Sustainability or sustainable development is presently an
acknowledged 
and often invoked concept and approach to contemporary
deepening 
environmental problems of our planet. Its local or regional
applications 
are frequent call during recent years. This is caused by
relatively 
unsuccessful attempts on its global application. Biosphere
reserves are 
ideal places to study relations between the man and biosphere
according 
to the principles of sustainability and sustainable
development.
The main objective of this dissertation is a proposal of a
strategy 
for sustainability of the Giant Mts. Biosphere Reserve. We
follow an 
environmental approach, which prefers the interests of
environment and 
landscape and its protection and we understand it as a
contribution to 
the debate on sustainable development of the Giant Mts. The
strategy 
deals with selected issues of the area under study on the basis
of 
analysis of relations among tourism and recreation,
environmental 
landscape characteristics, and local population. The closest
attention 
is paid to the impacts of tourism on the landscape and
environment; 
nevertheless, we also deal with influences of the local
population on 
the environment, and of the tourism on the local population.
The strategy of sustainability is preceded by a characteristic
of the 
environmental and socio-cultural identity of the Giant Mts.,
landscape 
ecological spatial differentiation of the area, landscape
typology of 
the Giant Mts., and assessment of the natural carrying capacity
of 
individual landscape spatial units. Besides, we deal with 
sustainability factors, which are tourism, nature and landscape

protection, and local population. In this part of the
dissertation 
we have made use of literature and statistical data review,
field 
landscape ecological research, and general geographical
methods, 
such as landscape ecological mapping, regional taxonomy, and
analysis 
of selected phenomena and characteristics.
The strategy proposed is concerned with the whole area of the
Giant Mts.
on one hand, when more general objectives and measures are
defined. 
Their accomplishment should eliminate crucial environmental
problems. 
On the other hand the strategy deals with individual segments
of 
landscape, which were delimited on the landscape ecological
basis. 
This part of the strategy attempts to respect local conditions
of these 
spatial segments and its objectives and measures are more
concrete.