Nature Conservation in Europe Approaches and Lessons

About this book

European ecosystems and species remain under pressure from intensive agriculture and forestry, fishing, pollution, urban sprawl, invasive species and climate change. This book provides a detailed description and critical analysis of nature conservation responses, achievements and failures, motivated by the concerning state of nature and missed biodiversity targets. It summarises Europe's nature and the impact of human activities, and then gives an overview of relevant international biodiversity treaties and the EU nature conservation policy and legislative framework. The core of the book comprises chapters written by national experts, which cover the UK and twenty-five EU Member States, providing comparative case studies from which valuable lessons are drawn. Covering wide-ranging topics such as biodiversity pressures, legislation and governance, biodiversity strategies, species protection, protected areas, habitat management, and funding, this book is of interest to a wide audience, including academics and professionals involved in nature conservation and related environmental fields.

Contents

1. Introduction: aims, scope, structure and key information sources / Graham Tucker
2. Europe's nature and conservation needs / Graham Tucker
3. The international drivers of nature conservation, their objectives and impacts on nature conservation policies and actions in Europe / David Stroud, Euan Dunn, Wyn Jones and Graham Tucker
4. Nature conservation policy, legislation and funding in the EU / Graham Tucker, Kaley Hart, Andrew Farmer, Euan Dunn and David Baldock
5. Conclusions, lessons learnt and implications for the future / Graham Tucker
6. Austria / Wolfgang Suske and Kathrin Horvath
7. Belgium / Els Martens and Jorge Ventocilla
8. Republic of Bulgaria / Boris Barov
9. Republic of Croatia / Jasminka Radovic
10. Cyprus / Clairie Papazoglou and Andreas Demetropoulos
11. The Czech Republic / Petr Roth
12. Denmark / Anette Petersen and Jan Woollhead
13. Estonia / Aleksei Lotman and Silvia Lotman
14. Finland / Heikki Toivonen and Olli Ojala
15. France / Pierre Commenville
16. Germany / Eick von Ruschkowski
17. Greece / Ioli Christopoulou
18. Hungary / Katalin Sipos
19. Ireland / Andrew Jackson and Anja Murray
20. Italy / Elisa Cardarelli, Barbara Calaciura, Daniela Zaghi and Giuseppe Bogliani
21. Latvia / Otars Opermanis, Ilona Mendzina, Ainars Aunins and Inga Racinska
22. Lithuania / Ruta Baškyte and Žygimantas Obelevicius
23. The Netherlands / Erik Gerritsen
24. Poland / Pawel Pawlaczyk
25. Portugal / Ana Guimarães Ferreira and Domingos Leitão
26. Romania / Erika Stanciu, Ioan-Cristian Ioja, Mariana Tintarean and Mihai Pop
27. Slovakia / Viera Šefferová Stanová and Rastislav Rybanic
28. Slovenia / Peter Skoberne
29. Spain / Concha Olmeda and Juan Carlos Blanco
30. Sweden / Mats O. G. Eriksson and Mia Pantzar
31. United Kingdom / Graham Tucker, Wyn Jones, Susan Davies and Joan Edwards

Appendix
Index

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Biography

Graham Tucker is an ecologist and a leading authority on European nature conservation policy and has a particular interest in its achievements and failures. He has gained insights on these issues from thirty-four years of professional experience, including at Birdlife International and, more recently, at the Institute for European Environmental Policy, where he was Head of the Biodiversity Programme. This is his third book focussing on European nature conservation. He is now an independent consultant and proprietor of Nature Conservation Consulting.


Contributors:
- Graham Tucker
- David Stroud
- Euan Dunn
- Wyn Jones
- Kaley Hart
- Andrew Farmer
- David Baldock
- Wolfgang Suske
- Kathrin Horvath
- Els Martens
- Jorge Ventocilla
- Boris Barov
- Jasminka Radovic
- Clairie Papazoglou
- Andreas Demetropoulos
- Petr Roth
- Anette Petersen
- Jan Woollhead
- Aleksei Lotman
- Silvia Lotman
- Heikki Toivonen
- Olli Ojala
- Pierre Commenville
- Eick von Ruschkowski
- Ioli Christopoulou
- Katalin Sipos
- Andrew Jackson
- Anja Murray
- Elisa Cardarelli
- Barbara Calaciura
- Daniela Zaghi Giuseppe Bogliani
- Otars Opermanis
- Ilona Mendzina
- Ainars Aunins
- Inga Racinska
- Ruta Baškyte
- Žygimantas Obelevicius
- Erik Gerritsen
- Pawel Pawlaczyk
- Ana Guimarães Ferreira
- Domingos Leitão
- Erika Stanciu
- Ioan-Cristian Ioja
- Mariana Tintarean
- Mihai Pop
- Viera Šefferová Stanová
- Rastislav Rybanic
- Peter Skoberne
- Concha Olmeda
- Juan Carlos Blanco
- Mats O. G. Eriksson
- Mia Pantzar