Conservation Policies for Protected Areas (Wetlands) in Greece: A Survey of Local Residents' Attitude

Local Reactions Concerning Serbia’s Obedska Bara Nature Reserve

“…This result is in line with most previous studies about protected areas around the world [2,8,11]. However, the positive attitude of respondents toward protection should also be explained by their insufficient knowledge of the protection regime.…”

“…On the basis of the first group of questions, data about the socioeconomic structure of residents were received. These data in some cases correlated with answers in the second set of questions, which was determined on the basis of prior similar studies [2,11] and adapted to local conditions. There were 18 multiple choice questions about the reserve in which respondents could give more answers or an additional answer to some of the questions.…”

“…Natural protected areas are also caught between the competing views of the indigenous people inhabiting them, the dominant social/political classes of the countries where they are located, and the international agencies that promote them. Moreover, the formation of natural protected areas creates debates over whether or not the rights of indigenous people to the natural resources inside them take precedent over the rights of nations in which they are located that are typically more recent [2][3][4][5][6][7]. Due to all these problems and conflicts between local residents and protected areas, numerous studies which have researched the perceptions of local residents, attitudes, awareness, and opinions toward protected areas have been conducted all over the world.…”

“…The study of the attitude of local residents regarding the ways of management and exploitation of the wetlands and their sociological features was carried out in communities neighboring four Ramsar wetlands in northern Greece: Evros, Nestos, Koronia, and Lake Mitrikou [2]. Perceptions and awareness of citizens were studied in the following protected areas in Greece: The National Park of Eastern Macedonia and Thrace, the Wetland of Kalloni, and Lake Tavropou [8].…”

Residents' perception toward protected areas: Carska Bara Special Nature Reserve (Vojvodina, Serbia)

“…A number of studies have been conducted on the impact of protection on the life of the local population in Ramsar areas around the world (Tomićević et al, 2010;Karki, 2013;Bennett & Dearden, 2014;etc.). The study that is the most similar to the research presented in this paper in terms of the subject and tested variables was conducted twenty years ago in northern Greece (Christopoulou & Tsachalidis, 2004). In 1997In -1998, a team of students from the Technological Educational Institute of Drama surveyed the local population of four Ramsar areas, i.e.…”