Abstract
The paper analyzes the laws related to the management of protected areas, i.e., determining the meaning of the content and characteristics of the texts of the laws regarding management, in order to identify possible identities, absences or contradictions in meaning. The aim of this research is to find out the nature of the legislation related to the management of protected areas, on the basis of the characteristics of the paragraphs in the observed laws of the selected countries. The analysis was carried out for three countries: Serbia, Montenegro and Croatia. Bearing in mind that these issues are subject of several different laws, the following acts were taken into account: the Law on Forests, the Law on Environmental Protection, the Law on Nature Conservation and the Law on National Parks. In all the observed countries, general entries are predominated (63.9%), while the entries with organizational (24.9%) and economic (11.2%) characters are much less common. When it comes to individual entries, ?Protection? is the most frequent, followed by ?Ecology? and ?Status / Function?, all of which belong to the group of general entries. In the group of entries with organizational character, ?Users? is dominant, and in the group of entries with economic character, the most important is ?Forestry?. When regulating protected area management issues, law drafters should be more focused on defining concrete solutions, which will improve work in practice, and thus satisfy the basic purpose of their adoption (protection of selected areas of social significance).
Highlights
Management of Protected Areas (PAs) and cooperation between protected area managers (PAMs) and stakeholders is today a major challenge, primarily due to the increasing need for using natural resources and meeting diverse interests
Bearing in mind that these issues are subject of several different laws, the following acts were taken into account: the Law on Forests, the Law on Environmental Protection, the Law on Nature Conservation and the Law on National Parks
In the texts of the analyzed laws, on the basis of query terms, 122 paragraphs were separated, and they defined a total of 508 queries, which is on average 4.16 entries per paragraph
Summary
Management of Protected Areas (PAs) and cooperation between protected area managers (PAMs) and stakeholders is today a major challenge, primarily due to the increasing need for using natural resources and meeting diverse interests. The above indicates that, in PAs’ management, there are various influences today, which include: “...political influence, which is reflected primarily through the process of adopting the legal framework of management; economic, which monitors the success of the management of individual PAs, and an environment that monitors the fulfilment of core functions of the PA” (Š u ti ć, Ru ž i ć, 2013). Such a situation poses a major challenge for PAMs, because the interests of these two concepts must be reconciled. They have to perform all the necessary activities (do business) predominantly with means that they must themselves achieve by some economic activity, using a given PA as a resource
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