The term landscape implies a functional integration of rock, regolith, landforms, climate, hydrocycle, soil cover and biocenoses, land use, human population/settlement, production, transport and leisure in cultural landscape. Socioeconomic geography includes landscape perception, planning, decision-making processes, management/information systems, spatial diffusion, location/allocation, adjustment, and organizational development. The central task of landscape ecology is how to harmonize nature conservation and socioeconomic development.