1st Edition
Communities in Transition: Protected Nature and Local People in Eastern and Central Europe
By Saska Petrova
Copyright 2014
206 Pages
by
Routledge
206 Pages
by
Routledge
206 Pages
by
Routledge
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The role of local people in contemporary nature conservation practices is often poorly understood or neglected. This book, therefore, examines questions of local participation at the nature-society nexus within national parks in the transitional context of Central and Eastern Europe (CEE). The post-1990 reconfiguration of conservation paradigms in this part of the world has re-opened various... Read more
Chapter 1 Introduction; Chapter 2 From Place Attachment to Wilderness; Chapter 3 Protected Areas and National Parks at the Global Scale; Chapter 4 Obstacles, Victims and Opportunists; Chapter 5 Nature Protection and Municipal Government During Socialism and After; Chapter 6 From Inflexible Legislation to Flexible Governance; Chapter 7Šumava; Chapter 8 Conclusions;
Biography
Dr Saska Petrova is a Lecturer in Geography, at the School of Environment, Education and Development at The University of Manchester, UK.
'Central and Eastern Europe now assumes an important place in international nature conservation practice but figures rarely in scholarship. This book makes a significant contribution towards filling this gap by moving from a review of global conservation practice to insightful case studies of co-management in the Czech Republic and Macedonia.' Thomas Sikor, University of East Anglia, UK
