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DOI: 10.11118/978-80-7509-831-3-0248

Prioritization of nature conservation and anthropogenic activities: case of Šumava NP

Tomáš Janík, Dušan Romportl


Sustainable development deals with environmental, societal and economic pillar. Regarding the spatial nature conservation within Central Europe, the environmental pillar has been threatened. Long lasting human pressure on landscape has created cultural landscape with only small fragments of close-to-nature habitats. Šumava National Park plays exceptional role, it is one of the largest protected and forested areas in the region. However, Šumava National Park administration has gone through various periods with different outcomes for its protection. Therefore, we applied prioritization concept to evaluate management of National Park and its zonation. We based it on objective data and statistical approaches. Our results were compared with data of anthropogenic structures and activities as built-up, recreational and developable areas. Somewhere, as we show in the article, problems between conservation priorities and human use of the area arises. By these analyses we stress the problem of sustainability in the most valuable protected natural areas of Central Europe, where also societal and economic interests are eminent.

Keywords: zonation, management, anthropogenic structures, Šumava National Park

pages: 248-251, Published: 2022, online: 2022



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