BIOFORUM

BioForum Case Studies

Agricultural Landscapes:

- Agriculture- Biodiversity related conflict in a Natural Regional Park (PNR): A case study in the Marais Poitevin, France. A case study by Didier Alard, University of Rouen, France (Pdf version available).

- The Lizard candidate Special Area of Conservation, Cornwall, UK. A case study by Jeremy Clitherow, English Nature, UK (Pdf version available)

Grasslands:

- UK Grassland management conflicts. A case study by Davy McCracken, SAC, UK (Pdf version available).

- Grazing and Spatial Planning. A case study by Peter Nowicki, CEH/ECNC, The Netherlands (Pdf version available).

- Chalk grassland and vineyard coexistence in the Vosges region (France): A Natura 2000 conflict. A case study by Didier Alard, University of Rouen, France (Pdf version available).

Forest:

- Conflict prevention and management in Estonia. A case study by Urmas Tartes, Estonian Agricultural University (Pdf version available).

- Comparison of state policy stances related to forest conflicts. A case study by Jari Niemela, University of Helsinki and Alan Stevenson, UK Forestry Commission (Pdf version available).

- Landscape ecological planning by non-industrial private forest owners in Finland. A case study by Mikko Kurttila, Finnish Forest Research Institute (Pdf version available).

- Regulating forest uses in areas with landscape and natural values: a case study in Altzo, Spain. A case study by Miren Askasibar (Pdf version available).

Wetlands:

- Lake Baldegg: Conflict Resolution and Lake restoration. A case study by Endre Laczko, University of Basel (Pdf version available).

- The Saimaa ringed seal. A case study by Mika Tonder, Finnish Game and Fisheries Institute (Pdf version available).

- Restoration of Lake Kraenepoel in Belgium. A case study by Steven Declerck, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (Pdf version available).

- Srebana lake Biosphere reserve. A case study by Yordan Uzunov, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences (Pdf version available).

Uplands:

- The Cairngorms National Park in Scotland. A case study by John Forster, Cairngorms' Community Council Group, UK (Pdf version available).

- The Polish Mountain Bill. A case study by Antoni Kuzniar, Institute for Land reclamation and Grassland Farming, Poland (Pdf version available).

- Limits of Acceptable Change in Aonach Mor. A case study by Juliette Young, CEH Banchory, UK (Pdf version available).

Conflict management (all case studies can be accessed in Pdf format by clicking here)

- Large carnivore - human conflict (on example of wolves in Lithuania) . A case study by Linas Balciauskas, Institute of Ecology, Vilnius University, Lithuania

- GMO technology and biodiversity- is there a conflict? A case study by Nesho Chipev, Central Laboratory of Ecology, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia, Bulgaria

- Community Management as Instrument for Biodiversity Conflict Resolution. The Case of Nature Reserve Sur, The Slovak Republic . A case study by Veronika Chobotova & Tatiana Kluvankova-Oravska, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Bratislava, Slovak Republic

- Conflict between two groups trying to manage a conflict in Poland . A case study by Bogdan Jaroszewicz, Bialowieza National Park, Poland

- Nature Conservation and Mountain Communities in Cyprus. A case study by Marina Michaelidou, Ministry of Agriculture, Natural Resources and Environment, Nicosia, Cyprus

- Forest biodiversity conservation in a subalpine ski area . A case study by Luigi Portoghesi , Department of Forest Environment and Resources (DISAFRI), Universita della Tuscia, Viterbo, Italy

- Conflicts between human activities and the conservation of biodiversity: the case study of Rosia Montana, Romania . A case study by Geta Risnoveanu, University of Bucharest, Department of Systems Ecology, Bucharest, Romania

- Avoidance of conflicts - the case of Nedrema wooded meadow with comparative material from Calowanie Swamp . A case study by by Marek Sammul, Estonia Institute of Zoology and Botany, Estonian Agricultural University, Tartu, Estonia; and Hubert Piorkowski, Institute for Land Reclamation and Grassland Farming, IMUZ MRC in Krakow, Poland

- Conflicts between exploitation of water resources and biodiversity protection- the case of Moste hydroelectric power station at Sava River, Slovenia . A case study by Andrej Seliškar, Institute of Biology, Scientific Research Centre of Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Ljubljana, Slovenia

- Considering Biodiversity Conflicts in Agriculture- Protecting Old Domestic Breeds in the Hohenlohe Region, Germany . A case study by Barbara Thierfelder, GoBi Research Project at Humboldt University Berlin

- Small Island of Braila wetland systems . A case study by Mihai Adamescu and Angheluta Vadineanu, University of Bucharest, Department of Systems Ecology, Bucharest, Romania

- Conflict between grey seal conservation and coastal fishing in Finland . A case study by Riku Varjopuro, Finnish Environment Institute, Helsinki, Finland

Spatial Planning (all case studies can be accessed in Pdf format by clicking here)

- EU Transport Systems: The trans-European Transport networks. A case study by Vlada Peneva, Central Laboratory of Ecology, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Bulgaria. Pdf available.

- Ecological principles in Finnish regional and project planning. A case study by Tarja Soderman, Finnish Environment Institute, Helsinki, Finland. Pdf available.

- The Kent method of using ecological rules in spatial planning. A case study by Laurence Tricker, Kent County Council, UK. Pdf available.

- Landscape-ecological plan in system of spatial planning in Slovakia. A case study by Lubos Halada, Institute of Landscape Ecology, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Slovakia. Pdf available.