ECOLOGICAL EVALUATION OF THE TERRITORY IN URBAN AGGLOMERATIONS - (AN EXAMPLE OF THE SOLUTION ON THE TERRITORY OF BRATISLAVA)

The aim of the contribution is to explain the procedure of the ecologi cal evaluation of the territory of Bratislava and proposals for the cr eation of ecological balance in specific urban conditions. We characte rize in detail these outputs that express the ecological ''value'' of the natural environment and propose new ecologically stabilizing eleme nts. We have elaborated: interpretation maps expressing the quality of biotic components and present state of the landscape ecological stabi lity, proposal of the ecologically optimum use of agricultural land re serves and proposal of the territorial system of ecological stability. The results of the ecological evaluation were used in the ''Concept o f the ecologically optimum use of the territory of the capital of Slov ak Republic - Bratislava'' (1991). The decision-making process and the selection of ecological alternatives issued from the degree of suitab ility, and/or unsuitability of individual categories of the functional use of the territory, respecting the most important limits. A method was applied, that enabled to determine the carrying capacity with resp ect to chosen activities and their combinations at present and in futu re as well.