Abstract
The contribution is focused on the assessment of the current state of use of the landscape potential of the Poľana Biosphere Reserve and the specification of the basic landscape-ecological problems associated with the inappropriate use of the potential. In this area, we have singled out the following: problems of biodiversity and ecological stability threats, caused by stress factors linked to the inappropriate use of the landscape’s potential and its elements with high ecological-stabilizing functions (forests, water bodies, meadows, pastures or public greenery); problems of natural resource endangerment – resulting from improper human use of natural resources; problems threatening the human society’s environment, arising from stress factors linked to socioeconomic activities impacting humans and their surroundings; and problems threatening biocultural landscape values, arising from inappropriate landscape management, which endangers rare landscape types. The assessment subsequently resulted in a proposal for basic measures to eliminate the specified problems and a proposal ensuring sustainable utilization of landscape potential Poľana Biosphere Reserve. The methodological procedure based on an integrated approach after some modification can also be used in other biosphere reserves.