Abstract

Modern nature conservation management must act as an interface between recreation and nature, i.e. nature conservation and its objectives. Therefore visitor management plays a key role. The acceptance and successful implementation of integrated visitor management measures depends on well-founded data on recreation and nature, and an extensive knowledge and understanding of both. This is provided by visitor monitoring, which today combines methods of data collection as well as computer-based processes like data modelling, statistical analysis and spatial analysis (using, e.g., databases and Geographical Information Systems, GIS). For protected area management the integration of different methods helps to identify possible impact of land use on nature and supports decision making. For European mountain protected areas, the application of diverse methods is of special importance: Regions like the Alps, the Carpathian Mountains, and the Balkan Mountains on the one hand side are essential destinations for recreation, on the other hand side they are regions, nature conservation activities focus on. But how does integration of management and monitoring as well as the combination of methods occur in practice? This chapter gives an example on handling winter recreation and wildlife protection in the Alpine Berchtesgaden National Park (Germany).

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