Bedeutung und Aufgaben der Landespflege

In the densly populated countries of our time, it is no longer sufficient to understand spatial organization for economic and transport planning only. The topographic region and above all the conservation of nature belonging to it must be part of the spatial organization, complementing it ecologically. The topographic region analysis must precede the spatial organization goal setting. It is in this way only that the conceptions derived from development of population, urban planning, or transport can be adjusted or even founded. The topographic region analysis must be quantified and thus objectified. Then it will be possible to contrast spatial organization data with indices of topographic regions or sub-regions. As it is an important question with many spatial organization decisions how far particular geographical factors such as ground, water, climate, air, vegetation, animal world, landscape and others, can be loaded, the idea of the loading capacity of a topographical region gains a special significance. A model is discussed, to determinate the total loading capacity index of topographic region, and the loading capacity indices of particular geographic factors.