Assessing the Proposed Volume of Recreational Ecosystem Services: A Case Study of Moscow’s Urban Protected Areas

The importance of urban protected areas is increasing all over the world because of urbanization. Protected areas in cities provide many ecosystem services; one of the most important is daily recreation. The study is devoted to the recreational ecosystem services of urban protected areas in Moscow. The article proposes an approach to assess the proposed volume of the recreational ecosystem services on the basis of the recreational development and recreational potential of the protected area. The study takes into account various types of recreation and the corresponding infrastructure facilities.