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Title 3rd Natura 2000 Alpine Seminar Online - Steering Committee Meeting
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A drop to make the barrel overflow - Cumulative impacts of
recreational and touristic activities in Natura 2000 sites
Michael Jungmeier, UNESCO Chair "Sustainable Management of Conservation
Areas", Carinthia University of Applied Sciences, Austria
A bottom-up perspective / a top-down perspective
3rd Alpine Natura 2000 Seminar
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Lakeside Science & Technology Park: Habitat M. Jungmeier
Natura 2000: Habitat Desmoulin's whorl snail (Vertigo moulinsiana)
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Urban Natura 2000 site in Alpine Biogeographic Region
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Cumulative impacts of small-scale disturbances
Correlation and function unknown
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Project „City meets Nature“
Measures implemented
• Management plan
• Monitoring of visitor´s activities
• Spatial micro-management
• Adaptation of micro-infrastructure
• Information and ranger service
Questions remain
• How much is too much?
• What are effective and appropriate measures?
• Represented in Natura 2000 „architecture“?
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Break 1 / Discussion 1
3rd Alpine Natura 2000 Seminar
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Alpine and high-alpine areas:
• Large scale extensive use
• Recreational use in overlapping
concentric circles
• Recreation can neither be
controlled nor forbidden
• Need for few focused measures
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Core management strategies and actions
• Manage use levels (redistribute, discourage, or limit use (space, time,
access)
• Modify location of use (concentrate uses, provide facilities, promote
attractive offers)
• Increase resource resistance (impact resistance trails)
• Modify visitor behavior (provide constant information / interpretation)
• Close and rehabilitate the resource (e.g. unnecessary trail segments)
• Source: Marion, J.M., 2016: A Review and Synthesis of Recreation Ecology Research Supporting
Carrying Capacity and Visitor Use Management Decisionmaking http://dx.doi.org/10.5849/jof.15-062
• Classic: Federation of Nature and National Parks of Europe, 1993: Loving them to Death? Europarc-
Library.
• Further: Bednar-Friedl B. et al., 2011: Optimal Dynamic Control of Visitors and Endangered Species in a
National Park, DOI.10.1007/s10640-011-9515-5. // IUCN/WCPA, 2018: Tourism and visitor management
in protected areas, https://portals.iucn.org/library/sites/library/files/documents/PAG-027-En.pdf // Cole
D.N., 2019: The Relationship between Amount of Visitor Use and Environmental Impacts.
https://visitorusemanagement.nps.gov/Content/documents/Contributing%20Paper_Environmental%20Imp
acts_Visitor%20Capacity_Edition%201.pdf
Title Title Potential measures (decision tree)
Measures need
• to adress concrete
problems
• to be acceptable and
understandable
• to be based on
evidence
• to be explained to
relevant stakeholders
• to be monitored and
evaluated
Source: IUCN/WCPA, 2018
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UNESCO-Biosphere Reserve Nockberge / Austria • Carinthian part of the BR Salzburger Lungau & Kärntner Nockberge
• Size: 48.800 ha; core zone: 7.750 ha, buffer zone: 10.700 ha
• Core zone is Natura 2000
• Cumulative patterns of different outdoor sports
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Elusive patterns of disturbances • Different sport activities
• Different intensities
• Analysis of conflicts
Source: BR Nockberge
Sorry, low resolution of maps is intended.
Summer sport, acitivities cumulated Winter sport, activities cumulated
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Geographical analysis of conflicts and problems • Technical exercise
• Involvement of stakeholders (data collection, interpretation, measures)
• Consistant communication
Source: BR Nockberge
Sorry, low resolution of maps is intended.
Habitats of Black Grouse (Lyrurus tetrix) A 409 Rock Ptarmigan (Lagopus muta) A 408
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New challenges and perspectives
• Reacting to pop-up routes (social media)
• De-sexifying iconic places („instagram-tourism“)
• New tools for visitor information systems (VAR)
• Visitor monitoring systems and technologies
• Integration into Natura 2000 conceptions
• Research on cumulative micro-impacts
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• UNESCO Chair: www.cuas.at/unesco-chair
• Master: „Management of Conservation Areas“: www.cuas.at/mca
• European Parks Academy: www.e-c-o.at/trainings
• Michael Jungmeier: [email protected]
Title Discussion, questions, perspectives?
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