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eco.mont vol.13 - special issue 2021
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![]() Valerie Braun is managing editor of eco.mont and project manager of several projects at the Institute for Interdisciplinary Mountain Research Martin Coy is Professor of Applied Geography and Sustainability Studies at the Institute of Geography at Innsbruck University Günter Köck is director of the national research programmes of the Austrian Academy of Sciences ÖAW Arne Arnberger |
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ISSN 2073-106X Print Edition
Journal on Protected Mountain Areas Research and Management 13/special issue
11/2021 online edition Die print-Edition erscheint in der innsbruck university press The journal "eco.mont"; – Journal of protected mountain areas research and management – was published for the first time in June 2009. The journal was founded as a joint initiative of the Alpine Network of Protected Areas (ALPARC), the International Scientific Committee on Research in the Alps (ISCAR), the Austrian Academy of Sciences (ÖAW) and the University of Innsbruck. The journal aims to highlight research on and management issues in protected areas in the Alps without excluding other protected mountain areas in Europe or overseas. Its target audiences are scientists from all related disciplines, managers of protected areas and interested individuals including practitioners, visitors, teachers, etc. The journal presents peer-reviewed articles in English by authors who research protected mountain areas and management issues within these areas. It's published twice a year as a collaboration of the Austrian Academy of Sciences Press – responsible for the e-version – and Innsbruck University Press – responsible for the print version. |
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Eco.mont Vol. 13 special issue 2021, pp. 125-129, 2021/11/23
Journal on Protected Mountain Areas Research and Management
The UNESCO Man and the Biosphere Reserve Collemeluccio-Montedimezzo-Alto Molise was established in 1977 in Molise Region (Central Italy) to safeguard local natural and managed ecosystems in two separate areas administered by two different municipalities. An association of seven small municipalities with various local bodies, the ASSOMAB Alto Molise Consortium, was established in 2006 to expand and zone the Reserve in order to promote innovative and environmentally sustainable approaches to economic and social development, by setting in place a new model of sustainable and integrated management in the area. In the renewal step of 2014, UNESCO agreed the expansion of the old protected areas into a single, larger reserve, to be managed by the Consortium. Today it covers nine Natura 2000 sites, seven of which are included in the European Habitats Directive, and two in the Birds Directive. Local administrators and stakeholders see the Reserve as an opportunity to develop sustainable actions while protecting and enhancing the extraordinary environmental richness, including the remarkable biodiversity. In this paper, the authors discuss the current situation and the socio-economic opportunities in this rural landscape, which is affected by population ageing, outmigration and a diminishing economy, all of which are significant drivers of land-use changes, particularly land abandonment and forest expansion.
Keywords: Collemeluccio-Montedimezzo-Alto Molise, UNESCO, MAB Programme, management