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Managing Protected Areas in Central and Eastern Europe Under Climate Change (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2014)
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Managing Protected Areas in Central and Eastern Europe Under Climate Change (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2014)
Series: Advances in Global Change Research, 58
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Beginning with an overview of data and concepts developed in
the EU-project HABIT-CHANGE, this book addresses the need for
sharing knowledge and experience in the field of biodiversity
conservation and climate change. There is an urgent need to build
capacity in protected areas to monitor, assess, manage and report
the effects of climate change and their interaction with other
pressures. The contributors identify barriers to the adaptation of
conservation management, such as the mismatch between planning
reality and the decision context at site level. Short and vivid
descriptions of case studies, drawn from investigation areas all
over Central and Eastern Europe, illustrate both the local impacts
of climate change and their consequences for future management.
These focus on ecosystems most vulnerable to changes in climatic
conditions, including alpine areas, wetlands, forests, lowland
grasslands and coastal areas. The case studies demonstrate the
application of adaptation strategies in protected areas like
National Parks, Biosphere Reserves and Natural Parks, and reflect
the potential benefits as well as existing obstacles. A general
section provides the necessary background information on climate
trends and their effects on abiotic and biotic components. Often,
the parties to policy change and conservation management, including
managers, land users and stakeholders, lack both expertise and
incentives to undertake adaptation activities. The authors
recognise that achieving the needed changes in behavior – habit
– is as much a social learning process as a matter of
science-based procedure. They describe the implementation of
modeling, impact assessment and monitoring of climate conditions,
and show how the results can support efforts to increase
stakeholder involvement in local adaptation strategies. The book
concludes by pointing out the need for more work to communicate the
cross-sectoral nature of biodiversity protection, the value of
well-informed planning in the long-term process of adaptation, the
definition of acceptable change, and the motivational value of
exchanging experience and examples of good practice.
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