The presented research aimed to formulate the recommendations for optimizing the ecological landscape and spatial conditions of the geographic areas in the context of climate change at the northeastern slope of the Lesser Caucasus, Azerbaijan. The detailed analysis determined that the Republic of Azerbaijan as a whole is an ecologically unstable territory. However, the territory of the Gazakh-Tovuz economic region is among the ecologically moderately stable territories. The territories of the Gazakh and Shamkir regions are ecologically unstable territories, and the territories of Agstafa, Tovuz, and Gadabay Rayon received classification as moderately stable territories ecologically. Overall, the research also identified that the cultivated areas showed characteristics of small holdings. The resulting investigations contain some proposals for promoting soil consolidation of the cultivated areas.
Climate change, landscape, landscape planning, ecological stability coefficient, anthropogenic load, small contours, soil consolidation
The ecological landscape and spatial conditions of the northeastern slope geocomplexes of the Lesser Caucasus, Azerbaijan, have succeeded in their studies. For ecological optimization based on landscape planning, the study made some recommendations.