The challenge of financing the implementation of Natura 2000 – Empirical evidence from six European Union Member States

Geitzenauer, Maria; Blondet, Marieke; Koning, Jessica de; Ferranti, Francesca; Sotirov, Metodi; Weiss, Gerhard; Winkel, Georg

doi:10.1016/j.forpol.2017.03.008

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“…Many previous studies have shown that national implementation of nature conservation policies differs across the EU [7][8][9][22][23][24][25]. Differences in implementation pathways are related to differences in policy culture in each country and consequently policy integration [14,[26][27][28][29], financing of conservation measures and compensation payments [29][30][31][32][33], management practices [34,35], institutional factors [3,13,23,29,[36][37][38], social factors [3,15,[39][40][41][42][43][44][45], and environmental factors [46,47]. In a recent review of studies related to nature conservation, Popescu, et al [48], and Blicharska, Orlikowska, Roberge and Grodzinska-Jurczak [21], concluded that research related to ecological factors prevail, while social, economic, and policy ones are underrepresented.…”

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Evaluation of the Operational Environment Factors of Nature Conservation Policy Implementation: Cases of Selected EU and Non-EU Countries

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Posavec

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Forests

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The complex policy decision-making situation around nature conservation requires examination of the operational environment. This study develops and tests a three-phase analytical framework for the evaluation of operational environment factors influencing nature conservation policy implementation. The four important operational environment factors (legal, policy, economic, and social) have been identified, to build up a framework. The framework was tested in selected countries and includes experts’ opinions. Experts (n = 44) from five EU countries (Bulgaria, Croatia, Italy, Slovakia, and Slovenia) and four non-EU countries (Bosnia and Herzegovina, North Macedonia, Montenegro, and Serbia) defined and evaluated the factors and sub-factors that affect the operational environment related to nature conservation policy implementation. The results show policy changes arising from the new governance requirements introduced by changed political regime and Europeanization are key driving factors for changes in the nature conservation operational environment. For nature conservation, these wide-reaching changes have led to new political and legal frameworks, new institutional set-ups and multilevel governance frameworks, new establishment of protected areas and Natura 2000 network, and the re-allocation of financial resources and inclusion of non-state actors in policy decision-making. However, there are also some challenges and unsolved problems that need further attention from policy decision-makers and institutions, especially related to the institutional gap, sustainable financing of nature conservation, transposition of the EU Directives into legal systems, designation of sites or improving their implementation, implementation of innovative funding schemes, and a transparent participatory process. This analytical framework can be applied to various problems related to any environmental issues or other policy implementation or management, and other sectors where public decision-making is combined with stakeholders’ engagement.

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Evaluation of the Operational Environment Factors of Nature Conservation Policy Implementation: Cases of Selected EU and Non-EU Countries

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Forests

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“…Although it has been often demonstrated that Natura 2000 sites can provide a range of benefits at local, regional and national level, significantly larger than their implementation costs [19], these benefits often remain unknown and their actual valorization does not allow for the covering of management costs. Given that there is not a "one size fits all" approach to funding Natura 2000 network [20], in this paper we assumed that a PES approach is quite "flexible" for being adapted to different contexts and can effectively contribute to more effective interventions at different spatial and administrative levels in favor of Natura 2000 areas. Three different types of "Capital" are involved in PES: "Economic Capital" including both financial flow and all local economic activities (especially agricultural activities); "Cultural Capital" deriving from national, regional and local regulation, traditional knowledge and social relationships and "Natural Capital" [21].…”

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Can Payments for Ecosystem Services Improve the Management of Natura 2000 Sites? A Contribution to Explore Their Role in Italy

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Pellegrino

2018

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Financing protected areas is crucial for guaranteeing the flow of ecosystem services (ES) provided by natural and semi-natural ecosystems, which are the basis of human well-being. In the last two decades, together with traditional conservation tools, innovative instruments, such as PES (Payment for Ecosystem Services), have been proposed and implemented all over the world in order to improve management effectiveness in biodiversity conservation. In this paper we identified and categorized 33 PES case studies in 19 Natura 2000 sites developing the hypothesis that a PES approach may contribute to improving the effectiveness of conservation actions at different spatial and administrative levels. We found that in these areas, farmers and foresters often allow the maintenance of natural and semi-natural ecosystems through their economic activity. Through PES schemes their important role can be formally acknowledged, both in environmental and economic terms. PES schemes are also a tool for involving more stakeholders, particularly local companies, residents and tourists in conservation actions. So PES can actually improve Natura 2000 sites' management and increase the availability of financial resources in favor of conservation actions. However, careful attention must to be paid to the supporting role of public authorities, generally crucial for the success of a PES.

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“…a national level, taking into account that various stakeholders, both at a local level and in national politics, might not favour sustainable solutions (Blondet et al, 2017;Goodwin, 1998;Jentoft, 2017;Sarvašová et al, 2017;Van Assche, Beunen, & Duineveld, 2016).…”

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“…Local aspects of planning relate to the consultation and/or participation of stakeholders during the plan development. They have local knowledge about the site that is required to develop the plan as well as views on the problems that need to be addressed, the goals that can be achieved and their involvement is important for the acceptability of measures for local owners and users (Blondet et al, 2017;Brescancin et al, 2017;Diez, Etxano, & Garmendia, 2015).…”

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“…The presence of good relationships between actors responsible for the management of the areas is a prerequisite. This is not a situation that can be achieved by a 'one-off' inclusive management planning process undertaken as part of the drafting of the plan; it requires long-term co-operation to establish trusting relationships between involved actors (Blondet et al, 2017). Local organisations or platforms of local actors are best placed to ensure this due to their continued on-the-ground presence.…”

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Managing the Natura 2000 network: between Europeanization and societal engagement

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4. Natura 2000 management plans in France and the Netherlands; carrots, sticks,sermons and different problems 76 4.1 Introduction 77 4.2 Analytical framework 80 4.2.1 Policy instrument theory and Natura 2000 management plans 80 4.2.2 Operationalization of theoretical concept for analysis 4.3 Country and site selection 84 4.4 Results 87 4.5 Discussion 91 4.6 Conclusions 94 5. Societal engagement in Natura 2000 sites. A comparative analysis of the policies in three areas in England, Denmark and Germany. 98 5.1 Introduction 99 5.2 Societal engagement from two perspectives 100 5.3 Analytical framework 102 5.4 Case selection 105 5.5 Results of the area cases 107 5.6 Comparative analysis 112 5.7 Discussion and conclusion 115

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The challenge of financing the implementation of Natura 2000 – Empirical evidence from six European Union Member States

Cited by 24 publications

References 28 publications

Evaluation of the Operational Environment Factors of Nature Conservation Policy Implementation: Cases of Selected EU and Non-EU Countries

Evaluation of the Operational Environment Factors of Nature Conservation Policy Implementation: Cases of Selected EU and Non-EU Countries

Can Payments for Ecosystem Services Improve the Management of Natura 2000 Sites? A Contribution to Explore Their Role in Italy

Managing the Natura 2000 network: between Europeanization and societal engagement

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