Nature conservation in remote rural areas: a win-win situation?

Kliimask, Jaak; Järv, Henri; Sepp, Kalev; Ward, Raymond D.

doi:10.1007/978-3-658-03931-8_17

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“…The strength and objectives of protection status vary greatly, ranging from limited to strictly protected areas depending on designation. Estonian national parks and nature reserves are divided into one or several strict nature reserves, conservation zones and limited management zones (Kliimask et al, 2014). The current study focuses on limited management zones, where most forestry, agricultural and construction activities occur.…”

Section: Overview Of Governance and Management Of Protected Areas In mentioning

confidence: 99%

“…There are 70 settlements within the national park, with a total of ~3600 residents according to the population and housing census of 2011 (Statistics Estonia, 2016). The villages are small and several are in danger of becoming abandoned, only a few of them have populations >100 (Kliimask et al, 2014;Kliimask et al, 2015). Based on the management plan currently being formulated, LNP capitalizes on the cooperation between nature, conservation and people -retaining natural and cultural values with the help of its population.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…The rate of population decline is greater than the national average within protected areas in Estonia. In the last decade, the population of Estonia decreased by an annual average of 0.47%, whilst in protected areas, the population has decreased by 1.2% over the same period (Kliimask et al, 2014). At the same time other indicators of protected areas are fairly comparable to those of other similar rural areas (Roose et al, 2010;Sepp, 2011;Kliimask et al, 2015).…”

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confidence: 96%

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Socioeconomic Impacts of Protection Status on Residents of National Parks

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Rural population ageing and decline is a serious problem throughout Europe resulting in a deterioration of the socioeconomic situation in rural areas. This leads to land abandonment, and consequently the loss of valuable cultural landscapes. Protected areas are no exception and inhabitants also face restrictions arising from the protection status. The aim of this study is to identify the existence, extent and nature of the socioeconomic impacts derived from the protection status on the local population. Population and socioeconomic indicators were compared with the results of in-depth interviews with local stakeholders within 2 Estonian national parks and contextualised with recent social change. It was concluded that protected areas have a considerable socioeconomic impact and in order to preserve cultural landscapes, achieve conservation objectives and contribute to balanced regional development, measures must be taken

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“…In the case of protected landscapes, only conservation zones and limited management zones are designated (for further details see Kliimask et al, 2014). When assessing the situation of settlements and the viability of communities as preconditions for preservation of cultural landscapes, it is important to focus on limited management zones 2 as these are where most forestry-, agricultural and construction activities occur.…”

Section: The Republic Of Estonia Nature Protection Act [Looduskaitsesmentioning

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“…2 Conservation zones and reserves are secondary for the present analysis as there is generally no economic activity there -there are only few cases when the protection regime of protected areas prescribes grassland maintenance in limited management zones. 3 The factors in question have been outlined in more detail in Kliimask et al, 2014; only a short summary is presented here. 4 We use the definition of a 30 km commuting zone, derived from research by Novak et al, 2013.…”

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Endangered settlements and protected areas in Estonia: the challenge of maintaining cultural landscapes

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Keywords:This article discusses the conservation of protected areas of Estonia and rural cultural landscapes, in order to provide baseline information for key institutions in protected areas to develop more efficient management policies for cultural landscapes. Based on demographic and settlement analysis of protected areas, we found that present conservation management practices in limited management zones do not guarantee the sustainability of cultural landscapes, as human activity there is practically vanishing. We found that ensuring sustainable human activity, which is the key factor to preservation of cultural landscapes, benefits from the reduction of legal and practical restrictions on human activity in limited management zones. We propose a methodology which can be used to assess the viability of settlements located in protected areas and select endangered settlements (~20% of settlements located in protected areas), where relieving restrictions of nature conservation would be beneficial. Additionally we propose four possible policies for reducing such restrictions.Protected area management, nature conservation, cultural landscapes, natural and cultural heritage, rural development, rural depopulation, settlement viability, community development.

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Nature conservation in remote rural areas: a win-win situation?

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References 8 publications

Socioeconomic Impacts of Protection Status on Residents of National Parks

Socioeconomic Impacts of Protection Status on Residents of National Parks

Endangered settlements and protected areas in Estonia: the challenge of maintaining cultural landscapes

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