The Institutional Tools of Integrated Landscape Management in Slovakia for Mitigation of Climate Change and Other Natural Disasters

Miklós, László; Izakovičová, Zita; Offertálerová, Monika; Miklósová, Viktória

doi:10.1515/euco-2017-0037

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“…The newest classification system of natural habitats based on vegetation mapping is a classification system under Natura 2000 European network [57], which is developed in detail in some European countries by creating of national catalogues of natural habitats (in Slovakia, see [68]). Many studies [58][59][60][61][62][63] have analyzed the impact of various environmental variables on plant species in the natural forests of Slovakia, but only 23% of forests in Slovakia are non-managed natural or semi-natural forests. However, most of our understanding of forest vegetation-site relationships in Slovakia comes from studies performed within forest ecosystems that are relatively undisturbed by humans or from investigations into the effects of particular management strategies on a small scale [64,65].…”

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Drivers of the Distribution of Ecological Species Groups in Temperate Deciduous Managed Forests in the Western Carpathian Mountains

Gábor

Beracko

Falťan

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Forests

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Managed broadleaf deciduous forests are an important type of forest vegetation in Central Europe, also in the Western Carpathians. These forests are both economically and environmentally valuable. However, little is known about ecological species groups and the inter-specific associations of dominant species in temperate deciduous managed forests in Central Europe. Since the forest stands are in a managed landscape, they are not consistent with the traditionally recognized and used vegetation associations in the Western Carpathians. For these reasons our research contributes to understanding the consequences of broadleaf deciduous forest management. The aim of this research was the determination of ecological species groups and an investigation into the main environmental drivers, in order to explain the distribution of ecological species groups. The numerical TWINSPAN classification was selected to distribute 146 relevés to the five ecological species groups. Of these, 77 relevés were divided into two groups with Fagus sylvatica dominant, while 63 relevés were Quercus petraea dominant. Carpinus betulus, Tilia cordata and Fraxinus excelsior were dominant in 19 relevés. Constrained Analysis of Principal Components was used to explain the vegetation–environment relationship on three transects in the Male Karpaty Mountains. Altitude, pH, Ca, C, K and Mg were selected as the significant environmental drivers responsible for a large part of the species group variability (31.8%). The main requirement for sustainable forest management is knowledge of the vegetation–environment relationship and this research was focused on gaining such understanding. This knowledge can be used as a decision support tool for sustainable management in managed deciduous forests.

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Drivers of the Distribution of Ecological Species Groups in Temperate Deciduous Managed Forests in the Western Carpathian Mountains

Gábor

Beracko

Falťan

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Forests

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“…In agreement with the still valid theses of Agenda 21, the main principles of integrated landscape management for scientific, as well as for practical reasons, are defined as follows: (a) management is a ruling device which comprises the chain of planning-organising-controlling, which harmonizes the demands of different sectors with respect to sustainable development; (b) accordingly, integrated management is not a concrete physical activity that is executed, e.g., in watersheds, nature conservation areas, forestry, agriculture, etc. These, of course, may finally lead to the expected effects, but they are just physical, sectorial works, whereas management is policy, which forces the subjects to provide such works [33].…”

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“…According to the content, the legal position, as well as the position in the integrating process, the existing legal tools can be classified into four groups [19,33,34] as follows:…”

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The Integrated Approach to Landscape Management —Experience from Slovakia

Izakovičová¹,

Miklós

Miklósová

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Sustainability

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The integrated approach to landscape management is generally accepted, but its application is not on the desired practical level. Sectoral approaches to decision-making and planning processes still dominate. The presented paper concerns selected aspects of integrated landscape management in Slovakia. This paper reflects the present state of the long-term effort and experiences of the authors in the integration of ecological knowledge in landscape management tools. The basic methodological procedure needed to achieve this goal consists of analysis, mutual comparison, and confrontation of the existing principles and tools used in applied landscape ecology, as well as in legislation and planning practice. The landscape ecological base for the implementation of scientific achievements in landscape management consists of two methods: landscape ecological planning and ecological network planning. These two methods were implemented into the legislation and practice of nature conservation, physical/territorial planning, watershed management, land arrangement projecting, forestry planning, and flood prevention management. Such systematic landscape ecological regulations in planning practice can be considered the basis for sustainable development.

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“…Management is executed in the landscape as a geosystem, which is an integrated system of the space, geo-relief and all other natural, man-influenced and man-made components of the landscape-material resources in certain area-such as the geological base, water, soil geo-relief, biotic components, climate, land-use, man-made objects and non-material socio-economic phenomena in the landscape, and their relationships [29][30][31]55]. Of special importance for evaluating the conflicts of interest in the landscape is the definition of three structures of the landscape according to their genesis, physical matter, possibility to change and their role in the management: -Primary landscape structure (PLS): is a set of material elements of the landscape and their relationships that constitute the original foundation and condition for the other two structures.…”

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“…The methodology and the individual methods have been continually improved, incorporating new techniques, such as GIS, remote sensing and other computer techniques [26][27][28].The aim of this paper is to present the methodology for the assessment of environmental land use conflicts, based on this integrative approach. Since the problems of the conflict of land use in our understanding arise from the mutual relation of all structures and components of the geographical sphere, the object of our assessment is the integrated system of a spatial section of the geosphere-the landscape as a geosystem [29][30][31]. Obviously, this integrated system also includes the elements of the land-cover which are result of the land-use.…”

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Integrative Assessment of Land Use Conflicts

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Changes in land use are reflected primary in changes of land cover, but subsequently cause conflict of interest of sectors and are the main initiation of many environmental problems. The basic tool for sustainable utilization of the landscape is integrated landscape management, which, in our understanding, is the environmentally biased harmonization of tools which regulate the spatial organization and functional utilization of the landscape to avoid the conflicts of interest of sectors. "Integrated" in this case means the systematic assessment of the interests of all relevant sectors from the environmental point of view. The scientific base of this approach is the understanding of the landscape as a geosystem, and, in particular, the proper interpretation of the mutual relations of primary, secondary and tertiary landscape structures and their role in the assessment of the conflicts of interest. This paper presents a theoretical and methodical base for the integrated approach to the assessment of the conflicts of interest of the sectors in the landscape. The theoretical-methodical base was applied to the model territory of the Trnava district (south-west Slovakia). Mutual conflicts of interest of endangering and endangered sectors cause diverse problems, which were ranked in three basic groups as: problems of endangering of the ecological stability of the landscape (including endangering of biodiversity and nature conservation areas); problems of endangering of natural resources (in particular forests, soils, waters); and, problems of endangering the immediate human environment (stress factors in residential and recreational areas). The result is the identification and analysis of the conflicts of interest in the territory and their projection to a map. This research should be followed by implementation of procedures of ecologically optimal spatial organization and utilization of the territory for regular spatial planning processes. of the GMTs are not yet completely known, as many have begun to manifest themselves in recent years. The relationships between individual GMTs raise a large number of questions, and there are still many deficiencies in the knowledge of their impact on the landscape.Several of these environmental global megatrends are initiated by inappropriate land use. According to Food and Agriculture Organization of the Unated Nations (FAO) information, up to 60% of the world's ecosystems are degraded and exploited unsustainably [5]. In the EU, only 17% of habitats and species and 11% of key ecosystems protected by European legislation show a favorable status [4][5][6]. This is despite the adoption of measures in 2001 to combat biodiversity loss. All scenarios of global and regional assessments show that biodiversity loss, degradation of ecosystems and threats to environmental conditions will continue or even accelerate [7]. Human activities, global population growth and changing consumption patterns are key factors responsible for this growing environmental burden, which primarily becomes evident ...

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The Institutional Tools of Integrated Landscape Management in Slovakia for Mitigation of Climate Change and Other Natural Disasters

Cited by 5 publications

References 5 publications

Drivers of the Distribution of Ecological Species Groups in Temperate Deciduous Managed Forests in the Western Carpathian Mountains

Drivers of the Distribution of Ecological Species Groups in Temperate Deciduous Managed Forests in the Western Carpathian Mountains

The Integrated Approach to Landscape Management —Experience from Slovakia

Integrative Assessment of Land Use Conflicts

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