Monitoring and Assessment of Protected Areas’ Management Capacities in the Republic of Serbia

Nikola Banjac, Rado Maksimović, Katarina Dragaš and Jelena Ivetić
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Nikola Banjac: Assembly of the Autonomous Province of Vojvodina, Novi Sad 21000, Serbia
Rado Maksimović: Faculty of Technical Sciences, University of Novi Sad, Novi Sad 21000, Serbia
Katarina Dragaš: Institute for Nature Conservation of Vojvodina Province, Novi Sad 21000, Serbia
Jelena Ivetić: Faculty of Technical Sciences, University of Novi Sad, Novi Sad 21000, Serbia

Sustainability, 2019, vol. 11, issue 3, 1-17

Abstract: The necessity to measure the effectiveness of the management of protected areas has been widely recognized. This paper aims to show a realistic state of affairs in protected area management in the Republic of Serbia on the basis of the results of managers’ monitoring and their obligations stipulated by law. It will also answer questions on which form of management is optimal, by means of a proposed assessment model. The research has been performed on a sample of 30 sensu stricto protected areas, managed by 21 different managers. For the purpose of ranking and comparing the degree of protected area management effectiveness, the use of a normalized aggregate function (scoring) has been introduced. Results show that about half of the analyzed protected areas have no adequate management in terms of legally prescribed management criteria, as well as that management effectiveness is related to several external factors. The authors conclude that meeting all criteria stipulated by law, and the existence of professional staff represent fundamental factors for the effective management of protected areas.

Keywords: protected areas; nature conservation; management effectiveness; criteria stipulated by law; professional staff; Republic of Serbia (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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