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Title: Carpathian Ecological Network: International Legal Basis and Ukrainian Experience
Authors: Vashchyshyn, Mariya
Keywords: Carpathian Convention
protected area
sustainable development
national and ecological network
Issue Date: 2018
Publisher: Vasyl Stefanyk Precarpatian National University
Citation: Vashchyshyn M. Carpathian Ecological Network: International Legal Basis and Ukrainian Experience / M. Vashchyshyn // Journal of Vasyl Stefanyk Precarpathian National University. - 2018. - Vol. 5. - № 2. - P. 170-177.
Abstract: The article analyzes the importance of the Framework Convention on the Protection and Sustainable Development of the Carpathians of 2003 (Carpathian Convention). Carpathian Convention created favourable conditions for the conservation of landscapes and biological diversity of mountain ecosystems of the Carpathian region. Carpathian Convention is a framework instrument, in other words, it determines the general principles concerning the solution of environmental, social and economic problems of the region. The Protocol on Conservation and Sustainable Use of Biological and Landscape Diversity to the Framework Convention on the Protection and Sustainable Development of the Carpathians has been analyzed. The advantages of international cooperation of the countries of the Carpathian region in achieving a common comprehensive result – conservation of biodiversity and improvement of social and economic level of the region and its inhabitants on the grounds of sustainable development have been defined. Carpathian Convention coordinates the economic needs with the social and environmental protection, promotes the conservation of the unique and authentic cultural and natural heritage of the Carpathian ecoregion for present and future generations. Framework Convention on the Protection and Sustainable Development of the Carpathians provides the creation of the Carpathian ecological network as a type of ecological networks at the sub-regional level, which is a part of the Pan-European ecological network. Ukraine consistently follows the bilateral and multilateral agreements, concluded with neighboring countries, concerning the protection of the environment and is involved in the creation of cross-border elements of the national ecological network.
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/123456789/5166
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