Agricultural decline and sustainable development on mountain areas in Greece: Sustainability assessment of future scenarios

Tzanopoulos, Joseph; Kallimanis, Athanasios S.; Bella, Ioanna; Labrianidis, Lois; Sgardelis, Stefanos P.; Pantis, John D.

doi:10.1016/j.landusepol.2010.11.007

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“…Studies show the effects of tourism, transport activities, lumber exploitation, agriculture and animal breeding. Recent studies are predominantly focused on the Alps [29,30], mainly the Swiss Alps [3,[31][32][33], Austrian Alps [7,31] and German Alps [34], the Tatra Mountains (a chain sector of the Carpathians) in Slovakia [35] and Poland [14], the Pyrenées Mountains [6], on the mountain areas of North America [2,[36][37][38] or mountain areas less representative for practicing mountain tourism from countries such as Greece [13], Great Britain [39], Nepal [3,11], Australia [40,41], Nigeria [15] and India [42].…”

Section: Sustainable Development Of Tourism In Mountain Areasmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…It has, however, been proven that excessive development of mountain tourism contributes to environmental degradation and affects biodiversity [12]. Globally, it has been found that individual and disparate measures for sustainable development are not sufficient [13]. The involvement of specialized authorities through legislative measures and a national vision to support sustainable development in mountain areas is essential.…”

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confidence: 99%

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Approaching the Sustainable Development Practices in Mountain Tourism in the Romanian Carpathians

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Abstract:The article aims to identify the degree to which tourism managers who work in Romania in the area of the Carpathian Mountains have implemented sustainable development practices. It also assesses the quantification of their availability to be informed and to apply voluntary tools of sustainable development. Qualitative research based on the method of semi-structured in-depth interviews was conducted, with 34 managers who work in the accommodation units in the Romanian Carpathians. Results show that most managers are concerned with issues linked to sustainable evolution of the accommodation unit they manage. The researchers have noticed a low interest in sustainable evolution negatively correlated with the comfort level of the accommodation unit and competitiveness. Based on these results the authors recommend the adoption of measures that may allow sustainable development, and for the Romanian authorities to encourage the increase in the number of tourism units that can use sustainable management systems. This can be done through accessible rules, development of networks that may offer information about good practices and codes of conduct, as well as the possibility to participate in exchange programs.

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Section: Sustainable Development Of Tourism In Mountain Areasmentioning

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Section: Introductionmentioning

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Approaching the Sustainable Development Practices in Mountain Tourism in the Romanian Carpathians

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“…NA is seen as helpful to assess real world systems in which drivers do not act in isolation, where there might be several different impacts and consequences, and to understand which entities are key in the system [41]. In Tzanopoulos et al [40], NA was used on explorative scenarios in a 25 years perspective, assuming different future agricultural policies on a national level (Greece). The casual relationships between drivers of change, their impacts and performances in relation to sustainability objectives are analysed and NA allows for the identification of critical paths, and entities that control the flows.…”

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Methods for assessing future scenarios from a sustainability perspective

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Future scenarios are often used to address long-term challenges characterised by uncertainty and complexity, as they can help explore different alternative future pathways. Scenarios can therefore be a useful tool to support policy and guide action towards sustainability. But what sustainability aspects are put forward in scenarios and how are they assessed? This paper aims to explore how to assess future scenarios, categorised according to Börjeson et al. (Futures 38:723-739, 2006) i.e. predictive, explorative and normative scenarios. By conducting a literature review and a document analysis, we map tools and methods that are currently used to assess environmental and social sustainability aspects in scenarios. We also draw on experiences from methods for impact assessments of Swedish municipal comprehensive plans, which can be considered as future scenarios. We identify whether some sustainability aspects are less recurrent than others in the reviewed assessments or even left out. We find that there is no single tool that can be used to assess scenarios. Some quantitative tools based on databases may be more suitable for assessing scenarios within a shorter time horizon, whereas qualitative assessment methods might better fit the purpose of long-term transformative scenarios. We also find that assessment frameworks may be useful to guide the assessment, as to what its intended purpose is and which sustainability aspects to include. Finally we discuss whether further assessment tools are needed in order to include a wider array of potential environmental or social consequences of the content of scenarios.

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“…It is very clear that social factors, related to the absence of farm successors, social devaluation of the pastoral profession and the high opportunity cost of labour will certainly limit pastoral farming activities in the future (Tzanopoulos et al 2011);…”

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Past, present and future of pastoralism in Greece

Hadjigeorgiou

2011

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Pastoral farming has been a feature of the Greek scene since antiquity. The geomorphology of the area, climatic conditions and the prevailing systems of agricultural production in lowland regions at any given time have all been conducive to the development and preservation of this productive system, principally of small ruminants, until the present day. In the present paper, a brief review is presented of the pastoralism system in the area of Greece through the millennia, highlighting the variety of driving forces on pastoralism. Importance is stressed on this human activity to the formation of present-day biodiversity. Over the last decades, the pastoralist system has been subjected to pressures for 'modernization' and intensification like the rest of the agricultural sector in Greece and has been influenced by the social demands and constraints imposed on individuals in the farming community by these same modernising processes. Adaptation to modern conditions has been accompanied by rapid contraction of the pastoral system, despite the noteworthy economic role it purportedly has to play in the national economy, not to mention its social role in keeping alive the steadily decaying mountainous and disadvantaged regions, which constitute a considerable proportion of the rural land area of Greece. An attempt is made to foresee the future of this system by examining the dynamics of each component.

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Agricultural decline and sustainable development on mountain areas in Greece: Sustainability assessment of future scenarios

Cited by 59 publications

References 38 publications

Approaching the Sustainable Development Practices in Mountain Tourism in the Romanian Carpathians

Approaching the Sustainable Development Practices in Mountain Tourism in the Romanian Carpathians

Methods for assessing future scenarios from a sustainability perspective

Past, present and future of pastoralism in Greece

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