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the interrelation between development, management, and management issues ...
sions of economic and socio-cultural or demographic sustainability must
be established.
The aforementioned related dimensions would also have their own
specific sets of developmental goals and systems of oversight and assess-
ment. Accordingly, via solutions for individual impact factors and specific
impacts in a given protected area, an integrated management model can be
created that summarises the best practices and specific management needs,
i.e. management goals, activities, monitoring, and (re)evaluation.
Integration is also understood to include integral management of nat-
ural and cultural heritage, which defines evaluation, research, inventory-
ing, monitoring, protection measures, interpretation and promotion, and
communication and reporting. Whereby, it is vitally important to include
all natural and cultural heritage elements (e.g. geological, geomorpholog-
ical, climatical, hydrological, biological, ethnological, archaeological, and
anthropological elements). Furthermore, as an additional element of in-
tegral management, the importance of connecting protected areas with
neighbouring areas on the regional level (or the international level if the
area in question lies along a state’s border) should be highlighted. In this
way, complete management of a given area is enabled, in terms of both pro-
tection and developmental measures.
Initiatives to establish indicators on the global, national, and local lev-
els indicate that they are necessary preconditions for sustainable develop-
ment, materialisation, measurement, and evaluation of components of the
environment, so that the concept of sustainable development would not
simply become a general definition. It should be stressed that environmen-
tal protection and tourism cannot successfully coexist in an integral man-
agement system that is not based on the following two principles: first, the
principle of meritocracy of different professions and experts; and second,
the principle of continuous improvement of management systems and their
oversight. Therefore, further research of all spatial components as an in-
tegral line, in which the protected area is only one component, is needed.
Conclusion
Development of Plitvice Lakes National Park should be regarded in the con-
text of development that has unfolded over the past 150 years (with sever-
al short periods of discontinuity), 70 of which have been directed by formal
management of some kind. Development throughout the entire timeline
has dominantly been dependent on tourism demand and four fundamen-
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sions of economic and socio-cultural or demographic sustainability must
be established.
The aforementioned related dimensions would also have their own
specific sets of developmental goals and systems of oversight and assess-
ment. Accordingly, via solutions for individual impact factors and specific
impacts in a given protected area, an integrated management model can be
created that summarises the best practices and specific management needs,
i.e. management goals, activities, monitoring, and (re)evaluation.
Integration is also understood to include integral management of nat-
ural and cultural heritage, which defines evaluation, research, inventory-
ing, monitoring, protection measures, interpretation and promotion, and
communication and reporting. Whereby, it is vitally important to include
all natural and cultural heritage elements (e.g. geological, geomorpholog-
ical, climatical, hydrological, biological, ethnological, archaeological, and
anthropological elements). Furthermore, as an additional element of in-
tegral management, the importance of connecting protected areas with
neighbouring areas on the regional level (or the international level if the
area in question lies along a state’s border) should be highlighted. In this
way, complete management of a given area is enabled, in terms of both pro-
tection and developmental measures.
Initiatives to establish indicators on the global, national, and local lev-
els indicate that they are necessary preconditions for sustainable develop-
ment, materialisation, measurement, and evaluation of components of the
environment, so that the concept of sustainable development would not
simply become a general definition. It should be stressed that environmen-
tal protection and tourism cannot successfully coexist in an integral man-
agement system that is not based on the following two principles: first, the
principle of meritocracy of different professions and experts; and second,
the principle of continuous improvement of management systems and their
oversight. Therefore, further research of all spatial components as an in-
tegral line, in which the protected area is only one component, is needed.
Conclusion
Development of Plitvice Lakes National Park should be regarded in the con-
text of development that has unfolded over the past 150 years (with sever-
al short periods of discontinuity), 70 of which have been directed by formal
management of some kind. Development throughout the entire timeline
has dominantly been dependent on tourism demand and four fundamen-
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