Participatory Planning for Biodiversity Protection in the Western Balkans

Radoje Laušević; Mirjana Bartula

doi:10.3375/043.036.0315

We can help you reset your password using the email address linked to your BioOne Complete account.

For additional assistance, contact our Help Desk, helpdesk@bioone.org

Registered users receive a variety of benefits including the ability to customize email alerts, create favorite journals list, and save searches. Please note that a BioOne web account does not automatically grant access to full-text content. An institutional or society member subscription is required to view non-Open Access content. Contact helpdesk@bioone.org with any questions.

All Fields are Required

First Name

Last/Family Name

Password

Password Requirements: Minimum 8 characters, must include as least one uppercase, one lowercase letter, and one number or permitted symbol Valid Symbols for password:
~ Tilde
! Exclamation Mark
@ At sign
$ Dollar sign
^ Caret
( Opening Parenthesis
) Closing Parenthesis
_ Underscore
. Period

Confirm Password

Web Account created successfully

Radoje Laušević,^1,* Mirjana Bartula^1,**,***

¹1Faculty of Applied Ecology FUTURA University Singidunum Požeška 83a 11000 Belgrade Serbia

^*Radoje Lausevic holds a PhD in hydrobiology from the University of Belgrade, where he was teaching in General Hydrobiology as an Assistant Professor from 1996 to 2006. He is currently an Associated Professor at University Singidunum, Faculty of Applied Ecology in Belgrade (Serbia), and Deputy Executive Director for Environmental Policy in the Regional Environmental Center in Hungary (www.rec.org). He has 25 years of diverse work experience, including project design, development, implementation, and evaluation in the environmental field.
^** Corresponding author: mirjana.bartula@futura.edu.rs; +381 63 8801 572
^***Ms. Mirjana Bartula is an educated biologist and works with University Singidunum, Faculty of Applied Ecology in Belgrade. She is a specialist in protected area management and integrated natural resources management with more than 15 years of experience.

Abstract

The rich Western Balkans biodiversity and ecosystem services suffer from negative anthropogenic activities. Solving those problems requires a coherent strategy for biodiversity conservation with a focus on the involvement of relevant stakeholders. This paper presents a Local Biodiversity Action Plan (LBAP) as a tool for biodiversity protection and conservation on a local level in five countries of the Western Balkans. Results indicate that the LBAP improved local planning practices and secured stakeholder involvement by adequate stakeholder analysis and well defined incentives in the form of probiodiversity business (PBB). LBAP also enabled municipalities to assess biodiversity potential on their territory, and to develop a comprehensive planning document and biodiversity protection action plan.

Citation Download Citation

Radoje Laušević and Mirjana Bartula "Participatory Planning for Biodiversity Protection in the Western Balkans," Natural Areas Journal 36(3), 339-344, (1 July 2016). https://doi.org/10.3375/043.036.0315

Published: 1 July 2016

You currently do not have any folders to save your paper to! Create a new folder below.