EDUCATION AND RECREATION IN PARKS IN THE CONTEXT OF LANDSCAPE PROTECTION

In the era of globalization, strong urbanization and practically irreversible anthropogenic transformations of the landscape, there is a growing need for recreational areas to serve universal environmental education and promotion of the broader ecological culture. In the landscape architecture of the turn of the 20th and 21st centuries has intensified a specific trend of popularizing ecological knowledge in facilities intended for recreation - both in already existing and planned to establish. In many such places there often occurs the problem of combining conflicting social expectations, ie access to unspoiled nature with simultaneous intensive recreational use of the area. Strong anthropopression is always associated with the degradation of the landscape and natural resources. In order to counteract such phenomena, it is advisable to develop an individual, balanced structure of the program for individual objects/areas - localized and targeted to specific functions, adapted to the expected recreation turnout. In this paper the authors would like to present selected issues of the development of recreation and education program in selected European parks, supported by representative examples of modern solutions in this field (education with recreation achieved through multi -purpose or specialized cubature objects, as well as pieces of equipment having and supportive qualities).