of the environmental audit and impact assessment for pasture agrolandscapes is a complex method that requires specific knowledge and information about the landscape environment from users. They note that solving the challenges of national food security and environmentally safe territorial development can be achieved through the development of a private method that uses landscape environment status indicators. Methods similar to this enable the study of geocomplexes and their crucial characteristics, leading to a unique system of reliable indicators for environmental issues. This approach facilitates the creation of a scientifically based plan for optimal regional land use and land management systems regarding pasture agrolandscapes.
central Kazakhstan , environmental audit , geocomplexes , impact assessment , landscape-ecological approach , landscape-indicative approach , pasture agrolandscapes , sustainable livestock practices
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Department of Recreation Geography and Tourism, Al-Farabi Kazakh National University, Almaty, 050040, Kazakhstan
Ferenc Rakoczi II Transcarpathian Hungarian College of Higher Education, Berehove, 90202, Ukraine
Faculty of Social Sciences, Institute of Economics, Eötvös Loránd University, Szombathely, 9700, Hungary
Faculty of Resources and Environmental Science, Hubei University, Wuhan, 430062, China
Faculty of Economics and Business, John von Neumann University, Kecskemét, 6000, Hungary
Institute of Rural Development and Sustainable Economy, Hungarian University of Agriculture and Life Sciences, Gödöllő, 2100, Hungary
Department of Recreation Geography and Tourism
Ferenc Rakoczi II Transcarpathian Hungarian College of Higher Education
Faculty of Social Sciences
Faculty of Resources and Environmental Science
Faculty of Economics and Business
Institute of Rural Development and Sustainable Economy
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