Managing Protected Areas in Central and Eastern Europe Under Climate Change
Registro en:
9783658208011
10.1007/978-94-007-7960-0
Autor
Rannow, Sven
Neubert, Marco
Institución
Resumen
The idea to investigate the impacts of climate change on nature protection sites
supported by a remote sensing-based monitoring tool – inspired by Lovejoy and
Hannah’s book Climate Change and Biodiversity – was the starting point of the
project “Adaptive Management of Climate-Induced Changes of Habitat Diversity
in Protected Areas” (HABIT-CHANGE). This first idea was further developed and
extended during several meetings with a growing number of interested partners.
After two years of preparation, the project proposal was submitted to the European
transnational funding programme INTERREG IV B Central Europe and later on
approved for a three-year runtime. We chose this funding opportunity since climate
change does not stop at national borders and the programme supports science-
practice-policy cooperation and implementation, which is especially needed for
this topic. Since the Central European area is expected to be especially affected by
climate change impacts, it is an appropriate investigation region. Furthermore,
by choosing European investigation areas it was possible to evaluate the concept
and regulations of the EU Habitats Directive – the most important pillar of
European wildlife and nature conservation that forms a network of protected sites
across the European Union called Natura 2000.