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the interrelation between development, management, and management issues ...
this point, the main task of management was to restore damaged objects
while managing existing tourism. The obligation to create management
plans for protected areas was written into law for the first time with the Law
on Nature Protection of 2003. Management plans determined management
goals and activities, how to reach them, and indicators by which the effi-
ciency of management would be measured. These plans are made for ten-
year periods, with an option to update/replace them after five years, and are
implemented via yearly programmes for protection, preservation, use, and
promotion of protected areas.
The management plan for Plitvice Lakes National Park of 2007 is
among the most important documents in Croatia on this particular stra-
tegic level. The plan consists of a summary of strategic documentation by
which strategic orientation and management goals are to be determined, as
well as individual parts of action plans that go deep into detail regarding
management orientation and management methods to be used in the field.
Based on the aforementioned, four fundamental phases of management of
the area were identified (Fig. 3):
1. the phase of informal management (1883–1948);
2. the phase of management based on spatial plans (1949–1989);
3. the wartime phase—lack of a fundamental management and de-
cision-making body (1990–2002); and
4. the phase of planned management documents (2003–time of
writing).
In order to evaluate the Park’s management, its fundamental goals
should be listed (Plitvice Lakes National Park, 2007):
– preserve the unique karst biological diversity by ensuring that nat-
ural processes remain undisturbed, and ensuring protection to the
area by minimising human impacts;
– cooperation between the local community and the Park’s manage-
ment in terms of planning and implementation on the local level;
and
– ensuring that visitors receive a genuine experience of the natural
riches of the Park.
The fundamental goals for long-term sustainable management of the
Park have been laid out in the management plans, whereby the focus is on
continual preservation of the landscape and its biodiversity, cultural herit-
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this point, the main task of management was to restore damaged objects
while managing existing tourism. The obligation to create management
plans for protected areas was written into law for the first time with the Law
on Nature Protection of 2003. Management plans determined management
goals and activities, how to reach them, and indicators by which the effi-
ciency of management would be measured. These plans are made for ten-
year periods, with an option to update/replace them after five years, and are
implemented via yearly programmes for protection, preservation, use, and
promotion of protected areas.
The management plan for Plitvice Lakes National Park of 2007 is
among the most important documents in Croatia on this particular stra-
tegic level. The plan consists of a summary of strategic documentation by
which strategic orientation and management goals are to be determined, as
well as individual parts of action plans that go deep into detail regarding
management orientation and management methods to be used in the field.
Based on the aforementioned, four fundamental phases of management of
the area were identified (Fig. 3):
1. the phase of informal management (1883–1948);
2. the phase of management based on spatial plans (1949–1989);
3. the wartime phase—lack of a fundamental management and de-
cision-making body (1990–2002); and
4. the phase of planned management documents (2003–time of
writing).
In order to evaluate the Park’s management, its fundamental goals
should be listed (Plitvice Lakes National Park, 2007):
– preserve the unique karst biological diversity by ensuring that nat-
ural processes remain undisturbed, and ensuring protection to the
area by minimising human impacts;
– cooperation between the local community and the Park’s manage-
ment in terms of planning and implementation on the local level;
and
– ensuring that visitors receive a genuine experience of the natural
riches of the Park.
The fundamental goals for long-term sustainable management of the
Park have been laid out in the management plans, whereby the focus is on
continual preservation of the landscape and its biodiversity, cultural herit-
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