Spatial Requirements of Outdoor Sports in the Nature Park Southern Blackforest - GIS-based Conflict Analysis and Solutions for Visitor Flow Management

The fascination of outdoor-sports has been growing in recent years. The affected areas offer numerous experiences of nature and activity in which the image of an exclusive outdoor lifestyle plays an important role. A continuous differentiation of classic outdoor sports into various new types of outdoor sports, including a very specific use of the natural landscape structure, is characteristic for this growth. From an ecological point of view, this increasing use of landscape related to space and time, offers severe problems for the affected areas. Especially the multiple all-year of landscape bears a high ecological risk. The increasing pressure on nature and cultural landscape evokes numerous conflicts between protection and use of nature and landscape. Nevertheless, all outdoor sports activities have one thing in common: They depend on an intact natural landscape that offers the basis for an exclusive experience connected to outdoor sports activities. The aim of the project is to analyse the differentiation of classic types of outdoor sports and the resulting utilisation of the specific types of landscape and area. The requirements for the area are defined from a sport scientific prospective and are judged from an ecological point of view. There are two important dimensions for the use of space through outdoor sports: Apart from the sole requirement of space, it is also very important to consider the time of use of the specific area. The multiple use of specific areas is often a crucial point.