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Contents
Introduction
Land Use Management in the Czech Republic / Jakub Husák-Lukáš Zagata
1. Introduction
2. Land use management in the RRA context
3. Land use changes and processes: the LIA context
4. The study cases
5. Conclusion
Appendix
Land Use Management in Hungary / Ildikó Nagy
1. Introduction
2. Land use management in the RRA context
3. Land use and land changes
4. The case studies
5. Summary
References
Land Use Management in Poland / Krzysztof Gorlach - Paweł Starosta -Andrzej Pilichowski - Tomasz Adamski - Krystyna Dzwonkowska
1. Introduction
2. Land use management in the RRA context
3. Land use changes and processes in the LIAs context
4. The study cases
5. Conclusion
Appendix
Nature Protection and Biodiversity in the Czech Republic / Eva Kučerová - Adéla Ševčíková
1. Introduction
2. Context analysis
3. Case studies
4. Comparative analysis
5. Selected References
Nature Conservation and Biodiversity in Hungary / Boldizsár Megyesi - Imre Kovách
1. Introduction
2. The National Level
3. The case studies
4. Conclusion
References
Appendix
Nature Protection and Biodiversity in Poland / Krzysztof Gorlach - Paweł Starosta - Andrzej Pilichowski - Tomasz Adamski - Krystyna Dzwonkowska
Introduction
Context Analysis: Natural Conditions and Trajectories
Context Analysis: Relevant Institutions/Actors and Changes
Context Analysis: Objectives of national environmental and agricultural policy regarding NCB
Case studies
Comparative Analysis
Conclusions
Introduction
This collection of papers is the first volume of four anthologies which explore the studies of European Union CORASON research project on Czech, Hungarian and Polish countryside. The CORASON project (A cognitive approach to rural sustainable development - the dynamics of expert and lay knowledges) - studies of changes towards sustainable rural development as a means of illuminating the shape and dynamics of European knowledge society. As Technical Annex of the project says: "These range from the scientific, economic, administrative, and managerial to local, practical, and ecological knowledge, traditional repertoires, trial and error or experientially-based discoveries. We further define sustainable development as a knowledge-based set of practices, within which the expert form of knowledge has been dominant, but to which non-expert forms may make a significant contribution. We seek to identify the dynamics of these different forms of knowledge, and their functioning in relation to economy and society, through case studies in 12 different European countries of rural development projects oriented towards increasing sustainability." The CORASON aims to identify different knowledge forms used in rural projects relevant to rural economic development, rural civil society, and the protection of rural nature and associated with this examine the concept of 'sustainability' in the context of rural development, track the emergence of knowledge society across rural Europe and the impact of these on social inclusion/exclusion and inequality and develop an evaluation of the social, cultural and institutional sustainability of these different forms of knowledge.
The 12 participating European countries are Ireland, United Kingdom, Norway, Sweden, Germany, Portugal, Spain, Italy, Greece and from Central Europe the Czech Republic, Hungary and Poland. ( The Czech University of Agriculture Suchdol, Prague, Institute for Political Science, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest and a research consortium of Jagellonian University, Krakow and University of Lodz). In the four volumes we publish working papers on land-use and biodiversity, civil society and demography, food and alternative economic activities, sustainability and innovation in Central European countryside. The editors' approach of giving substantial primary source of studying Central European rurality is maintained in the four anthologies.
This book offers an integrative view on land-use and biodiversity in the tree Central European countries drawing on a diverse spectrum of research and takes a comparative approach, considering the ways in which different countries manage land-use and biodiversity. The papers examine national data and more intensively two study areas in each country and provide basic information for comparative exploration of current issues in land-use and biodiversity.
The analyses of present problem of land use and management contains users and knowledge issues, the state of the art analysis with regard to knowledge base for land-use and management and changes of knowledge and practices under the guiding idea of sustainable development. The papers respond questions of evolution of land use management, different types of knowledge combine for rural sustainable development, actors involved in land-use and management in study regions, the characteristic and combinations of different types of knowledge and experience that illustrate land-use management. The reports are structured around three key themes as land use management, rural actors, knowledge forms and dynamics...