PROTECTED AREAS IN ROMANIA – REGIONAL BENCHMARKS

Corina Dinculescu ()
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Corina Dinculescu: Institute of Agricultural Economics, Romanian Academy, Bucharest

Agricultural Economics and Rural Development, 2021, vol. 18, issue 2, 241-252

Abstract: The main objectives of EU biodiversity policy – stopping biodiversity loss by the year 2020, strengthening the NATURA 2000 network (protected areas) and compensating for biodiversity loss, i.e. “stopping global environmental degradation” – have become objectives of national interest for Romania. Over time, certain areas have been designated as protected areas, in order to protect the most important values of biological (threatened species or human communities) and geological biodiversity, as well as exceptional cultural and spiritual values, thus becoming fundamental elements in the development of national and international biodiversity conservation and protection strategies. As any strategy must be based on the analysis of data available at a given moment, this paper aims to point out a few significant aspects of protected areas in Romania – temporal evolution of areas and their number, both at national level (without neglecting the European context), as well as at regional level, while ranking the development regions with the most protected areas and their size.

Keywords: Environmental protection; biodiversity; protected areas. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 P48 Q15 Q57 R11 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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