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The environment's resistance potential is defined as the landscape's ability to reduce the negative effects of pollution, which involves, for instance, reduction of the number of pollutants in the envirnnmental system through accumulation. The size of this potential depends on the properties of those components which can relatively permanently accumulate chemical substances, that is, mainly the properties of the soil cover. The model of environmental changes projected on this basis describes mechanisms and speed with which pollutants are distributed in the soil profile, and the environment's interactions with the functional landscape structure. The methodological assumptions presented here are used to offer a genuine, complex diagnosis of the condition of the environment, to anticipate the consequences of continued anthropopressure and to propose the necessary actions aimed to reduce its ongoing degradation.