IPAM-Toolbox: Integrative Protected Area Management in the Alps-Adriatic-Region
The protection of areas and sites is one of the most important instruments of modern, anticipating strategies in nature conservation and planning for sustainable spatial development. Therefore, an enormous increase of number and acreage as well as the number of categories of sites has been registered. The management of these sites has become a challenge for conservation and other sectors, mainly regional planning, since protected area management is related to three dimensions, i.e. the spatial, socio-cultural and economic dimension. Therefore, the planning and managing of protected areas hit very different legal, administrative and technical realities. Besides, the interfaces between regional, national and transnational requirements and solutions must be stringently developed. Within the enlargement process of the EU, different administrative and planning systems should anticipatorily be harmonised in a smooth process.