Integrated planning and management policies for protected areas - a European perspective
Emma Salizzoni & Ingo Mose, Session introduction
Conceiving Protected Areas (PAs) as strongly connected to their context is beneficial if not indispensable for both the surrounding landscape (PAs spreading benefits beyond boundaries) and for PAs themselves (PAs tackling important sources of pressure - such as urbanization, tourism or industrial activities - often situated outside their boundaries). Are PAs in Europe actually trying to implement policies that look also at their surroundings? The session aims at investigating this topic with reference to both planning (e.g. integration between PAs planning and regional/urban planning) and management issues (e.g. coordinated management between PAs authority and other authorities).