Heavily contaminated post-industrial areas as potential recreational sites

Abstract

Industrial areas, especially highly urbanized ones, show a shortage of investment areas. In such a context, green areas are sometimes established in the heavily contaminated areas by the mining, chemical and waste management industries. Contaminated areas are not the best places for recreation. The prevalence of such places is increasing, so the pressure to use them is also becoming more common. they are places of constant competition between spontaneous nature and unwanted traces of human activity. Hence the subject of the work is the analysis of the possibility of adapting the PAR (Prediction, Adaptation, Resilience) method in adapting contaminated areas to social use, while maintaining safety conditions and Nature-Based Solutions related to Ecosystem Services. The safe use of contaminated areas must be graded. A completely safe area is not attractive. It is important for the designer to control land use in such a way that people naturally avoid problematic places. Less save places should be devoted to nature. Man is only one element of the natural system and there is no reason to subordinate the entire system to his comfort. The results of the analyzes create a phenomenological description of features whose meaning for the object can be adapted by the designer to his vision (following the method of Nature modelled scientific doctrine). Knowing the conditions and having an idea, we still need a list of goals to compare and check the rightness of the decisions we make. Recognition of human needs and goals as one of many components of the system provides significant synergies at the end of the transformation process. It is possible that such coexistence determines our survival.