Concept and the development of the Atlas of Natural Capital of Slovakia coresponds the original and permanent main-stream activity of the Institute Of Landscape Ecology of SAS, which is the transformation of the basic landscape-ecological research to applied works. The starting point for defined task was the re- -definition of the recent research methods and results to achieve a suitable methodical procedure to fullfill the goals of the project supported by EFRD 313011BVY7 with acronym ENVIRO+. The paper presents the author ´s understanding of the terms as natural resurce, potential, nature capital, ecosystem services. The basis for the methodical procedure is the geoecosystem approach to the landscape and its primary, secondary and tertiary structures which are considered as the bearers, and, at the same time the limits for the natural and landscape potential. The substance of the paper is the selection of potentials to be evaluated, as well as the definition of the complex of properties of the landscape structures – as the abiocomplexes, bioclimatic complexes, current landscape structure and socio-economic factors, which play in the proces of the evaluation of potentials the role of determinants.