Аннотация:One of the modern areas of landscape science is socially oriented (landscape planning,environmental impact assessment, and landscape aesthetics and design). In Russia, however, it has found itself outside of regional policy, the concept, theory, and practice of which do not include landscape planning. Indicatively, the European Landscape Convention, adopted in 2000, has not yet been ratified by the legislativebodies of the Russian Federation. Meanwhile, the landscape ecological ideology of territorial planning makes it possible to develop planning solutions with equal consideration not only of the territory’s own properties but also of its functions in a system of a higher rank. The basic units of such planning are natural landscapeunits. A spatial decision is made after a thorough analysis of the functional significance of the natural territorial complex in terms of preserving the landscape diversity of the region or the country as a whole. A forecast of possible chain reactions between landscape components is carried out. When placing sites and determining their optimal proportions, sizes, configuration, and orientation, lateral connections between geosystems are considered. The regulation of land use in time is based on the forecast of dynamic and evolutionary changes. The diversity of landscape processes and values is taken into account to identify the possibilities for the multifunctional use of landscape elements. Landscape planning can become an effective tool of regional policy, which will smooth out the contradictions among natural restrictions and threats, the need to preserve environmental values, and economic and social interests.
