Zajączkowski, Dominik2017-09-192017-09-192016Badania Fizjograficzne, Seria A, Tom 67, 2016, s. 331-3462081-6014http://hdl.handle.net/10593/19305Spatial planning and spatial management are only to a small degree based on the knowledge of the benefits provided by the ecosystem in urbanized areas. The analysis in question made it possible to check the validity of the interpretation of the changes in the land cover structure with respect to the benefits provided by the ecosystems. The study contains results of changes in the land use structure in the Białogard municipality between the 1930s and the first decade of the 21st century. The selection of the research area stemmed from the fact that in the town’s administrative territory, various biologically active areas prevail the structure of which was strongly impacted in the period of the analysis. The changes between the various types of biologically active areas and their proportions with respect to the developed areas were examined in detail. For this purpose, an approach was adopted of assigning benefits to the individual land cover forms ranging from 0 (no relevant capacity) to 5 (very high relevant capacity) derived from the Benjamin Burkhard research group (2009, 2012, 2014). The research revealed a range of changes in the land cover structure of Białogard. The most profound changes pertained to the agricultural areas (a considerable decrease in the surface area), forests and the developed area (a high increase). When the surface areas of individual land cover classes was multiplied by their assigned point weights, we obtained results to be used in ecosystem services and to estimate the values of the natural environment of the analysed area. The presented procedure shows the changes in the land cover in a new light and provides new arguments for sustainable spatial management.polinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccesschanges in the land use structureurban planningvaluation of the ecosystem services supplyArtykułhttps://doi.org/10.14746/bfg.2016.7.24