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Conservation of protected areas is traditionally seen as a task of governmental bodies, park management or other implemented bodies. Local communities are perceived as a body that should be educated how to live with conservation measures, as many of measures interfere with their daily activities and properties. The third party is visitors whose needs collide quite often with those of...
In its Communication on a forestry strategy for the European Union, the Commission declares that "the overall objective of the EU forestry strategy should be to strengthen sustainable forest development and management as stated in the "Forest Principles" adopted by the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development and as defined in the resolutions adopted at the pan-...
For almost seventy years now Bulgaria develops its protected area system. During the period 1990-1996 the largest Bulgarian parks were declared - Rila, Central Balkan and Strandja, and some of the mountain natural reserves were enlarged. Thus, to the 1.5% of the Bulgarian territory, which was protected at that time, another 3% were added and at present the system covers 4.5% of the country's...
Ghiacciaio del Calderone is the only glacier in the Italian Apennines and the southernmost glacier in Europe in a strong reduction phase. In this paper, the authors present a tentative synthesis of the evolution of the glacier, with a particular focus on evaluating the variations in area and thickness ranging from the end of the Little Ice Age to the present. The analysis was performed in a...
In its Final Declaration the UN Conference on the Environment and Development has emphasized a special position and needs of the "least developed and environmentally most vulnerable countries " (Principle 6, the Rio Declaration on the Environment and Development. In view of this Principle, Chapter 13 was included into the Agenda-2 1: "Managing Fragile Ecosystems: Sustainable...
The European NGO Consultation on Sustainable Mountain Development was carried out by the Regional Agency for the Environment of Midi-Pyrenees, France (ARPE) in collaboration with the International Associated Council for the Protection of the Pyrenees (CIAPP), in the framework of the follow up of chapter 13 of Agenda 21.
The paper summarizes the results of the inquiry by the means...
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