Managing Protected Areas in Central and Eastern Europe Under Climate Change
Editors: Rannow, Sven, Neubert, Marco (Eds.)
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- Written in non-technical language for a broad spectrum of readers, the book offers practical lessons for adapting conservation management to climate change
- Case studies offer detailed and vivid examples of climate adaptation actions in protected areas
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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.
- Table of contents (20 chapters)
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Natural Heritage at Risk by Climate Change
Pages 3-13
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Climate Change in Central and Eastern Europe
Pages 17-30
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Effects of Climate Change on the Hydrological Cycle in Central and Eastern Europe
Pages 31-43
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Potential Impacts of Climate Change on Protected Habitats
Pages 45-60
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Climate Change Impact Modelling Cascade – Benefits and Limitations for Conservation Management
Pages 63-76
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Table of contents (20 chapters)
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Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- Managing Protected Areas in Central and Eastern Europe Under Climate Change
- Editors
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- Sven Rannow
- Marco Neubert
- Series Title
- Advances in Global Change Research
- Series Volume
- 58
- Copyright
- 2014
- Publisher
- Springer Netherlands
- Copyright Holder
- The Editor(s) (if applicable) and the Author(s)
- eBook ISBN
- 978-94-007-7960-0
- DOI
- 10.1007/978-94-007-7960-0
- Hardcover ISBN
- 978-94-007-7959-4
- Softcover ISBN
- 978-94-024-0302-2
- Series ISSN
- 1574-0919
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- XXV, 308
- Number of Illustrations
- 44 b/w illustrations, 33 illustrations in colour
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