Naslov
Forced Willingness to Protect: protected areas imposed by government over private land

Autori
Golub, Siniša

Vrsta, podvrsta i kategorija rada
Ocjenski radovi, magistarski rad

Fakultet
Department of Geography and Regional Studies

Mjesto
Klagenfurt

Datum
16.10

Godina
2015

Stranica
84

Mentor
Manzano, Carl

Ključne riječi
private land; protected area; landowners; imposition; Croatia

Sažetak
In Croatia, as in number of states throughout the world, central government declares protected areas over public land as well as over private land. Apart from benefits for nature, such protection creates certain relationship between landowners and institutions responsible for direct management of protected areas. The objective of this Study is to examine the issues, both negative and positive, to which protected areas authorities encounters during performance of their management tasks in protected areas imposed by central government over privately owned land. Directors and conservation managers of 8 Croatian protected areas in IUCN categories II and V were interviewed to explore their experience of interaction with private landowners in parks they manage. Through the analysis of management plans, the terms related to private land and actions targeted to private landowners were identified, in order to determine their position and significance in this most important management document. The results of the Study demonstrates certain unique experience of park managers, regardless of the size of the parks they manage or the ratio between public and private land within each park. The list of 13 problematic issues in relationship of landowners toward protected areas and protected areas employees has been derived from research. Those are categorized into 4 categories: legal issues, ecological problems, perceptive issues and demographic and related issues. All protected areas in this study recognized problem of illegal building which is confirmed as common denominator of them all. Relevant positive experience in mutual interactions is also recognized by managers, which confirms that governmentally imposed willingness to protect nature on private land can deliver results. In order to enhance different aspects of cooperation between protected area managers and private landowners, sufficient funds and inovative approach is needed. Model of financing such protection on regional level should be developed in Croatia, like is the case in Austria. It was determined that introducing Cooperation Commitees, as management instrument, makes a great step forward in inclusion of landowners into discussions and decision making processes. Existing management plans are not dealing properly and sufficiently with the fact of private land within parks. Management plans should definitely devote more of its content to the issues and solutions directed to the topic. Only one PA has comprehensive list of 24 activities directed toward landowners and local inhabitants living around protected area. In order to avoid possible negative situations in protected areas that would be declared by government over portions of private land in near future, several recommendations were delivered within this thesis. This Study is pertinent to all near-future situations in which regional subjects would initiate the process of designation of new protected areas in their regions, especially within IUCN V category that comprises the mosaic of private and public land.

Izvorni jezik
Engleski

Znanstvena područja
Geologija

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